A quick word
I believe Australia has every right to deport foreign criminals. Our Government would do better to stand up for other, more deserving, people around the world.
D. Adams, Mt Albert.
The worst thing that could happen to Australia would be for Bill Shorten to become Prime Minister. Yet the Government is seemingly doing everything they can to get him elected. Strange place.
Phil Chitty, Albany.
The primary objective must be to reduce crime, not to reduce the prison population.
Rex Beer, Manly.
Who benefits from the Skypath and the added $370 million extracted from taxpayers for bikes — zero if you live in Rodney where most roads are still unsealed. Larry Mitchell, Puhoi.
In typical Labour fashion, this Government has attacked the wrong end of the wealth divide. As Winston Churchill said: “You don’t make the poor rich by making the rich poor”.
Greg Moir, Kerikeri.
New bus routes make it timely to remind Auckland Transport a committee is a decisionmaking body designed by a camel.
Peter Milner, Ellerslie.
Wellington has got something that Auckland doesn’t have, an architect with a sense of humour.
Gary Hollis, Mellons Bay. It is encouraging to learn the Government wholeheartedly endorses Sir John Key’s vision for walking and cycle ways throughout New Zealand.
A. J. Petersen, Kawerau.
A correspondent this week chastised a TV announcer for the correct pronunciation of Taupo (Two pour or Toe paw). He would be better to direct his criticism at media announcers (mainly radio) whose enunciation has descended to levels where for example, you never hear “t” pronounced correctly. Brett Hewson, Parnell.
Shane Jones is proposing to fund a memorial to the 28th Battalion on the Treaty grounds at Waitangi. If there is going to be a memorial to fallen soldiers there it should be for all the fallen not just one battalion. Arthur Moore, Ex RNZE.
Put the motorway at Takanini back as it was before this mess started. Straighten the road, eliminate the ridiculous convoluted path cars have to take, fill the potholes, put the limit back to 100 and try to forget a nightmare initiated by idiots.
D. Sapiane, Whangaparaoa.
To attempt to pronounce a Maori place name correctly, even if one gets it wrong, is to show respect to the language and its people. To mispronounce is to unconsciously or deliberately insult the language and its people. Tony Forster, Mt Eden.