Lindsay Mitchell

This is the full list of recommendations from a report on child poverty commissioned by the Children's Commissioner and Barnardos. Take...

Yesterday Sue Bradford used the full version of the F word in Parliament to emphasise and draw attention to the case she was highlighting. ...

What is wrong with this country? Or at least some of the people trying to run it. More than anybody else (except in rare cases) a child'...

It is becoming increasingly difficult to find time to blog but my boy has responded to two matters that had also triggered a not dissimilar ...

Another case with unremarkable hallmarks. For as long as governments have been keeping records, child abuse has been shown to be linked with...

ACT wants education vouchers made available in New Zealand. It will push this policy hard if it holds the balance of power after the electio...

"...ACT is a classical liberal party. Liberals believe that it is the citizen who has the rights and obligations, not the collective......

This is a post from Whale Oil Beef Hooked; Here is another photo of some protestors at the National Party Conference. They are ACT supporte...

Yesterday three ACT candidates and other supporters protested outside the National Conference in Wellington. Our problem? National = Labour....

Here is a sublime example of Labour spin. According to the Minister of Social Development Ruth Dyson; “The number of people receiving the Si...

According to the latest Families Commission research, The Kiwi Nest , "The Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) was introduced in 1973, and ...

My usual modus operandi is ration and reason in all matters (excepting animals and alcohol). Hence when it comes to the All Blacks I do not...

Yesterday an anonymous (but not new) critical commentor refused to accept that there are more beneficiaries in Australia per capita than in ...

In a faith-based unit, and on a Sunday to boot.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog The subject of that sentence now lives with us. The dog that is. Like the last canine object of ...

The proposed brothel for Dannevirke is back in the news . I originally blogged my intrigue they were offering males and suggested they shou...

I read almost everything Colin James writes. What I most admire about his work is his ability to step back and grasp the bigger picture. Bu...

Significant. This just-published paper examines the incidence of intimate partner violence (IPV). The over-representation of Maori is exami...

One expects that sometimes in life, as in politics, some compromise is called for. Right from childhood we are consciously or sub-consciousl...

National now endorses Working For Families . Here are some reasons that I posted earlier in the year why they should not. After each reason...