Dear Editor When you make an appointment, or even just turn up for the vaccine they look you up on the National Register. So, before you are jabbed, they check all your details to ensure that they are correct. When you return for jab number two they go through all
Dear Editor May I say how delighted I am that the Government is going down the He Puapua route and co-governance. It will remind me of the old country- Great Britain. I refer, of course, to the House of Lords, which represented the land and capital-owning aristocracy mostly from the
Dear Editor I want to talk about hate. And how we articulate it. My sister won’t give me the remote, I hate her. The emotion is transient, almost meaningless, harmless. A criminal murdered a family member, raped my daughter, poisoned my dog: the hate is visceral, dark, and ultimately
Dear Editor I ended up in hospital in 2018 because I could not afford to see a doctor. Seeing a dentist is impossible. Cancer of the mouth then becomes a real risk from rotting teeth. What is NOT known but what is commonly assumed, is that if one is unemployed
Dear Editor Part-Maori Rawiri Waititi has dredged up the hoary tale of how the tribes ‘lost’ all but 4% of the land they once owned. Anybody less ignorant of our history than he appears to be knows that most of the 96% was sold eagerly by the tribal chiefs in
Dear Editor It’s easy to see that this Labour Government is in charge of the Covid vaccinations as the easy way to organise them was ignored and, as per usual, a complete mess has emerged. Like Jacinda ‘I will fix child poverty’ Ardern and Megan ‘I will fix the
Dear Editor The Maori language will never be part of my life. I’m a fifth-generation New Zealander of European extraction. I attended my schooling at state-funded New Zealand institutions and the Maori language was never taught at any of them. Therefore the language is basically foreign to me. I’
Dear Editor I would like to thank you as one, or maybe the only, voice calling this wayward government to account. I am of the opinion that we are being lied to, or at the very least, our government are slaves to groupthink regarding the pandemic and the way forward.
Dear Editor I can see why He Puapua was kept hidden from New Zealand First. It was because it could have changed the election. Winston Peters, Judith Collins and David Seymour would have been all over it. In my mind, Jacinda Ardern and her government should now be taken to
Dear Editor He Puapua is racist pandering propaganda to promote part-Maori as victims with entitlement to equal outcomes, not equal opportunity. By promoting separate government for part-Maori, Labour seeks to divide the nation into factions and then gather the factions together for the benefit of Labour–not for the benefit
Dear Editor I would like to draw your attention to the latest ‘war’ occurring throughout New Zealand. The war is against anyone who is non-Maori, and especially if they have a small family business. It started off with Lee Williams, the blogger Cross the Rubicon, who has been taken down
Dear Editor I watched with interest the Prime Minister saying she was pleased with the way the vaccination rollout is going. How can she be pleased when we are one of the slowest of any OECD country? I suppose when you look at her and her government’s achievements something
Dear Editor You really do have to wonder at the inability of journalists and opposition MPs to ask questions of this government. Here’s an example: Friday a week ago during Checkpoint with Lisa Owen on RNZ, Ashleigh Bloomfield said Covid-19 vaccinations were now up to 50,000 a week.
Dear Editor Did readers note TVNZ’s blatant effort the other evening to attach more ‘white privilege’ onto the government’s official apology for the 1970s Pasifika dawn raids? TVNZ’s longtime puppet to the socialists, announcer Simon Dallow, said: “And most of the overstayers at the time were from
Dear Editor I am going to be sitting by my phone most of the day expecting a call from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, after her apology to people who were in this country illegally. I was born left-handed and in my first years at school was strapped daily for being
Dear Editor Can we show a little forethought and practicality? Please? Has anyone thought about it? If all cars were electric and were caught up in a three-hour traffic jam they would all have dead batteries! Then what? Not to mention that there is virtually no heating in an electric
