Lindsay Mitchell

Wait for this to hit the news. Just published at the Ministry of Social Development website, What Do Children Tell Us About Physical Punish...

I used to think smokers were the new lepers. But I am fast beginning to believe it is Christians. Which bothers me deeply. Not least becaus...

Yesterday Upper Hutt police embarked on a crime blitz . "If you have committed a crime, we are coming to get you. If you are planning t...

The US Supreme Court has upheld a ban on a certain abortion procedure which was previously legal where needed to protect the health of the...

This is too awful. Testing whether people are fit to have custody of their children based on the amount they drink. Yuck. Wait a minute. O...

CYFS staff members who belong to the PSA will be paid a bonus of $650. Last year CYF employed 2,670 full-time equivalents. I have no idea wh...

As an artist I always thought that, apart from complying with tax rules, I would escape the clutches of government regulation. Think again. ...

Just in from South America..... Rudy's last chance to save New York

This looks pretty impressive. According to news just released from Statistics New Zealand, Non-profit institutions employed 105,340 paid em...

Benson-Pope is constantly using the impact of the ageing population (the older age-bands are widening) as a reason for rising sickness and i...

From the Australian Centre for Independent Studies, Peter Saunders was recently in Wellington promoting a plan for people to opt out of the ...

We may be interested in tracking recipients of welfare but the government is not. Working For Families assistance allowed a beneficiary work...

Because women are waiting so long to see a specialist nobody noticed the Women's Health service had actually moved from Thames Hospital ...

There seems to be a viewpoint not represented here . I thought there were eight parties in Parliament.

Right now the state is paying people to produce the criminals of tomorrow. That is a fact. The Princes Trust has just published a report abo...

Yesterday I took the kids with me to spend the morning with my friend and her 4-year old daughter. The little girl, who has developed a mutu...

Media Release MINISTER MISTAKEN OVER GROWTH IN INCAPACITY BENEFITS Friday, April 13, 2007 In defence of growing incapacity benefit numbers, ...

A new survey about public perception of government performance conducted by Massey University, based on 1,350 responses from 18+ year-olds,...

In addition to the table below you can add the following welfare expenses (millions); social rehabilitation and compensation $145 department...