Lindsay Mitchell

Just posted at "Breaking Views" .

I usually don't catch up with NZ Herald columnists till the following day, given I read early and they are not published till later. Gar...

Unusually insightful article here from one Kevin E Schiemsing. US religionists are in disagreement about proposed cuts to welfare programme...

When I thought Cameron Slater had hacked into the Labour site I was conflicted. Glad he had (intentionally or otherwise) avenged the Brash ...

The DomPost reports that according to the school principal at Cannon's Creek School, "... about three quarters of parents are unemp...

Reading a NZ Herald report about households receiving high total benefits due to high total occupants had me thinking... A report obtained ...

I remember the first ACT 'do' I ever attended. Still a member of the Libz, I had been very active in campaigning against the DPB fro...

Another study from the previously mentioned June issue of the Social Policy Journal of New Zealand is into children's perceptions of vi...

" Whatever I do, I would like to continue to serve our community and our country." And get paid a hundred grand more than the aver...

Fran O'Sullivan was delving through old file boxes and came across one about the Knowledge Wave conference in 2001. Ten years ago alread...

The Social Policy Journal has just been released and contains a study into the early pregnancy/parenting rate of young Maori using the Chri...

From Stuff : The welfare group's February report said the cost of welfare would go from $47 billion to $34b by 2021 if its reforms proce...

Todd McClay, who I respected for standing by his Dad but was unimpressed with at select committee when in the 3 hours I was in attendance sa...

The inevitable comment arrived (also inevitably made by 'anonymous') reacting to my post about the extra handouts to over 65s: And w...

It isn't unusual to hear oldies bleating about Working For Families and how much money their adult children are getting that they don...

In regard to welfare reform my focus has always been on the DPB for the reasons that 1/ children are being disadvantaged, sometimes very bad...

There is opinion, and there is wilful misrepresentation. Yesterday, Key-the-moderate was engaged in the age-old right wing election year rhe...

Most journalists do not understand the statistics surrounding benefits. Here is an example of more mis-reporting and emotionalism on welfar...

This word extreme is a strange one. On the one hand New Zealanders seem to embrace the idea of extreme activities or extreme sports or extr...

I suppose you and I will be paying for this : A new parenting programme targeted at Maori tells them they are inherently loving and nurturin...