Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Friday, August 10, 2007

The dangers of living

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This is cheerful. Health authorities want people to lead such prescriptive lives. They simply don't understand that people might want t...
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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Job growth - WFF

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2006 June 1,668,000 457,000 2007 June 1,672,000 486,000 These figures are the number of full-time and part-time jobs in June 2006 and Ju...
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Child deaths linked to unemployment

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From today's NZ Herald ; Mr Doolan said the data suggested that child killings increased in line with unemployment in the late 1980s and...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Politician with too much time on his hands

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Yesterday it was the insane suggestion we indiscriminately slaughter certain dog breeds. Today.....Uh oh. Somebody needs to take Gordon Cope...
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We are over-regulated!

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This represents the number of pages of new primary legislation by decade BUT excludes secondary and tertiary legislation (regulations). ACT...

Rodney's book

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Attended Rodney's book launch at Parliament last night. His brief speech was one of the best I have heard in which he spoke about the v...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Mass destruction mooted

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I only read this because I was amused that Copeland and Dunne are both trying to grab the headlines over the latest dog attack. Methinks C...
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How times change

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Today Nanny vilifies and persecutes smokers, fat people, child-smackers, christians, and dog-owners but never a word is said about evil expe...
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"Food that travels well"

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The following Lincoln University research is being quoted in the New York Times . Interesting. * Most notably, they found that lamb rai...
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Under-reporting, over-reporting

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Figures released by CYF to the Herald on Sunday last week show in the year to June 30, a total of 4672 cases of child abuse - 46 per cent o...
Monday, August 06, 2007

And so it goes

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What year?
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Blocking information

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A discussion between Judith Collin's researcher and myself precipitated this release questioning the rise in the number of 16 and 17 yea...
Sunday, August 05, 2007

Some 'noise'

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Deborah Coddington's Herald on Sunday column today is also about the child abuse problem. Her angle is, politically nothing is going to...
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More freudian than Freud

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Heavens. The truth at last.

Cindy Kiro's claims

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From the Sunday Star Times Cindy Kiro claims, in an interview with Steve Braunias; "(But) of the 88 children killed between 2002 and 20...
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Saturday, August 04, 2007

"How to rip off WINZ"

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Should I be angry or pleased about an article in Salient , "How to rip-off WINZ" ? The more exposure this crooked, corrupt system ...
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Friday, August 03, 2007

A job for you

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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...
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Thursday, August 02, 2007

Pissed off (but not pissed) worker

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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...
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It's like blackmail

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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 ...

Breast feeding bunkum

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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 ...
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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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