To the point

I ENJOYED the article by Riley Kennedy on the ADJO Cafe (ODT, 4.9.21) and applaud the owners for their initiative to start a gallery to help support local artists. However, the article was let down when the picture showed a barista making coffee without a mask on which is required under Alert Level 3.

Otematata

GIVEN some of the extraordinarily selfish and illadvised responses from some to Covid19 containment measures, perhaps it is time to retitle and revise the Human Rights Act along with the title and role of the Human Rights Commissioner. I would suggest ‘‘Human Rights and Responsibilities’’.

Musselburgh

YVETTE Williams would have been smiling down from heaven as Anna Grimaldi executed the perfect hitchkick she had perfected on the St Kilda sanddunes before her goldmedal victory in Melbourne 1956.

Musselburgh

PRIME Minister Jacinda Ardern was not prepared to move the South Island out of lockdown Level 3, when there might still be undetected cases of Covid19 in the community. Yet she knowingly allowed a terrorist to walk the streets of Auckland, when her majority Government had multiple opportunities to legislate for his lockup and/or deportation.

East Taieri

YOUR jaundiced interpretation (ODT, 31.8.21) of the reason why the Prime Minister opens her 1pm press conferences with good news may be well offbeam. You say this is part of her ‘‘political spin’’. Did it not occur to you that her intention may be to keep our spirits up during a time of crisis?

Port Chalmers

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