Lindsay Mitchell

You may be aware an international UN conference on drug control has been taking place in Vienna. We sent Peter Dunne who has been talking a...

First I reiterate a part of a post from earlier in the week; "The fact is: if you don't want to be assaulted - or worse - by a cell...

Absenteeism. It's long been the bane of employers. Lost productivity. The direct and indirect impact on profit. Paying people to do noth...

The debate about double-bunking and Greg Newbold's opinion that rapes would increase, being discussed at a number of sites, is certainly...

I have a bit of time for criminologist, Greg Newbold. When he shares an opinion I listen. But his latest comments, that double-bunking in pr...

Prompted by Monkeys With Typewriters I had a look at the ACC 2008 Annual Report to ascertain how many long-term claimants there are. Here i...

VERY YOUNG MOTHERS - A RISK FACTOR FOR CRIMINALITY Monday, March 9, 2009 A report recently released by Corrections New Zealand, which explo...

A quote from today's DomPost; "We would be most disappointed if politicians were to encroach upon private property rights." So...

The latest Ministry of Social Development magazine has a feature about marae justice. While I am all for trying new ways to get youth offen...

This is an entry from Rodney Hide's blog ; Special laws for Wanganui Posted on 20 Jul 2006 Ex-Nat, ex-NZ1ster, now Mayor of Wanganui Mic...

This post is for my peace of mind. I have previously expressed reservations about the Three Strikes Policy shortly going before select commi...

This morning I came across this graph which clearly shows numbers unemployed dropping from around 135,000 in 1999 to around 80,000 by 2008...

What is worse than one Families Commissioner? Two (Transcript here of Judith Collins mercilessly attacking the waste of taxpayers money on ...

Stuck for words myself this morning I will pass on a reaction from my husband. Reading this over my shoulder he said, resign me. Any ACT MP...

The topic of Tapu Misa's column interests me. My comment however isn't about the topic but her approach. Read through the first fou...

I hate lies and advocates of state control are full of them. Here's a typical lie ; Kate Gainsford, head of secondary teachers' uni...

Some straight answers from the Minister for Social Development. For that, at least, she gets a tick. 260 (2009). Sue Bradford to the Ministe...

A friend e-mailed me these. I was giving them a cursory look over when I found myself laughing outright. Church Bulletins These sent...

RNZ report; Radio New Zealand's political editor who is at the conference says some business delegates wanted to discuss changes that c...

If I wore false teeth, this morning I would have swallowed them. This individual, ...convicted of 31 sex attacks, abduction and burglary ch...