Dear Editor With all of the talk about replacing vehicles that use fossil fuels with electric vehicles, there appears to be no real attempt to address where the additional electricity required to charge a greatly increased fleet of such vehicles will come from. Certainly not from renewable resources, as we
Dear Editor One thing we should remember is that the Climate Commission has promised that electricity prices will not increase. This is a nonsense claim for two reasons. The first reason is that a domestic price increase of about 30% is already locked in because of the high prices over
Dear Editor Rather than the very expensive exercise of building a harbour bridge in Auckland for cyclists and pedestrians, would it make sense to run a ferry to accommodate their needs? Call me simple, but it would be much cheaper to operate and could be actioned almost immediately. There … problem
Dear Editor I watched with great interest Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern defend the building of this bridge in Parliament. Where did she get the figures on who will use this bridge from? Did she pluck them out of thin air? She obviously doesn’t drive around Auckland with her eyes
Dear Editor I note the PM announced yesterday that petrol/diesel-powered cars will be phased out and replaced by EVs. I wonder if she has considered the environmental impact her decision will have on our planet as the demand for lithium and cobalt increases? Lithium-ion batteries are a crucial component
Dear Editor If Grant Robertson is the minister for sport and recreation the case for biological males pharmaceutically lowering their testosterone levels to compete against women is a foregone conclusion. Case in point. Hubbard who took female hormones later in life is on the Olympic selection committee for weight lifting
Dear Editor I live in Greenlane and watched as the Auckland Council took perfectly usable footpaths and turned them into cycle lanes. These footpaths were used daily by walkers walking to and from Cornwall Park. They were also shared together with cyclists who respected each other’s right to use
Dear Editor A lovely photo from the 31st of May with one of the presidential candidates, who was born and brought up in Morocco, surrounded by young Israelis. Does not look one bit like apartheid South Africa. I mean in reality, apart from the black people in the photo, it’
Dear Editor A work colleague of mine was talking to the local E Tu union rep Red Middlemiss. He was saying some local gang members (don’t know if they are Black Power or Mongrel Mob) were getting paid 100k per annum government funding to run counselling services. I don’
Dear Editor I have never in my 72 years seen a Prime Minister such as Jacinda Ardern. This is the same lady who famously said, “I will govern for all New Zealanders,” a statement about bringing the country together. Now she has set about dividing the country in a racial
Dear Editor Would someone please explain to me why, when we are still being told to wear a mask in many situations, our Prime Minister moves in for face-to-face contact when greeting Scott Morrison on his arrival from Australia? Is a hand-shake no longer appropriate? Also, the Prime Minister refused
Dear Editor On Sunday’s RNZ show Media Watch there was an item about an article on a Waffen SS volunteer who lied to Immigration when he came to New Zealand after the war. The item was talking about the article in the June edition of North and South magazine.
Dear Editor Travel plans and bookings for so-called Diversity training has been cancelled thanks to Judith Collins kicking up a stink in parliament about kids apologizing for their white privilege. Thank you, Judith. Keep at it! This ideology needs to stop. We need more complaints about it. Complaining DOES work.
Dear Editor Buoyed by some pretty dodgy opinion polls, the muppets currently running the country are helter-skelter galloping us down the path to their brave new (old) world where the fairies play and we are benevolently governed under a feudal system by a handful of hereditary iwi elite. As we
Dear Editor I am absolutely appalled and disgusted by Te Hurihanganui and the clear aim of the Ministry of Education to instil apartheid in New Zealand. I have seen how the playbook of favouring one race over all others (at the expense of democracy) has played out in many other
Dear Editor What are we not being told about the sudden, unexplained death of health executive Pauline Hanna on 5 April 2021? The news media is reporting today (15 May) that police are talking to a masseuse visited by the husband of the deceased. They have also spoken to the
