Blogs

Green Party's income guarantee eliminates poverty

Green Goals with Josh Cole Green Party The Green Party has announced a new Income Guarantee for every New Zealander last Sunday. Our Income Guarantee will give everyone peace of mind that they can always afford the weekly shop,... Read More

Be a good ‘sitzpinkler’ and sit down

Jim Bunny Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz Pucker up the pelvic floor muscles, cos this is all about peeing. And the powder room powerhouse called S.S.S.S which could change the landscape of bathrooms or restrooms... Read More

Politics, music, Matariki – it’s all here

Winston Watusi Music Plus Here at the Watusi Country Club we tend to avoid politics; but sometimes, all you can say is 'Wow!' It has been possibly the weirdest 10 days I can remember in my lifetime for politicians around the... Read More

Delivering infrastructure a high priority for us

Todd Talks With Todd Muller National MP One of the more common complaints I hear in the Bay of Plenty electorate is about our city's lack of infrastructure and snarled up traffic. State Highway 2 should have been four... Read More

Let’s see and treat children as individuals

TAKING ACTION With Karen Chhour ACT List MP Should a child ever be taken out of a safe, loving foster home? What if the Government did it because the child's foster parents were the 'wrong' race? Could this really happen... Read More

Government delivers 134 additional frontline Police for the Bay of Plenty

Jan Tinetti Labour MP The Government has delivered on its commitment to put an extra 1800 cops on the front line, including an extra 134 police across the Bay of Plenty region with the graduation of Police wing 366 from the Royal... Read More

Bay of Plenty historic moments

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Bay of Plenty 40 Australia 16, at the Rotorua International Stadium on the first day of spring in 1982, still remains top of Bay of Plenty Rugby representative upsets. The... Read More

Building the cathedrals of Europe... the climate factor

Weather Eye with John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book "Climate Change:: A Realistic Perspective" . The following are extracts are from pages 203- 207. When... Read More

There are very positive times ahead of us...

Talking Politics With Sam Uffindell Tauranga City MP There are very positive times ahead for New Zealand. I can feel it! Last week's poll told us what we all knew already; the National Party is ready to take back government.... Read More

Supporting access to affordable, healthy food

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP During two years - from 2022/2023 to 2024/2025 - $24.8 million will continue supporting access to affordable, healthy, and culturally appropriate food. Helping maintain community food distribution... Read More

The one where AI takes over

Winston Watusi Music Plus Everyone seems to be talking about AI these days. Should we be afraid - very afraid - or is it just the focus du jour for the latest round of media hysteria? As I write this I have just read a piece from... Read More

It’s awfully warm in the kitchen

Jim Bunny Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz It was like a red rag to a bull... well, a rabbit in this case. Except we rabbits aren't sensitive to red - we are dichromatic, two colour vision, mainly green and blue,... Read More