Letters: Transtasman travel, taxing landlords, former MPs adn St John Ambulance
7 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Might the comings and goings between Australia and New Zealand cancel each other out, economics wise? Photo / James D. Morgan, Getty Images, File
Might the comings and goings between Australia and New Zealand cancel each other out, economics wise? Photo / James D. Morgan, Getty Images, File
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Quid pro quo My limited grasp of economics may be the reason I can t grasp how $1 billion worth of bubbly Australian tourism can benefit New Zealand if we inspire the export of $1 billion worth of Kiwis in their direction?
Letters: Housing policy, Police Ten 7, 501 deportations and Sideswipe
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Letters: Mistakes in Covid response, lockdown fatigue and Auckland weather
4 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
8 minutes to read
Should Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologise to the Botany KFC worker who claims she has been unfairly criticised? Photo / Mark Mitchell, File
NZ Herald
Piling on criticism
The demand from the KFC rule breaker that the Prime Minister apologises to her personally, because she thought the messaging wasn t clear enough tells you everything you need to know the how and the why certain people think the rules don t apply to them.
Was this person in a coma for the past month ? Their sibling attended a hot spot of infection, Papatoetoe High School. This would have been plastered over all social media. 99.9 per cent of affected people understood this and went home and isolated.
Letters: Democracy and fascism, border exemptions and the Cook Islands bubble
19 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
9 minutes to read
The United States of America was a flawed democracy before President Donald Trump took office. Photo / Evan Vucci, AP, File
The United States of America was a flawed democracy before President Donald Trump took office. Photo / Evan Vucci, AP, File
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Not all equal
Correspondent Craig Clark (NZ Herald, January 18) has commented on how even though the US is a democracy, that it almost ended up with a dictator called Donald Trump.
However, he seems to be assuming all democracies enjoy the same level of democracy. There are 75 democracies in the world, but only 22 of them are classified as full democracies and the US is not included as a full democracy.
Letters: Restrict growth, beach pollution, America s Cup vessels and Whangamatā teenagers
11 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
9 minutes to read
Automation, technology, and expert skills are the keys to improving New Zealand lot, says one writer. Photo / 123rf
Automation, technology, and expert skills are the keys to improving New Zealand lot, says one writer. Photo / 123rf
NZ Herald
Stable population
It is time to re-think the notion that we can improve our well being as a nation by aggressively growing our population. The evidence is everywhere that this strategy is simply not working.
If we want to increase our well-being, we need to learn to do more with fewer hands by investing in automation, technology, and expert skills. Using our scarce resources to build more infrastructure and another million houses over the next 30 years is going to get us nowhere.
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