Lindsay Mitchell

The teenage birth rate (15-19) for the year ending June 2007 is up to 29.9 from 27.6 the previous year. The highest rate in ten years. There...

Is this statement racist? According to Hone Harawira it is. "Maori and Pacific people have a greater propensity to commit violent crim...

This is very well written and easy to grasp (not that I think readers need simplicity but I do and there isn't enough of it). The Nanny ...

Read this story first. Actually I'll cut and paste it before it disappears. I considered blogging it at the time because the alleged ra...

This is a blog post from NZ Conservative ; If you subscribe to the idea that women should be sexually available outside of a married relatio...

From the Manawatu Evening Standard Child abuse and intervention figures supplied by Child Youth and Family put Manawatu at the top of an une...

If I was a satirist/cartoonist I would link these two stories. In one field we have a band of Maori prisoners industriously planting kumara...

Yesterday I was reading a paper in the newly released NZ Social Policy Journal called Jail Mums: The Status of Adult Female Prisoners Among...

This could literally happen to anyone who has kids. A Herald Business reporter had three police "banging" on her door after a re...

National get another good poll result . Because I don't really care whether National or Labour win the next election - they are both as ...

At least psychologist Nigel Latta has his head on the right way around. Another inane idea about protesting child abuse. This time from the...

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

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...

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

Yesterday it was the insane suggestion we indiscriminately slaughter certain dog breeds. Today.....Uh oh. Somebody needs to take Gordon Cope...

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

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...

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...

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

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