Lindsay Mitchell

Deputy Prime Minister, Bill English answered for Minister for Social Development Minister, Paula Bennett, in the house yesterday. Asked what...

Last night the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Amendment Bill passed its first reading supported by all but the Greens and the Maor...

As I have no other post this morning I will continue yesterday's. Redbaiter says that my criticism of the written questions fiasco is ...

People are waxing lyrical about Speaker Lockwood Smith's new regime. Lockwood will make Ministers answer questions properly, they are sa...

Yesterday I was sent a list of great quotations. They are mostly familiar to me. Now I can add another, which wasn't and I've only j...

Is anybody else really bothered by this ? I have been against DNA sampling from people who are mere suspects of a crime from the outset. How...

Based on just the information provided by the NZPA (the study is not on-line yet) Jim Flynn's latest research appears to contradict h...

I take it this guy didn't swim to Egypt; New Zealand Archbishop says Anglicans should offer “moral leadership” in the fight against glo...

Well, not quite. But they may as well have been. From the NZ Herald ; Passengers see fuel pour from plane Rattled passengers were told not t...

I have been following this story from Kismet Farm. First instalment and second are a good read because the writer has a sense of humour b...

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 ...