Lindsay Mitchell

The Press reports , Parliamentarians will form a group to combat child abuse as a new report shows it costs the country about $2 billion a y...

I have just realised today is the third birthday of my blog. I have never not wanted to keep blogging. But I do struggle with some bitches...

Media Release MINISTER MUST STICK TO HER GUNS Friday, 19 December, 2008 The Minister of Social Development, Paula Bennett, has welcomed the ...

The title of this post seems to be a statement that goes without saying. Yet the Child Poverty Action Group has fought a protracted battle w...

(And I didn't know there was such a thing a pabst beer )

I bit the bullet yesterday and went Christmas shopping. Never before can I recall 8 shopping days THIS SIDE of Xmas Day, there being the sor...

"It was a fully functioning household. We did the shopping, paid the bills and basically lived a normal life." Chris Kahui about ...

The government's temporary, boosted assistance for workers made redundant, ReStart , may play a role in deepening the recession. That i...

There can be no doubt there is a strongly conservative mood afoot in the early 21st century. The prohibitionists of many flavours are more p...

“It is about the right to work. It is in the name of the party. It is the Labour party.” Hah. That's a quote from Labour's Work an...

The Americans reached a realisation that welfare was harming families and children during the 1990s. They decided that open-ended welfare mu...

It is never long between reports that women aren't getting a fair shake of the stick - in the workplace or in society. Yet our biggest g...

The title of this post is too frivolous but sets the scene aptly. This morning Minister for Social Development, Paula Bennett, told Breakfas...

I was invited to join Radio New Zealand's Jim Mora for a discussion about the Families Commission and whether we need it. Funnily enough...

There is an inordinate amount of squealing going on at the moment by those who have held sway for the last nine years. Here an academic take...

It was unclear yesterday what Paula Bennett intended to do about a families Commission Summit to be held in February 2009 at the cost of 200...

A 16-year-old wiped away tears as he appeared in Christchurch Youth Court today charged with the murder of Abdulrahaman Ikhtiari. He should...

I gather John Key's throne speech has been delivered and is no longer embargoed. No surprises. All the stuff we already knew about. But...

Today's Dominion Post had a post-it note attached to the frontpage. The one below is John's response (or the one I would like to see...

Colin James makes this observation about ACT's chances of doubling its vote in 2011; Act's best hope is the last option, to morph i...