Lindsay Mitchell

Sorry folks but I have turned on the moderation function. Fortunately I am never far away from the keyboard so when you comment it should ap...

Do you recall the exploits of one Wayne Patterson? He invented superannuitant identities and successfully defrauded Work and Income of 3.4 m...

In Australia "health and welfare " jobs have just overtaken the retail sector in terms of employment. Currently 1 in 9 jobs is in ...

The criminal class has society over a barrel. Look at the news coverage. On Tuesday night in Hamilton two young women attempted to rob a fa...

Winding down to the exhibition now. With oils you have to have the work finished well before installation and this week I have been able to ...

It is rumoured that whanau ora is going to be administered by Te Puni Kokiri. Inasmuch as the DPB is a social policy which benefits (?) ma...

Some years back I was approached by a parent of children that went to school with mine, who had read my letters, knew my politics etc. She w...

Mistakes happen. Yesterday for instance I had a letter published in the DomPost and after my name it said "Point Howard". I have b...

The mentality of someone who rips off the taxpayer is comprehensible. The taxpayer is invisible, indeed the individual himself is one and ju...

Regular readers will know that when I think a comment or a criticism or a revelation is important I will distribute it as a media release. S...

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...