TO THE POINT
Greg Pollock, regional council public transport GM, says there are simply not the people out there willing to take up a bus driver role, even at $22 an hour. If they’re still not attracting people then there must be something wrong with the employment conditions, employer and work culture do you think.
Bernard Jennings, Island Bay
Assuming only really bad people go to prison, denying prisoners the right to vote seems logical and obvious. Isn’t deprivation what prison is all about? If so, then surely the loss of voting rights must be fairly minor on the deprivation scale, especially compared to the the greatest deprivation of all, that of being locked up. Murray Eggers, Paraparaumu
Are kids becoming more mature and independent these days; or the other way around? Because I read there is another push to lower the voting age to 16; but I seem to remember a recent increase to the age at which ‘‘kids’’ would remain in the care of the state from that age of 16 to, I believe, 18. A call to reduce voting ages inevitably accompanies a Labour Government seeking additional votes. If we acquiesce on this point, in a few years the suggestion will be that 10-year-olds should have the vote. Eventually babes in diapers will be in the poling booths.
Bryan Forrest, Nelson
Government Statistician Liz MacPherson has set a good and honourable example by resigning in the wake of the failure of the census. Will the chief executive of the Greater Wellington Regional Council, Greg Campbell, follow her example in the wake of the bus debacle and also submit his resignation? Both CEOs have publicly taken responsibility for their own and their organisations’ failures. One is going. Why not the other? John Bishop, Karori
It’s ironic, isn’t it, that Australia (which has so much sunlight energy and such a huge area on which to collect it) should be so stubbornly sticking to coal as an energy source instead of switching to the solar resource? Its government deserves the growing ire of Pacific nations. Stuart Reid, Lower Hutt
If all pro-abortionists had had done to them what they advocate for other unborn children, the debate on this subject would have long since ceased.
David Bond, Ngaio