Letters to the editor: Opportunity to improve representation

Rawiri Waititi is a candidate in Waiariki. Photo / File

The Rotorua Daily Post series on the candidates' views shows the voters of Waiariki now have a great opportunity to improve our political representation.

A vote for Tāmati Coffey is, in my view, really a wasted vote because he will return to Parliament anyway on the Labour list.

But a vote for Rawiri Waititi, of the Maori Party, will mean a voice for Maori.

(Abridged)

D A McPherson
Rotorua

Evocative image

I wonder why the photo of Judith Collins at prayer in St Thomas' Church evokes for me a memory of Donald Trump brandishing a large Bible near the White House earlier this year?

Jackie Evans
Rotorua

No guarantees

Helen Clark lends her significant political weight to support the End of Life Choice Bill and points out the safeguards built into it.

She does not, however, offer any guarantees.

No one can guarantee that the safeguards will withstand the test of time and not allow more liberty of choice.

None of our leaders has guaranteed that funding for palliative care will not be reduced so that more pressure is placed on the terminally ill to accept euthanasia as the preferred option.

No one can guarantee that New Zealand won't follow the same pattern as other countries that have legalised euthanasia but history almost guarantees that we will.

There is only one way to guarantee that won't happen.

Ian Young
Papamoa