Lindsay Mitchell

This is an excerpt from a column by Chris Trotter in the Financial Independent Review (The entire piece is at here at Kiwiblog); Keys speec...

Katherine Rich intimates she is backing Bradford's bill because she is a social liberal. Seems to me there are a truckload of people wh...

As NZ manufacturing takes another hit with F&P closing down one of its Auckland plants it's worth reflecting on not just the role o...

New Zealand's rate of child abuse isn't good but neither is it far worse than other comparable countries. The rate of notification...

In Australia a new family court process is reportedly producing better results all around. Instead of talking through lawyers in an evidenc...

While Simon Power has been fussing about the cost of locking prisoners up, especially in police cells , the cost of keeping youth locked u...

Despite being unscientific and non-representative this Stuff Poll exactly reflects the 2004 NZ Living Standards Survey; Do you think you ha...

Media release MORE MIGRANTS ON DPB AND SICKNESS BENEFITS Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Department of Labour research shows that despite the perce...

According to analysis of data from over 25 wealthy countries, women (counter to what they often claim) do not do more work than men. Inter...

So said our Revenue Minister, Peter Dunne, in response to an OECD economic report advising NZ to lower tax and sell more SOEs. I take it fro...

New Zealand's rankings according to the OECD 2005 So much for Labour's goal of getting NZ back into the top half of the OECD. We wer...

I can't agree with this statement from Katherine Rich; Mrs Rich said it did not matter if children missed two weeks from school to hang...

The NZ Herald's Simon Collins has uncovered another anomaly; The household labour force survey shows that the total unemployed aged 15 ...

According to this poll only 34% of us. I couldn't resist having a look because human beings fascinate me. At the moment my attention to...

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...