Lindsay Mitchell

The launch of Maori and Welfare resulted in quite a few interviews (with more to come), and a great deal of discussion on talkback, most of ...

Busy morning so I'll let someone else do the writing today. This is a succinct piece from the NCPA speculating about the effect of unio...

Yesterday a group submitted to the parliamentary health select committee about FASD, foetal alcohol syndrome disorder. The first thing that ...

Not what you are expecting. Research from the Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation shows that from a sample of 1046...

At MJ's request I have removed the original post. She says it has personally identifying details despite my having removed her name befo...

The NZ Business Roundtable today published a paper I penned as part of their Te Oranga o te Iwi Maori project. The media attention has been...

There is little easier than writing policy in opposition. Phil Goff wants the dole paid to people whose partners are working. What a hypocr...

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...