Lindsay Mitchell

This is a comment from a reader on Krimsonlake's blog ; The problem with trying to deal with the problem of people taking advantage of a...

You don't read much about the Japanese welfare state . But this article describes the problem they are running into with low fertility -...

Just watching an interview with Steve Maharey and Wayne Mapp. Maharey has caused a stink by giving a $200 donation to a fund which was set u...

The Welfare State We're In discusses a recommendation from UK Labour MP David Blunkett (ex Minister for Work and Pensions) that young s...

Just wondering if Nathan Fenton, accused of murdering 17 year-old Mairina Dunn is related to these two.

The Scotsman reports, Newborn babies are more than twice as likely to die when their mothers choose to have a Caesarean section, compared w...

Reason reports, The Chinese government is concerned about people singing risqué songs in karaoke bars. So it is rolling out a program in te...

The perfect job for a man who can only count to five? Put him in charge of a newly created billion-dollar Super Ministry.

The following is an excerpt from a piece by Jane Kelsey. It's about child poverty and the government's refusal to pay the In Work p...

Ruatoria. I tried to do some research about Ruatoria a couple of years ago but I couldn't reach a conclusion based on the information I ...

Having made an oral submission opposing the establishment of the Families Commission, every so often I have a look at their website to see ...

I referred yesterday to an article by Rob Mcleod about Maori unemployment. Here is a link . Today the general unemployment rate is down to 3...

The Greens and the Maori Party should heed new research which estimates that an increase in yearly benefits of 1,000 euros $NZ 1,976) will i...

An article in the DomPost business section today, by Rob McLeod, reminds us that when general unemployment was over eight percent there was ...

I once had a run-in with Phillip Field over the Social Services Select Committee table. He became highly agitated about my wanting to abolis...

A few of you were interested in my letter to Barnardos CE Murray Edridge. Here is the reponse;

Following on from the last post, in 1888 another character toured the country having a look at the poor. He was Duncan McGregor, the Inspect...

That's the title of an extraordinary article in today's DomPost. It makes for compelling reading. The writer, Martin van Beynen and...

I didn't know my husband read gossip columns. He telling me something passably interesting about Rodney Hide being spotted craning his n...

One of these is Goldie Hawn. Who are the other two?