Lindsay Mitchell

Winston Smith has just updated his blog with his usual cutting-through-the-crap humour; After reading about Cameron’s plan to turn the live...

It's not much after 9am. David has gone to work and I have done the week's grocery shopping, have today's washing on the line, t...

Highly recommended article here for those people who can't tell the difference between liberals, conservatives and libertarians. I used ...

The latest Roy Morgan poll . Not that I was asked, but if I had been, my answer wouldn't be represented. We could try a mini (probably v...

Whanau Ora is a restructuring of welfare services. There is no indication yet that welfare benefits are involved. Whanau ora promises to wor...

Turia has been appointed Minister of Whanau Ora. The media is billing whanau ora as potentially the biggest shake-up in welfare in decades ....

The Age is reporting that the Australian Treasury has predicted their population will grow to 36 million by 2050. The roughly matches what ...

Yesterday beneficiary advocate Paul Blair was back in the news claiming the Ministry of Social Development is acting illegally. He is trying...

Some news for those of us who had to be forced to eat fruit and veges as kids, continue to force ourselves to eat fruit and veges as grown-...

A friend once described to me how she and two others had gone to prison to visit a gang president to 'buy' her partner's freedom...

At December 2009 there were 62,580 16-24 year-olds on welfare, View the benefit type, age and regional breakdown here . Only 36 percent of t...

According to the NZ Herald people are being bumped off the invalid's benefit and onto a sickness benefit ahead of the new rule change...

In NZ there around 4,500 people on the methadone programme. In Scotland, where the population is only 5 million, there are 22,000 on methado...

Last month there were over 7,000 visits. A new milestone. Ta very much.

An AUT survey shows that; Feeling as though the Government is listening to them is one of the most important things to New Zealanders, but ...

Why are there race meetings all over Australia today sucking money out of shut-down NZ? Because NZ is a far more Christian nation? Or becaus...

That's the latest finding in the Christchurch Health and Devlopment Study; Specifically ; OBJECTIVE: The present study examined the rol...

John Armstrong writes about the tensions within ACT. A favourite of the media and left-wing blogs at the moment. He describes the apparent...

I have only now found time to go back now (prompted by a comment from yesterday - thanks) and have a look at the IMF recommendations to NZ....

I have been reviewing older issues of the NZ Social Policy Journals this afternoon and realised that under the National government (of the 1...