A quick word

No more door-to-door Girl Guide biscuits. No more Farmers big Santa. Yet Guy Fawkes lives on? Peter Culpan, Te Atatu Peninsula.

Perhaps when Shane Jones stops making personal threats against anyone who questions the desirability of moving the port to Whanga¯rei we can have a rational discussion. David Shand, Waikanae.

If we learn anything from the tragic deaths of Grace Millane and Amber-Rose Rush it is that we know very little about what is going on in the worlds of our young people.

Jock Mac Vicar, Hauraki.

The man who killed Grace Millane has been found guilty, yet he won’t be sentenced until February. Why the wait? A Forsyth, St Heliers.

Dianna Roberts complains that cars cannot access the car park on Mt Albert. There is ample parking in the street and a short walk to the entrance. If the trees get cut, there won’t be access to the area for at least a month.

Peter Cowley, Mt Roskill.

Lizzie Marvelly expressed the view that the media should limit their exposure of the “various rants” of Israel Folau. I heartily endorse the view. We may, however, differ on what constitutes a “rant”. John Strevens, Remuera.

“Men in our care” is for those in prison, we are told. This presumably means when I tell others my friend is “in care”, I will have to explain he is there with dementia not in custody for a crime. Ian Mckinnon, Wellington.

PM Jacinda Arden, who is also MP for Mount Albert, has been slow to proffer her opinion on the O¯ wairaka/Mt Albert occupation.

Brian Malone, Kingsland.

You do something wrong and you lose your freedom and the right to vote. At least that’s some justice for the victims.

Mike Baker, Tauranga.

Will the next coalition be decided by inmates? John Ladd, Papamoa.

It’s disturbing to see National re-framing voting not as a “duty”, but a “privilege”, which can be withheld from groups considered “not deserving”.

Doug Hannan, Mt Maunganui.

Auckland residents are having their mountains transformed permanently by an unelected board without consultation. To add insult, the residents are paying for it.

Kent Millar, Blockhouse Bay.

Could Lizzie Marvelly and everyone else stop using the word (if it is a word) “methinks”? “I think” would suffice. B Williams, Kohimarama.

Please give Leighton Smith the job of Weekend Herald

satirist. He is better than Braunias at exposing the ridiculous and the absurd in blinkered, ideological thinking. Paul Judge, Hamilton.