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Letters: Mistakes in Covid response, lockdown fatigue and Auckland weather 4 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 8 minutes to read Should Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologise to the Botany KFC worker who claims she has been unfairly criticised? Photo / Mark Mitchell, File NZ Herald Piling on criticism The demand from the KFC rule breaker that the Prime Minister apologises to her personally, because she thought the messaging wasn't "clear enough" tells you everything you need to know the how and the why certain people think the rules don't apply to them. Was this person in a coma for the past mont...

Advertisement Transport Minister Andrew Constance pushed for his top bureaucrat to be sacked after his department did not follow an instruction to clear all trees within 40 metres of either side of all major highways in NSW. Mr Constance issued a ministerial direction to then-Transport for NSW secretary Rodd Staples directing his department to carry out the mass land clearing of millions of trees along “all state managed highways” in February 2020, after the Black Summer bushfires. The Princes Highway between the towns of Bodalla and Mogo in January 2020. Credit:Kate Geraghty Mr Staples ...