Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Two new paintings

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Two paintings about to be entered into the Academy Gallery's Winter Exhibition. Grappling with names for them and pricing.

Greens of a different variety

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The German Greens have ideas that only the ACT party would articulate here. The World Socialist Web has published an article about their lat...
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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Face Off

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On NewstalkZB tomorrow after 11am. This week the Face Off panel is United future Leader Peter Dunne, Peter Dunne's youth MP and myself ...
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National's next policy?

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The UK Conservatives are moving towards policy that favours married couples. According to leader David Cameron (Key will be paying close att...

A socialist utopia , Jim , but not as we know it

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Jim Flynn is defending his reported "eugenicist" comments at the Alliance blog. He puts the arguments from the 'real' ...

Cow disregards govt advice (see following post)

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I couldn't resist this gorgeous photograph. Waharoa farmer Anne Barbour found it easy to forgive her first calving cow of the season fo...
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Two child policy urged

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A call for UK families to have no more than two children is perplexing; Families should restrict themselves to having a maximum of two chi...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Look to your own patch

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Something for the Maori Party to think about. The 2005-06 rate of substantiated child abuse and neglect per 1,000 0-16 year-olds in Australi...

Better news from Oz

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Australian-based Peter Saunders has launched a new book, The Government Giveth and the Government Taketh Away "We should be getting aw...
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It's not what you think that matters, Hone

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I am not interested in what Hone Harawira thinks about John Howard's actions over the abuse of Aboriginal children. Objections about ...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Happy throw-away nappy news

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Parents can now use you the ever-so convenient, hygienic, better-fitting and safe disposable nappies conscience free; The announcement in t...
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Economic illiteracy

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This is a prohibition poster from 1924. It claims that if the money spent on intoxicating liquor was transferred into other items a massive ...
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Lowering the alcohol limit for driving

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A report released on April 17, 2007 showed that drink-driving deaths decreased faster than any other road deaths in the EU. 9 countries, th...
Monday, July 09, 2007

Hoisted with their own PC petard

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Dear me. I confess to having something in common with the Prime Minister. I have recently used the word "leper" in a way which is ...

We don't know how lucky we are

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We often complain about the effect of government interference on our lives, but spare a thought for those less fortunate than ourselves. The...
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I'm not offended Jim (and other stuff)

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73 year-old intelligence expert Jim Flynn says that lesser educated women out-breeding those with a tertiary education is a problem. I agre...
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Sunday, July 08, 2007

DPB compounds problem

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From the SST , New research out of last year's census shows that less educated women are the powerhouse behind the country's birth r...
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Friday, July 06, 2007

Creative maths - reduced credibility

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Judith Collins is employing some creative maths in this press release. She says there is a total of $750 million owed in benefit debt. But ...

Apologists rally

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John Howard's plans to stop aboriginal child abuse and general lawlessness have provoked a New Zealand rally to show support - not for ...
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Life in the EU

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Rt Hon David Miliband MP Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Nobel House 17 Smith Square London ...
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Lindsay Mitchell
Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits at Wellington, New Zealand, galleries.
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