Lindsay Mitchell

The following is from a letter to me from the Ministry of Social Development. It clarifies the difference between adoption in the Maori and ...

In 2002 research was commissioned into whether people on the DPB were interested in looking for work . An external research company phoned 1...

You will find this post dry and boring but it is necessary. I have been getting it in the neck from a patronising commenter for making a sta...

This photo has fascinated me since I first saw it at the Alexander Turnball Library. It is of a district nurse visiting a family in Northlan...

It appears that the US suffered much higher unemployment during the recession than NZ. And this has surprised me because the US, in previous...

Garth George makes some fairly astonishing statements in his column today. Bearing in mind many men and women choose either to have a vasec...

This morning I came across a blog previously unknown to me. Winston Smith (a pseudonym) works in Supported Housing in the UK and writes abo...

According to Hone Harawira people want to drink alcohol, they want to smoke cannabis but they do not want to smoke tobacco. That is why ban...

Got into an argument over at The Standard again. One of their writers claimed that the unemployment rate when Labour took office in 1999 wa...

Ow. What was that. A little twinge of jealousy perhaps? Minister for Social Development, Paula Bennett will spend 5 weeks in the US looking...

The Human Rights Commission has released a report about the status of women's human rights. One of their concerns is that more women li...

Unemployment benefit numbers are down. Particularly for young people. The Minister says there is light at the end of the tunnel. Their work...

Honestly. Hrrmmmpphhh. Why do we need a Children's Day and why do we need talking heads like Murray Edridge to inveigle us to spend tim...

I couldn't resist posting this in its entirety. It comes from the Centre for Independent Studies newsletter ; Lefties too clever by half...

Colin James looked at the recommendations of the expert panel on child abuse in his Press column this week and made this observation; ... Be...

According to Stephen Joyce, on Wednesday, March 3, 2010; Young drivers make up 14.5 percent of New Zealand's population and 16 percent ...

A panel of experts gathered for two days and put this document together. It is only 10 pages and simply written. Marks for that. It begins;...

Media Release WELFARE REFORM REDUCES CHILD ABUSE Thursday, March 4, 2010 Debate has flared on the back of calls for sterilisation of the wor...

Thank you to the well-wishers. Tom is making good progress and thoroughly enjoying all the tea and sympathy. He can never get enough attenti...

A commenter over on Whale Oil has provided updated statistics for the NSW road crash toll and pointed out that most recently, under 26 yea...