Letters to the Editor

Custodial carve-up ‘futile’

Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft and the Law Commission seek better asset deals for the custodial parent (often opposed), who they allege ‘loses out',... Read More

Pay rise for MPs on cards?

Our acting Prime Minister announced there are no funds for the nurses pay rise. I wonder if there are any funds available for the MPs pay rise this year, which of... Read More

Join nurses on picket line

Re ‘Money for nurses there' (The Weekend Sun, July 13). I agree that money to fund nurses is available with some clever accounting that most proficient governments... Read More

Bureaucratic top-heaviness

I have a lot of sympathy for the striking nurses. One of their major problems with 26 DHBs around the country is the colossal bureaucratic top-heaviness that goes... Read More

You get what you voted for

When you increase the minimum wage you push up business costs and businesses are forced to increase prices. When you cut taxes people get more in their pocket to... Read More

Jury out on climate change

I wish our politicians would stop assuming everyone other than they are idiots. No, Simon Bridges, we're not so stupid as to believe that ‘climate change is... Read More

Keeping it meaningful

What am I going to do when I retire? This is a real problem for people who are still active and need to have meaningful lives. Sunrise Lions Club has the answer.... Read More

Social Credit survived test of time

The demise of The Opportunities Party is another example of a rich entrepreneur having a go at politics without any real commitment to a philosophy or core policy. Gareth... Read More

Support for Anihera

Anihera Zhou Black's courageous exposure of the dark side of her late husband's life should be cheered for its selfless thoughts for those persons who have been... Read More

Cultural differences respected

B Johnson (SunLive, July 6) accuses the government of having a Maori-slanted agenda. In my view B Johnson has a Pakeha-slanted agenda, so that anything not Pakeha-slanted... Read More

Traffic troubles

The traffic problems around town should have eased this week. It is school holidays and it is raining. Council decisions have caused many of the problems. Regional... Read More

Money there for nurses

Finance Minister Grant Robertson's claim that any new pay offer to nurses 'would have to be made using funds already allocated, as there's no more” is... Read More