Lindsay Mitchell

This is a good show . Not quite Coro but getting there....

Here is the one of the up shots of Monday's meeting of the Alternative Welfare Working Group . The one that wants more welfare. The Gree...

...except maybe in this country. Women Take Almost 50 Percent More Short-Term Sick Leave Than Men http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/...

On the front page of Statistics NZ the unemployment is given as 6.6 percent for the March quarter. That is the figure provided by the March...

With reports of increased domestic violence, stress, workplace bullying, and job losses I thought I would have a quick look at Canterbury be...

Just for the record, Paula Bennett told a Welfare and Social Sector Policy Reform conference in Wellington yesterday: The number of those c...

I am a big fan of aspiring people seeking sponsorship through the private sector. Rather than via SPARC or Creative NZ or other taxpayer-fun...

The glossy Ministry of Social Development's Rise magazine (note to self - ask how much it costs to produce under the OIA) was released ...

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...