Was the ballot to select the replacement leader of the Labour Party secret or not? The Party seems to have started off still in conflict. First media reports hours... Read More

Voices that came callingAcross the battlefield siteCome join us in peaceOn Christmas Eve nightWith hope and friendship in their heartsAs they climbed aloft the cold... Read More

That ambiguous celebration each year is brainwashing young children against their will. Fancy telling them that a big fat red man with a white beard will come down... Read More

Mount Hot Pools horrific cost overruns: Appalling news, in fact it is outrageous! So, now we know the projected cost of the remedial work was only a guesstimate.... Read More

I have never witnessed such a shambles. The antics of the Grey Power Board members at the meeting last Friday, 9 December should have been enough to convince the... Read More

We live in a supposed democracy and have the right to have an elected MP.....as we are regularly told, as if it was some kind of unique privilege. It should therefore... Read More

Thank you Rogers Rabbit for your unfailing sense of the ridiculous, which manages to keep me sane during the media circus we call the General Election. Due to MMP... Read More

Is This a Brighter Future? I am a volunteer for both the Red Cross, and St John and have been doing this for many years, I have recently been in the need to have... Read More

An area similar to the one Ann Graeme was writing about in last week's 'the Sun” was inspected by me this week in the Waikareao Estuary. The tide had partially... Read More

In reply to Chris Jenkins' repeated attack on what EM Izett's writes, I would like to point out that whatever research you have done on the earth's continental land... Read More

So what's to be done about the debt on Route K, cause of much wailing and gnashing of teeth?Discouraging users by raising the toll charge? No way!It has been obvious... Read More

Again the Mayor and council have let ratepayers down with the bailing out of the company ruining Baypark, was it not the mayor who told us when we bought the park... Read More