Lindsay Mitchell

While conducting an interview with Radio Live, fortunately on tape, I realised a mistake I made yesterday. As L V says, it's the putting...

Straight from the horse's mouth; Whangarei-Kaipara area commander Inspector Paul Dimery said that while teenage drinking, underage driv...

Expect an announcement soon about the latest unemployment rate based on the HLFS - the official measure. A press release from Statistics NZ ...

Media Release ALL MAIN BENEFITS ON THE RISE Thursday, January 29, 2009 End-of-year benefit statistics just released by the Ministry of Socia...

Am I really surprised by this ? Police in Hamilton now based in schools I guess not. But what a marker of how lawless and disaffected some p...

New Minister for Maori Affairs, Pita Sharples, has just opened a Maori economic summit in Wellington. In his opening address he makes this ...

The Ministry of Social Development has rejected a funding application for $200,000 from Kidicorp to operate their after-school care program...

Another blog drew my attention to this course offered by the Lower Hutt Women's Centre. My only point of interest is the last sentence. ...

My e-mail contribution to a discussion on radio today (prompted by this report); Regarding P rendering people not responsible for their cri...

The official MSD position on partner violence and gender symmetry/asymmetry can be summed up by the following; Leaving basic prevalence leve...

It's all very well cancelling a few talkfests but National shows no sign of dis-establishing some of the talking heads and their bands o...

A top letter in today's DomPost from Bruce Tichbon who has tirelessly championed fathers for probably the last 20 years. And probably wi...

When men get in the habit of helping themselves to the property of others, they cannot easily be cured of it. — The New York Times, in a 1...

Here is the e-mail advice I have just received from the state (with a few comments interspersed) about preparing my children for returning t...

I am having trouble keeping food down, let alone using up left-overs, reading this; DON'T THROW AWAY LEFTOVERS, WARN "FOOD POLICE...

Justin du Fresne just opened his show referring to the solitary text NewstalkZB has received in response to their ongoing coverage of Obama...

A couple of people who occasionally comment here have started a new blog. Looks interesting so have added it to my blogroll. If you see Kay....

Keeping Stock has a post entitled "Did we need to know?" I immediately knew it referred to the headlines about the voice recorder...

Rosemary McLeod writes a very bitchy column about ageing beauties and what they look like. We're talking gargoyles like Madonna, 50, an...

In the last couple of hours an Airbus ditched in the Hudson after taking off from La Guardia and hitting birds. Miraculously it appears the...