Lindsay Mitchell

I feared this would happen. That National would use the recession to do nothing about reforming welfare, the DPB in particular. According to...

The following figures just received from MSD show that care and protection notifications to CYF are rising significantly. For the financial ...

Media Release BIGGEST JUMP IN UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT NUMBERS SINCE LATE 1980s Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Latest benefit statistics just release...

An elderly high profile English couple, one terminally ill and the other struggling with eyesight and hearing problems, travelled to Switze...

Media Release OVER HALF TEENAGE MOTHERS GO ON WELFARE Tuesday, July 14, 2009 New information released by the Ministry of Social Development ...

Occasionally, when watching something like Nigel Latta's Into The Darklands , or reading an Alan Duff book, it is possible to feel some ...

This has got to be a joke; A Palmerston North netball team that wears shorts instead of skirts is embroiled in a stoush with the sport'...

Regular readers of this blog will know that in the league of blogosphere rudeness mine just doesn't rate. It is not in my nature to slam...

Not that I agree with Rosslyn Noonan, Chief Human Rights Commissioner, but according to this news item we are already back to square one in...

Remember Daisy? She's up the duff. We first noticed something awry when she started missing her target when leaping. Then Robert, who l...

The OECD has just released a comparison of health data . In many ways NZ is unremarkable. Except for this; "New Zealand has fewer physi...

Last week I commented on the turn-around the Left has made on the issue of discretion in the area of welfare benefits. Having achieved their...

This is an entirely spurious headline designed to antagonise patients and taxpayers; Doctors prescribe drugs that don't work Three out o...

This is a column by Gordon Campbell. My comment follows; Paula Bennett’s welfare abuse July 1st, 2009 To date, the government’s response to...

Yesterday the Ministry of Social Development released their annual statistical report - 1 year after the most recent statistical informatio...

Speaking to the medicinal cannabis debate last night Lianne Dalziel said ; The problems I see with the Bill are: The introduction of a compl...

In respect of the 2008 General Election; At 14 October, 2008, "... around 200,000 people still weren't enrolled." On 4 Novemb...

Great. New Zealanders are not going to be told that the referendum is a waste of time. Bad call John Key. Just released ; More than 25,000 p...

Back in 2005 one of the most controversial issues was the passage of legislation that would force sheltered workshops, which employ intellec...

It is official. When in need, most New Zealanders now believe that strangers, rather than their own families, should support them. The radic...