Lindsay Mitchell

Adult behaviour at their children's sport's games is both fascinating and repelling. As I head off to soccer and then netball I will...

There is almost certainly an agenda developing to have a zero-alcohol driving law imposed. Drink-driving prosecutions are up, we are told . ...

For the life of me, I cannot see what's wrong with what Rick Ellis said about a commitment to showing Maori on TV including programmes ...

Media Release MAORI 8 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE TEENAGE PARENTS ON WELFARE Thursday, May 24, 2007 Maori make up 19 percent of the 16-19 year-o...

David and Rhonda Heather have a son who is deaf, almost blind, mentally retarded and cannot talk. He has congenital rubella syndrome. He was...

Some people can always find something to moan about. Now it's a problem that women live longer than men; Older and bolder? Pensioner par...

Remember this , Youth unemployment drops 92 percent under Labour , a week ago today? The just-released Ministry of Social Development's ...

Gee I'm tired of this subject and Christchurch Mayor Gary Moore's opining about parenting and alcohol and fast cars (my Austin A40 w...

Why I won't vote National. Colin James writes ; Key is not Brash. He has implicitly bought into big-government conservatism - as John Ho...

Right assessment. Wrong solution. New Zealand now has one of the largest gaps in the world between male and female achievers, with the men ...

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...