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Letters: The folly of foreign investment

OPINION: 'This is madness on a grand scale.'

Letters: Seymour’s Polkinghorne police interference

OPINION: 'Police investigations must surely be free of any such political intervention.'

Letters: Does NZ need a new Thanksgiving Day holiday?

OPINION: 'New Zealanders have much to be proud of and thankful for.'

Letters: Many people are starting the new year in debt

OPINION: The Prime Minister needs to set the standards in Parliament.

Letters: Ghettoisation of state houses

OPINION: There has been another blow to the Kiwi ideal of an egalitarian society.

Opinion: Beneficiary sanctions unfairly target vulnerable Kiwis

OPINION: Is it time for New Zealand to adopt a presidential structure?

NCEA standards: Are schools teaching to the test?

OPINION: NCEA's common assessments should reflect true literacy and maths skills.

Letters: National’s evidence-based promises unravel

OPINION: Some decisions, like cancelling ferries, defy evidence.

Letters: New Health Minister Simeon Brown needs to work with haste

OPINION: 'Fix primary care and wait times in ED would drop dramatically.'

Letters: Trump tries to turn back the tide of reality, history

OPINION: 'Trump surrounds himself with an oligarchy of very rich would-be autocrats.'

Letters: Reti not to blame for ailing health system

OPINION: 'Trump is many things, but a great orator is certainly not one of them.'

Letters: A sorry state of US affairs

OPINION: 'Our Government believes that economic growth is the cure-all.'

Letters: Proposed dog rules don’t go far enough; Reti an easy target

OPINION: "[My dog and I] have been attacked ... and a local rider knocked off her horse.'

Letters: Transport reshuffle – Bishop's big chance to change course

OPINION: 'Higher speed limits and more roads are not the solution, they are the problem.'

Letters: Look overseas for hot house solutions

OPINION: 'We're unintentionally creating heat traps in our pursuit of modern aesthetics.'

Letters: Sport has become big business; empower police by arming them

OPINION: 'Unfortunately we can’t choose our neighbours - it’s just the luck of the draw.'