Lindsay Mitchell

Teenage parenthood, particularly when the mother is under 18, is known to increase risk and poor outcomes for their children. Whether low in...

The lower dog is the mother, the upper, her son. I took the photos used outside my shop. She was very camera shy and it was impossible to ge...

Gordon Campbell has written a piece called 10 myths about welfare . Some of it is accurate; some is not. The vast majority of people want t...

The re-offending rate - 53 percent - after completion of boot camp is not looking promising and will probably worsen yet. The fact that it...

I don't mind being called stupid when I am. My family calls me stupid when I (re) heat the just-delivered Hell's Pizza salad along ...

The kerfuffle around a radio station's Win-a-wife competition continues with the Hand Mirror linking to a facebook campaign. Sue Bradfo...

The Government is signalling a big childcare boost under plans to push more DPB, sickness and invalid beneficiaries back into the workforce...

The family Mr Key befriended a couple of years back are still struggling . But it's not their fault. Mrs Nathan just had her sixth child...

I think I'll stick to welfare. Trying to sift through the arguments and counter arguments put by National and ACT regarding the Coasta...

Peter Dunne gave his own State of the Nation speech which outlined what he would be campaigning on this year no doubt. The first is that fa...

First, good column from Deborah Coddington this morning.There has been too much of this individual-rights-robbery going down under the curr...

Speaking on National Radio during the week Rodney Hide talked up ACT's achievement of ensuring a National-led, stable government for Ne...

Yesterday the unemployment rate for December was released - up from 6.4 percent in September to 6.8%. But here are some comparisons to Dece...

Something different from my usual portraits . Since I have had the shop/studio Richard Ponder , whose own gallery is a few metres away, has ...

Winston Peters would make me laugh if I had even a skerrick of good feeling whenever I hear him speak. But I don't. About the Prime Mini...

Good to see the Australian PM focusing on getting people off welfare and into work AND stressing the importance of work to people's we...

From Reason.com ; You've had the experience of walking along and negotiating around someone who is walking slowly, weaving, or bumping i...

Yesterday the Waikanae Music Society unveiled their brand new Fazioli. Sounds something like a Ferrari - in name, not engine sound. And the ...

Did anyone else wonder if Keith Locke, by announcing his resignation from Parliament, was freeing himself up for the rumoured new leftist pa...

The American Council of Science and Health notes: Late last week brought news that the World Health Organization (WHO) has been working to f...