Short & sweet

On repentance

I have the perfect solution to the overcrowding of our prisons: we should follow the Pope's example and make our criminals apologise in public for their crimes and then let them go home.

Gerald Payman, Mt Albert.

On post-match

All Blacks-Ardern-publicity stunt?

A. J. Petersen, Kawerau.

On leak

It’s time Mr Bridges shut up and put up. As a taxpayer I am fed up with the waste of money spent investigating political egos. Time to stop all this rubbish. Lead or leave. Nigel Bufton, Pauanui.

On centre-right

A question for Fran O'Sullivan. If all the world's democracies managed to vote into power right-of-centre governments (as advocated by Sir John Key) would the world be a better place? Would another billion people be lifted out of deep poverty? Would the planet be a few steps closer to irreversible climate change?

B. Darragh, Auckland Central.

On pronunciation

I live in Toe Paw and still can't roll the name off my tongue the way our beautiful Ma¯ ori people can. No different to other country’s place names and their citizens’ pronunciations of them. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Glenn Forsyth, Taupo.

On test

At last, a close result at Eden Park. Wallabies 12, Beauden Barrett 30. Enough said. Allan Gyde, Tauranga.