Lindsay Mitchell

The High Court case featuring caregivers providing care to their disabled adult children is currently being conducted in Auckland. The care...

There is a certain useful phrase about rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic (and I am not referring to the post on Big News about ACT). No...

I wonder what Frank Macskasy was sentenced to? Update: the answer is here.

Will we ever hear Treasurer Bill English saying this ? "People think it's a lifestyle choice just to stay on out-of-work benefits; ...

Apple announced today that it has developed a breast implant that can store and play music. The iTit will cost from $499 to $699, depending ...

The only aspect of the David Garrett assault conviction story that interests me is, why has it come out now? Are we in for another morbidly...

From Simon Collin's article it becomes apparent that what Cindy Kiro said last week was misreported by Catherine Delahunty. She isn...

On first reading this is a heartbreaker but on second thoughts it might be the best thing that could have happened. Let's hope Paula Ben...

Green MP Catherine Delahunty made the following statement about an address by Cindy Kiro to the shadow Welfare Working Group last Thursday;...

David Craig, senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Auckland, has has written an interesting piece about the state subsidising w...

The shadow welfare working group met yesterday There are reports here and here . In Green MP Catherine Delahunty's words; Longer term s...

As a nationality the French are a puzzle. On one hand they can get off their backsides to protest en masse . But on the other, what are they...

A recently published Swedish study has found; Coming from a family on welfare benefits increased the risk of ADHD medication by 135 per cen...

The following graphs paint a clear picture of the deprivation associated with sole parenthood. But first, the extent of sole parenthood, whi...

Here's an uplifting story to permeate the sense of gloom the earthquake and bad weather has cast. It concerns a Corrections-run a prison...

As Child Support is topical here are some facts and figures produced through an OIA request last year; * In 2008 IRD collected $363 million ...

Way back in 2001 I started challenging the Minister of Social Development about the time people were spending on the DPB. Steve Maharey comm...

Lower Hutt Mayor David Ogden is offering free swims for seniors. My letter to the Hutt News; Is David Ogden morphing into Winston Peters? H...

Well done NZ Conservative . They have just linked to a US study that finds non-drinkers have the highest mortality rate. The sample of those...

Billed at the left-wing WelfareWatch under the heading "Facts and Figures" I have just come across this June 16 letter to the NZ...