Lindsay Mitchell

Tariana Turia believes immigration is disenfranchising Maori. The Maori Party has fielded many calls from constituents, who believe that th...

From today's DomPost; Chris Trotter has a dilemma. He fawningly approves of the Maori Party, loathes National and is disenchanted with ...

This augers well for a peaceful Waitangi Day. I wonder if David Rankin watched Hone Harawira on TV last night (link in post below) promisin...

At last! My movie (well, I think I have about 1/100th share in it:-)) is having its New Zealand Premiere in Auckland on Waitangi Day. If you...

On Tuesday I made these comments about the Maori Party. I said they were making policy on the hoof and there was division amongst their MPs...

The DomPost ran a poll on whether people thought John Key would be the next PM. Just over half of the votes come from Parliamentary workers...

Under Working for Families some families will receive back as much as they pay in tax (some more, some less) which is why it can't stric...

New research from the country which isn't afraid to ask the hard questions. It finds, child maltreatment roughly doubles the probabili...

NZ Herald political columnist, John Armstrong described reaction to John Key's speech as "ho hum". Nicely put. I would descri...

This really is silly season. Usually about once a year all the political parties start clamouring about welfare. It's been Orewa in the ...

Update; The NZ Herald has used these statistics to lead in today's editorial . The level of unpaid child support in New Zealand is nothi...

If you have read today's SST article on John Key you'll know he is sort of...kind of... backtracking....on what he said about the D...

MAORI PARTY SAY DPB PART OF THEIR CULTURE Saturday, January 27, 2007 "It is astonishing to hear the Maori Party calling for work-for-t...

Most of the friends I grew up with have grown up kids. The advantage is their kids have usually learnt some tact. Mine haven't. "I...

A new study shows that it isn't much more costly to eat healthy food than unhealthy. We needed a study to tell us that? The guinea pig ...

That's the headline in a DomPost story today. The DomPost got figures under the OIA showing 600 people had continued to receive social ...

Health funding is a huge yawn. But it's one of the biggest political problems the world over. Now Germany has come up with a novel way ...

I have never blogged about the Jayden Headley case because it saddens me to see the child dragged through the court and splashed all over th...

According to Radio Live, John Key is at Ratana telling Maori they have "special status" in this country. When government accords o...

Australia's Productivity Commission has found that half of the 900,000 men outside the workforce and not trying to get in, are on disab...