Lindsay Mitchell

Media Release MINISTER CONTRADICTED BY OWN MINISTRY Friday, May 18, 2007 "The Minister for Social Development, David Benson-Pope, has b...

Social Security and welfare spending is projected to increase by 25% by 2011. This is the biggest increase across the various spending areas...

I now have some official statistics from Sweden relating to children in state care. Unfortunately they only arrived this morning. Remember t...

National Deputy Leader, Bill English, makes this statement in the DomPost today; Our prospects of climbing up the ladder (OECD) in the next ...

Good on Audrey Young for properly describing ACT's opposition to the anti-smacking bill; The Act MPs come from a libertarian tradition ...

Media release QUESTION-MARK OVER YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Minister of Social Development, David Benson-Pope, today claimed ...

Oh Golly. What fun. Families Day. Today . When government gifted us with the Families Commission I confess, I was a little skeptical about w...

United Future MP, Judy Turner, has decided not to support the bill despite the amendment. This is because she says the 'discretion'...

One week tomorrow I've organised a get-together at the local pub. It would be great to put some faces to names and a chance for you to h...

Things have come to a pretty pass when police are warning men against even talking to women but that's what is happening in Scotland. T...

Chris Trotter asks in today's Sunday Star Times ; "Because how much difference is there really between an Iraqi mother carrying her...

New calls to lower the alcohol limits for driving include this supporting claim; Australia has had a 14 per cent drop in alcohol-related cr...

A comment on Rodney Hide's blog suggests that of all the children killed (through maltreatment) over the past decade only two were not M...

A good friend has just sent me a small book called Handle with Care by Harriet Sergeant. It looks to be a damning appraisal of the UK Child-...

Just announced , the Ministry of Social Development is setting up a unit separate from CYF to deal with historic complaints of which there a...

Try and make sense out of the following; March 2002 Unemployment rate 5.3 percent Officially unemployed 104,000 Number Jo...

Yesterday, the Prime Minister was talking up NZ's poor record of keeping its children safe. She said, in respect of Bradford's Bill,...

Winston Churchill said about democracy, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tri...

Here's a judge who sentenced a woman to 212 years in jail, and, yes, a NZ jail. See. Labour is right. We are getting tough on crime. Ve...

Hah . Good on Marian Hobbs. Just a thought - a bit hackneyed - but what about teaching human responsibilities?