Lindsay Mitchell

Should I be angry or pleased about an article in Salient , "How to rip-off WINZ" ? The more exposure this crooked, corrupt system ...

Jim Hopkins at his brilliant best. A must read . In fact cut and paste the url and send it to Hodgson and Maharey just to ensure they get th...

This just arrived in my in-box; I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to earn...

What took Sue so long? I've been expecting this for days; "When the overarching goal of the benefit system is that people on the ...

This business of enshrining in law the right of mothers to breast feed in public is just foot stamping to the nth degree. It's an issue ...

The major coverage of what John Key did and didn't say about the trans-Tasman therapeutic deal is in the Herald. The DomPost has it on A...

The focus on men as the only or major perpetrators of domestic violence is wrong. There are many, many studies that disprove this. Here are...

I had a dreadful thought. I was mentally replaying a conversation I'd had with a woman yesterday. We were talking about the Rotorua inci...

Media release BENEFITS BACKGROUND CHILD NEGLECT AND ABUSE Tuesday, July 31, 2007 In response to the latest high-profile child abuse incident...

We need a laugh. Get these flakes. Vegansexuals who won't have sex with meat-eaters because their bodies are made from carcasses. Good g...

This is rather astonishing; Dr Wills expected 2500 Hawke's Bay youngsters would be referred to social welfare services this year, 300 o...

Just listening to Labour MP Dover Samuels calling in to Radio Live and vigorously regaling Jackson and Tamihere with his thoughts about thes...

What we are seeing at the moment is not new. 'Battered Child (or baby) Syndrome' was first discussed in the 1960s. From Family Matte...

An expanded version of this report about a study into 318 drug users included the fact that "two fifths were unemployed, sick or inval...

And why should it? Roger Douglas in today's DomPost; The Government's monopolies in education, health, housing, pensions and insura...

...we get another awful case . It's just too hard to understand what goes on in the minds of these people.

The teacher's union, the PPTA, has taken a full page ad in today's DomPost attacking the government. It features a photo of a coupl...

From latest Robson-on-politics ; NZ media coverage of ACT Party Because I have been overseas for the last month I have had to rely on the we...

What a to-do. The Washington Post has published a piece about Hillary Clinton's cleavage (you'll be disappointed with the photo) an...

Stephen Franks has a post about low quality votes. I asked [ The justice and Electoral Select committee] what purpose was served by wailing...