I grew up in Apartheid-era South Africa when the rallying cry was ‘One Man, One Vote'. I never expected I would be calling out this slogan in my adopted ‘free'... Read More

Re: Tauranga's rent-a-crowd. Every Tauranga City ratepayer should be extremely grateful to both Roger Rabbit and Steve Morris for pointing out how very corrupt [in... Read More

I was recently taken to Tauranga Hospital in the early hours of the morning with bad abdominal pains. I was so surprised to realise that Pathlab was working and... Read More

Council please could you answer this question. Each year we have autumn rains and some cause massive flooding on the roadside. When it happens we hear about the... Read More

Congratulations must be recorded twice to Roger Rabbits. Firstly, for his March 18 valid and appropriate comments on Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta's dictatorial... Read More

I am 86 years young, wear a hearing aid and are despairing of the people of Tauranga. We need to mount a campaign with a written petition to get our democractic... Read More

The decision to defer Tauranga City Council Local Body Elections until 2024 is Communistic, dictatorial and potentially illegal. The democratic rights of the local... Read More

It was a conflict of interest for Minister Mahuta to decide on council commissioners versus democracy and she should have removed herself from that process. She... Read More

The last two weeks we have seen no pickups for recycling and the radio has announced the council apologises but we cannot see an end in sight. Great. We get penalised... Read More

I want the Tauranga Council elections reinstated in time for the next council elections. Local people should be involved in local politics and this Labour Goverment... Read More

I note that some of the supporters of Minister Nanaia Mahuta's decision to further suspend Tauranga's democracy have remarked that her decision was based on ‘feedback'... Read More

Some controversial topics are unclear, and are hard for society. For example, Crimea wanted to join Russia, but Ukraine as a whole did not want it to leave. Should... Read More