Letters to the Editor

Te Papa: Their place or our place?

Someone recently described the meaning of Te Papa not as ‘Our Place' but as ‘Their Place' - and ‘Their' being Maori. In an article on Te Papa in... Read More

Seeing red over blue-eye myth

I'm so angry after hearing what a teacher in a South Island school told his/her pupils: 'Blue-eyed students are more intelligent than brown-eyed students”.What... Read More

Lacking sound management

Is this prominently just a nation of Maori with a few Europeans involved? Most of our overseas advertising indicates that. Surely there are other ways, too, of introducing... Read More

Syria

The real culprits are the manufacturers, wherever they may be situated in the world. Outraged governments should shut down the factories in their own countries and... Read More

Election Meeting

A Tauranga City Council election meeting is on at Tauranga Girls' College Hall this Tuesday September 10 at 7.30pm.The Citizens Advocacy Tauranga needs a good public... Read More

Mary Brooks

Mary Brooks (letters August 23) destroys her credibility when she says that Treaty settlements have cost the taxpayer $39 billion. She is contradicted by official... Read More

Mary Brooks letter

Re: Wake up NZ, Mary Brooks letter in The Weekend Sun (August 23), who continues to marginalize Maori throughout New Zealand. She was very critical of our Fairy... Read More

The Foreshore and Seabed

The whole issue of ‘The Foreshore and Seabed' would never have arisen had the true Tiriti o Waitangi, the one signed by the Chiefs, been correctly interpreted... Read More

What is the land status currently?

Tagging onto Mount Domain reserve try-on, we now have the Matakana Island Panepane Point kite flying. This is nothing to do with cultural significance, grievance... Read More

Maori Party

Peter Sharples from the Maori Party is calling on New Zealanders to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi and to remind people that they are the Tangata Whenua. He goes on... Read More

Treaty of Waitangi

We are continually having it forced down our throats that the Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1841, is the founding document of New Zealand. However, I beg to differ.... Read More

We need good rail too

I am totally amazed that Auckland is spending $100 million on getting universal tickets for public transport. Where is the common sense? All the hype about the... Read More