Lindsay Mitchell

Can I say a big thank you to each of you for the supportive comments made over the past few days. It's more than a mere platitude when I...

On NewstalkZB today after 11 discussing, among other things, the election. This is around the sixth show I've participated in. Initiall...

There is discussion around the blogs about ACT's list announcement today. No, I am not the mystery number 5 person. I don't play gam...

Nobody has a right to be published. That's why blogs are so powerful. Because they can carry information to many people when other media...

This is from a report just released by MSD about the diversity of the New Zealand community and experience of new immigrants. The drop in C...

This is a telling graph from Infometrics published in this morning's Dominion Post. It's self-explanatory. Labour has managed to ta...

Sounds vaguely familiar. VICTORIA'S curriculum is left-wing and is pressuring students to conform to the politically correct views held...

A new Maori Party has been formed led by David Rankin who will challenge Hone Harawira in Te Tai Tokerau. The Hapu Party. Assuming they hav...

Auckland University post-graduate researcher, Christine Todd, argues in today's NZ Herald that single parent families are stigmatised, ...

NewstalkZB are reporting ; A new study claims almost ten percent of New Zealand women experience domestic violence while pregnant. Auckland ...

The Centre for Independent Studies has been floating this idea for a while. People should be able to opt out of the welfare state. Now they...

Remember when you were all bowled over by the Maori Party slamming benefit dependency? Tariana Turia was guest at an ACT conference talking ...

Bill Ralston blogs today; Key claims: “It’s clear that some have got too used to being on a benefit and see it as a permanent entitlement.”...

Larry Williams talks to John Key about National's welfare plans. I follow explaining why they are tired and gutless. (Key starts at 12:...

Media Release NATIONAL'S DPB PLANS GUTLESS Monday, August 11, 2008 National's plan to deal with the huge DPB problem is tired and gu...

I will refrain from a lengthy comment on this seeming piece of timidity from National until I have read Key's imminent speech. There is ...

My first look at Paul Quinn, National's Hutt South candidate, was afforded by a campaign meeting hosted by the Forest and Bird Society o...

Found in my letterbox. Is John Ansell working for Labour? :-) Nah. It's clever but not that clever.

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. ...