Lindsay Mitchell

What does it mean when you hear people say, I grew up with Michael Jackson? I'll tell you. It means your bedroom walls were plastered in...

This is possibly the best summary of the week. From the Maxim Institute ; The continuing debate over the referendum on child discipline took...

Many state house tenants are on benefits. In 2007 only 170,000 out of 260,000 working-age beneficiaries were getting an Accommodation Suppl...

There are now 302,000 working-age people on benefits. According to a report on TV3 last night, the Minister, Paula Bennett, told a select c...

Yesterday was the second anniversary of Sue Bradford's legislation. Here she lauds the change and the progress made since. Today I will...

Anyone for an Irish joke? Even more dramatically, numbers on the dole represented only 32 per cent of the officially unemployed in New Zeala...

Today's DomPost editorial says that the repeal of section 59 was a burning issue two years ago but is a "non-issue" today. The...

Should time out as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand? Time out is a tool for dealing with unwanted behav...

Stuff reports ; The drop in abortions performed in New Zealand probably indicates people are being more careful but more research is needed,...

Don't miss this. On Friday nights we always watch Homai Te Pakipaki on Maori Television. Last Friday I was floored by this kid. I wrote ...

John Key is wrong to insist that the results of the smacking referendum won't change the law. Why? Because he appears to be sending a m...

One of the ways I gather information is by monitoring parliamentary written questions to the Minister of Social Development. That has become...

Regular readers of this blog will know I love to calculate chances. Listening to SportsTalk on Radio Live this morning, walking the dog alon...

Americans are becoming less healthy. The study compared results from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey conducted from 2...

That's a misnomer. The following was written ten years ago as part of the Briefing to the Incoming Minister for Social Development. What...

Some mornings I have time to flick through the Dompost - others I don't and just go straight to the internet where I can get most of wha...

Booster seats until the age of 12? I still use one. It's called a cushion. When I was flying, the club had an L-shaped booster seat whic...

This came my way yesterday. I particularly enjoyed it because although not the action of the person who sent it to me, it could well have be...

Dear Editor Linley Boniface (DomPost, June 8) says there have been no downsides to the repeal of Section 59. In fact, care and protection no...

New Zealand went into recession early 2008. Headline ; Recession depression on the rise Then; Canterbury is the most depressed region in the...