Lindsay Mitchell

Last night I heard Rodney Hide say to TV3 News, "I am not a martyr". The reason Hide's tax-payer funded spending on his girlfr...

Reacting to Michael Laws' comment that potentially awful parents could be offered cash as a sterilization incentive, Barnardos New Zeal...

Media Release TREASURY: DPB GROWTH ABOUT "YOUNG WOMEN HAVING CHILDREN" Friday, October 30, 2009 In its report into economic long-t...

Treasury yesterday released a report into the long-term outlook for New Zealand. The NZ Herald has a summary here . However, it provides a...

There. I said it. I am feeling really shitty because I had to leave a seagull with a broken wing lying helpless on the beach. I tried to ri...

The Wall St Journal has an interesting article about research into the brain development of degu pups that are raised without fathers. Thes...

The Social Report for 2009 is out and amongst many other findings about various social indicators this appears; Most recent data In 2006/20...

There was some talk around the blogs last week about obsessive ecologists Brenda and Robert Vale who have suggested that, because our dogs h...

Did you know that, according to Gordon Campbell; It seems to have eluded Federated Farmers economic spokesperson Philip York at least – jus...

My age is beginning to betray me. I seem out of touch with the new kind of gung ho approach by politicians. The fostering of solidarity and...

I support the right to choose. But personally I cannot choose the termination of life. It's an emotional, deep-seated impulse. But I fac...

Reform UK has just released a report proposing ideas for reforming the current social security system. I thought the opening sentence was ...

Apparently because alcohol kills 50 times more people than P we should be 50 times more worried about it. If I were 50 times more worried it...

Well, actually, I haven't won the bet yet but I won the bet. Let me explain. Last Sunday Des Coppins had a draw open to all callers to h...

I have now had chance to read the report . In 2007 MSD instigated a new approach to sickness and invalid beneficiaries. It involved more int...

I was caught on the hop yesterday when I received a call from Radio Live asking me to record an interview about my earlier press release reg...

Sus kindly sent through a letter she received yesterday from the Minister for Social Development, Paula Bennett. Representing National, in t...

I was wondering whether regional reliance on the unemployment benefit matches regional unemployment rates. (June 09 benefit data is used be...

The number of working-age beneficiaries has risen by 21 percent over the last year. Here's a breakdown by September 2009 total and annua...

There is too much wrong with Tim Hazeldine's defence of ACC's viability in today's New Zealand Herald to take any comfort from ...