Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

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As a child I was utterly captured by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I too wanted to find Narnia. I looked in wardrobes for it. Yester...

Petrol thieves get the nod

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Gas station "drive-offs" are getting more and more common. Hamilton police have sent a clear message to would-be thieves with this...

Fascinating first-time insight

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The recently passed Care of Children Bill allowed some media access to the controversial Family Court. Here , for the first time, a report o...
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Sharks; the new "terrorists"?

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According to a journalist writing in today's NZ Herald, "A 'monster' white shark in the Manukau Harbour could be the same ...
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Friday, January 27, 2006

Discrimination against the childless

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The Working for Families extension kicks in from April 1, 2006. I am all in favour of tax cuts but across the board. And many families will...

More stupid sheep

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Look at what these dipsticks, Residents Action Movement (or appropriately RAM) are saying about road tolls. "Tolls are a regressive tax...
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Has Chris Trotter been burgled?

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Chris Trotter's DomPost column today tackles how we should think about and approach crime and punishment. He describes how the Marxists...
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New family job-share policy

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Now this is a great idea, being trialled by McDonalds in Britain and so far, so good. New rules allow family members, grandparents, siblings...
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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Mother admits allowing child abuse

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Mother admits allowing child abuse is a fairly innocuous headline. Initially she denied allowing the abuse. Now she admits it. I thought I w...
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Cullen does a "Danny Crane"

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Finance Minister, Michael Cullen told Paul Holmes, on NewstalkZB this morning, that unemployment would rise by 20,000 by year-end. This has...
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Death of the West

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David Farrar is discussing international population predictions made in "Death of the West" by Mark Steyn, based on current fertil...
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Tax as an investment?

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From Colin James' NZ Herald column of January 24; Labour spent much effort in 2004 on its "brand" to encapsulate its "val...

The Green Paper

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The UK's welfare reform Green Paper has been released. It's a fizzer - what you would expect from a Labour, or, for that matter, a C...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Does Peter Dunne know what he thinks?

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As read on Scoop ; Dunne cool on 'radical' child check-up proposal Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 11:33 am Press Release: United Future...

Snap

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Having just commented on the link between benefits and the rate of single parenthood, hot off the press comes this news from Scotland. Numbe...
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Five most constipated people in the bible

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1/ Cain who wasn't Abel 2/ Noah who sat on the ark for 40 days and 40 nights and passed nothing but water 3/ King Soloman who sat on the...
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State of our Welfare Nation (1)

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This is a popular time of year for party leaders to deliver "state of the nation" speeches so I thought I might look at the state ...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Coming to a town near you......

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This one is probably the sleeper story of the day. New regulations will mean that an estimated 1,000 Wellington buildings will require stren...

Thinking with no future

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Sue Bradford: "It's time employers started to pay their fair share and accepted that wages should be high enough to live on. The ta...
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"Forget Them vs Us Attitude"

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The following is an editorial from today's Gisborne Herald. The importance of Iain Gillies' message cannot be over-stated, but it d...
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Lindsay Mitchell
Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits at Wellington, New Zealand, galleries.
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