Lindsay Mitchell

Here is some refreshing disagreement between health board members talking about health solutions for the poor, Maori and the aged. When you...

All my careful studying of form and breeding and performance came to fruition this week when I picked six winners in a row at Forbury Park a...

I've just finished reading Nga Iwi o te Motu, 1000 years of Maori History, by Michael King. We hear plenty about the Pakeha stereotype ...

There were 400 more abortions in 2006 than in 2005 - a 2.3% increase. All ethnicities experienced increases ACCEPT ASIANS. The largest incr...

When my mother went into labour with me my father dropped her off at the hospital on the way to rugby practice . Dean Barker's wife isn...

I am not a proponent of the death penalty. But how often do we here opponents of it say, look at the United States, it hasn't worked the...

This appeared in the NZ Herald on Monday. My response is below. Louise Humpage and Susan St John: A bill the poor will pay for Monday June ...

Talk about sensationalism. The DomPost (slow off the mark as usual) has a small headline, "Teenagers die racing train" . Yet the N...

I saw an old schoolmate on TV. He sat next to me during Intermediate. I couldn't resist googling him and sending off an e-mail. An e-ma...

There is no doubt in my mind that we are too lenient with youth in New Zealand. The justice system is set up to keep them out of court for a...

Whether or not daycare is helpful or harmful is fairly controversial and complex. Various studies have contradicted each other. This report...

We have three overly large gum trees in our garden. They were in need of a severe pruning involving some major boughs, so I called in the te...

Deborah Coddington has today written about the Press Council decision upholding complaints against her North & South piece on Asians i...

I don't know why we Wellingtonians should be the sole sufferers of Chris Trotter's emissions. Anyone of you who ever let a logical t...

The Ministry of Social Development has just released research into youth justice - offending and custody trends. It says, Good progress on ...

Here is what David Benson-Pope had to say about 'research' which the Families Commission has, according to Sue Bradford, "sign...

The DomPost is doing a series called New Zealand By The Numbers drawing on the Census 2006 information. Today they show how people earn mon...

Oh, this is funny. In January 2005 Paul Blair, Rotorua sole parent and beneficiaries advocate, forced a law change through an out-of-court ...

Reading the front page of the DomPost today I wonder how I am supposed to react to the news that the mother of slain Wanganui toddler was a...

The Police drummer Stewart Copeland has branded the band's second comeback performance a complete "disaster.....It usually takes a...