Lindsay Mitchell

Last weekend I was driving my daughter and a friend to a pool (swim, not snooker) party and the girls were discussing why the venue had been...

Sheldon Richman, from the Future of Freedom Foundation, takes an objective look at what Edward Kennedy stood for. In theory government is s...

This is Geoffrey. Named by Robert. He's almost three weeks old. That's if he is a he. He may be a she. Not wanting to over-handle hi...

I am about to read a paper just released by the Families Commission about a review of child support. But the following statement from the p...

I was further reflecting about the amount of government funding given to the Salvation Army, Barnardos, Plunket, and hundreds of other so-ca...

Australians are also coming under increasing UN pressure to ban corporal punishment in the home. They will be treated to all the same misin...

The Sallies are telling those of us who voted to decriminalise smacking to "move on" . Doesn't look like we have much choice, ...

Another of National's big ideas? Subsidised holiday programmes for poor kids. A week in a lifetime. It's hard to get excited about. ...

I am still wading through the Families Commission 292 page Family Violence Statistics report released yesterday. Here are two graphs that s...

This is lifted from a slide presentation produced by the Ministry of Social Development and the Inland Revenue Department. It is a surprisin...

Media Release VIOLENCE RISK 4 TIMES GREATER FOR FEMALE BENEFICIARIES Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 Women who are beneficiaries have a four-fold r...

I am unspeakably angry at the government's, no, John Key's reaction to the referendum. But I shouldn't be. Smacking is effective...

Naturally the YES voters are ramping it up in the face of an overwhelming NO from the public. Here is Deborah Morris-Travers from the YES v...

Media Release RECESSION IS NO EXCUSE TO PUT WORK-TESTING ON HOLD Monday, August 24, 2009 Based on UK developments, welfare commentator, Lind...

Family First has unearthed a comment made in 2007 by John Key. I agree with it 100 percent. “Proponents of the bill say that doesn’t matter;...

When I began this blog nearly 4 years ago one of the first posts took a tongue-in-cheek look at what various afflictions were costing NZ so...

Today's NZ Herald op-ed about the proposed reserved Maori seats today contains a lie; Ever since the rush-of-blood decision to exclude ...

While cooking tea last night I received a call from Radio New Zealand. Nothing unusual there. Except they didn't want to know what I tho...

When I was seven I felt sure the Queen would want to know that I was about to leave her kingdom. And so I wrote to Her Majesty informing her...

NewstalkZB reports; Judge pushes for gay and de-facto adoption His call is all very well but surely gay or de facto adoption is a moot point...