The owning of the past cruelties of colonialism is not a ''cancel-culture'' movement but a cultural evolution that we would do well to embrace as the social welfare of us all depends upon it.
The smile you send out returns to you.
Richard O'Brien
Katikati
Wrong place
On April 13, reporter Michael Neilson reported that emissions are still too high.
His report states that "from 1990 to 2020 gross emissions increased by 21 per cent".
This should clearly be of great concern to all New Zealanders.
Note, however, that the population of New Zealand increased from 3.33 million in 1990 to 5.08 million in 2020 - a 54 per cent increase.
Maybe we are looking in the wrong place for the solution.
Wallace Roome
Ohauiti
Unemployed too soft
I joined the New Zealand forest service as a woodsman school trainee aged 15 in 1965.
We lived in camps and hostels, learned to look after ourselves and worked hard.
Most of the work was preparing land for tree planting, pruning, felling and nursery work - in all weather.
To say we should get the unemployed to do this work is a waste of time.
Most are too soft and tired and wouldn't last one day out there - and who's going to supervise them, get them out of bed, and hold their hand?
This would cost more than having them on the dole.
It's a great industry and we need real people out there doing it.
Chris Taylor
Rotorua
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