Lindsay Mitchell

AUSTRALIA EXTENDS BENEFIT QUARANTINING BEYOND ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES Saturday, November 28, 2009 Australia is about to extend the Howard go...

Murray Edridge, speaking on behalf of Every Child Counts , in support of the NZ Child and Youth Epidemiology Service report, New Zealand Ch...

Two academics have corroborated in an article published in today's NZ Herald entitled, Crisis may just be starting for poor . It contin...

A conference is being convened called "Starving in the age of recession." According to a DomPost journalist; One in five Kiwi chil...

Here are the road crashes by percentage for various age groups. Without my addition one could be excused for thinking the performance of you...

At the risk of being labelled pedantic reports like this annoy me. Was it the PM who said, There were 56,769 on the sickness benefit and 85...

ACT has just announced it is going to support the ETS legislation. This appears to be a move to curtail the Maori Party demands and prevent ...

Tapu Misa quoting Ayn Rand to support today's column about Saturday's march; As the philosopher and writer Ayn Rand observed, ...

A reader was upset and angry enough to e-mail through a story that had shocked him. I think I was less surprised than he had been but it is ...

Here's an interesting theory that I tend to agree with. The US unemployment rate climbed as rapidly as it did because unemployment bene...

The Children's Commissioner is telling people to boycott the March for Democracy, to be held in Auckland tomorrow. An indicator of the ...

Here is an exchange from parliament Wesnesday. It does not serve any purpose. Nobody is any the wiser from listening to or reading it - poli...

A few days back I mused about why Labour isn't attacking the government over youth unemployment. Mainly because (I had to explain in a...

What is there left to say about the 'mysterious' deaths of some babies in NZ? 'Mysterious' does not refer to SID syndrome, ...

Another protest in Wellington today - another I won't be joining. As women are paid on average less than men, somebody has calculated ...

The Salvation Army wants a 25 percent increase in alcohol tax because it would cut teenage and other problem drinking by 10 percent (perhap...

Under proposal, in the UK, is a personal carbon allocation. People will be tracked by ID numbers and sent statements describing their liabil...

On Saturday I blogged about the fundamental difference in views between the Minister and associate Minister of Social Development re the pl...

The Ministry of Social Development posted its annual report on Friday. It may not be intentional but website postings are nearly always mad...

More people are escaping conviction for assault. The hand-wringers are outraged. My sense of what is going on, based on court visits, is, ho...