Lindsay Mitchell

Stephen Franks is musing about the proposed property tax and its effect on the rental market/ housing availability. Which prompted this com...

Writing in today's NZ Herald , Susan St John succeeds in showing how complex and counter-productive the state's attempts to redistri...

Don't waste your time reading it . Spun to be something it wasn't. In a nutshell; The recovery. All should share in it. Every NZer...

It is very hard to read this and remain composed; Labour leader Phil Goff is expected to ramp up his rhetoric against welfare rorts and ves...

An aggrieved neighbour takes the law into his own hands and slaughters 33 dogs. This is exactly the reason why the idea of vigilantism spar...

My analysis of the latest benefit data; Things to note; 1/ The DPB has the highest numbers in all bar two regions. 2/ The Canterbury and Sou...

The call for publicly-funded stomach stapling is just abominable. Not that it doesn't already go on to a degree but talking it up as an ...

The story of the man feeding kittens to his pitbull has been widely canvassed but I only just came across this one . It's chilling. I sa...

It would be possible to embark on a similar exercise using NZ statistics but let's just rely on the work the Australian Treasury has alr...

Beautifully put; There are around 340,000 private rental dwellings in New Zealand, many owned by mum and dad investors who have put their s...

What is it about marriage? Social liberals don't much care for the state-sanctioned traditional custom. Modernists wanted to dispense wi...

A very funny piece of satire posted by Adolf at No Minister reminded me of a few thoughts I had had regarding the Massachusetts victory (is...

Media Release RECORD RISE IN SICKNESS BENEFIT NUMBERS Friday, January 22, 2010 Statistics released today by the Ministry of Social Developm...

Another day of reading the news and shaking the head. Keys says if GST rises, so will benefits. That's only fair. A wealth of research ...

The state of Victoria has a higher population than NZ but fewer road fatalities. Last year they had a record low in road deaths. But a terri...

What a great analogy for well-intentioned policy gone awry; the hallmark of big government. The plan ... The outcome .... (Outcome pinched f...

Air France-KLM is going to begin charging obese people 75 percent of the cost of buying a ticket for the adjacent seat. But I wonder how th...

So, Stuff tells us, 9 people have been on the unemployment benefit for more than 20 years. This unimpressive piece of trivia hides more tha...

ACT has just issued a press release entitled; 'Three strikes' to become law. ACT Leader Rodney Hide was today pleased to announce t...

Apparently a new evaluation of the long-standing early education programme for low income children in the US has shown that there is very l...