Opinion

Kata: Strong Winds

2022 is the year to find your voice

The good news is 2021 did bring out the vocalisation of people who took their democratic right to the streets and marched and protested the decisions of the governments trying to protect them, writes Ruta Mave.

What does prison say about our society?

Our society is one where we see people through the lens of what we believe they deserve and what we also believe they do not, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Kata: Preventative Medicine

LETTERS: ‘Prison life is not luxurious’

Dear Editor, in response to Jacqueline Ngatai-Cowan’s letter in CI News January 8, 2022. Firstly, I want to thank her for her concerns regarding her partner’s situation at Arorangi Prison and his medical condition.

Kata: Masking up

LETTERS: Are we prepared for Covid?

Dear Editor, talk about putting out a message that is guaranteed to get some backlash from social media (‘We are ready, prepared and protected’, January 11, 2022).

Kata: Vaccine Certificate

LETTERS: Solving labour shortage problem

Dear Editor, maybe an agreement of higher wages for an agreed period, to then be reduced back to normal with an incentive programme to increase the wage back to the higher rate agreed upon (No immediate fix for local labour shortage, January 10, 2022).

Kata: Prisoners

LETTERS: Losing our Covid free status

Dear Editor, Let’s think this through for a second (Reduced health clinics when border reopens, January 6, 2022).

The ‘new year, new you’ pressure

It’s now 2022 and it’s around about this time we start to hear the sound of breaking resolutions, writes Ruta Mave.

Kata: Mandatory Masks

2022 – the year of decisions

The content of our character is a choice, and day by day we make choices some good some not so good, because choice is the core of what it is to be human, but let us also be clear our choices will always have an effect on others.

Even the smallest splash can make a large ripple

Te Ipukarea Society intern Itirangi Pennycook writes about her experience with the local environmental group.

LETTERS: A humble plea for help

Dear Editor, I’m not the kind of person who writes letters to the editor, but at this point, I don’t know what else to do. I’m writing this with the hope that someone who reads it will be able to help me or at least point me in the right direction.

Kata: Church talk

New Year, New Resolution

New Year is traditionally a time for most of us to make resolutions for the year, writes Bishop Paul Donoghue of the Catholic Church.

Concern over police handling of arrested citizens in custody

Dear Editor, police handling of arrested citizens held in custody cruel and shameful.

Kata: Illegal Firearm