Lindsay Mitchell

According to the DomPost yesterday, there are now 105,000 jobless in New Zealand. (I wish they would use the correct terminology. There are ...

The NZ Herald polls on What Does Waitangi Day Mean To You? I didn't even have to think about it. A day off. * Anniversary of the T...

In December 2005 New Zealand had the lowest unemployment rate in the OECD. In three years it has dropped to 10th equal. Over the same period...

An Australian left-wing think tank is calling for the dole to be raised to the same level of payment as Super. That is faulty thinking. Une...

I move in some 'circles' that people wouldn't expect. Thus I pick up interesting tidbits. A young woman was pregnant. She didn...

Some days I read the news and feel a wave of disbelief well up. Then it turns to real anger and frustration. Today is one of those days. Wo...

Working For Families has something to do with this . Total paid hours, when seasonally adjusted, decreased by 1.4 percent in the year to De...

This is very sad and I am quite gutted on behalf of those children who wanted to continue at Montessori. Our son Robert attended for three ...

Last week I blogged this letter because it impressed me. There have been a couple of vehement responses to it. Here's one published tod...

MSD data (for Lucy); Historical data sourced from Official Yearbooks; 1940 11,811 1950 9,476 1960 8,024 1970 8,342 1980 15,647 1990 ...

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...