Lindsay Mitchell

Sometimes after I have a letter published in the paper people react. First I get a message of encouragement left on the answerphone support...

This fact is contained in a report released by CYF yesterday: "The estimated cost to society of the one percent of teenagers who end...

From Page 2 of Monday's Dominion Post: A leading paediatrics academic has slammed the Welfare Working Group for not considering the well...

My volunteering went into suspension when I got back into my art full time. But I keep in touch with one ex-client - now a very good friend....

A report about disadvantaged youth in NZ contains incorrect data. The teenage birth rate for 2008 (December quarter) was 33 per 1,000 - no...

When the Capital Gains Tax was a 'good news' story Goff was fronting it (and it was getting as much media chat and talkback before...

If you have the time today watch the DVD Family First has just released about cases where parents have been dragged through the courts for ...

When Brash took over the leadership of ACT I thought, here's a go. Now there will be some discipline. Some strong economic messages. Str...

A smaller and better welfare state Kristian Niemietz 14 July 2011 Liberals who support a limited public safety net are faced with a dilemma....

Eight months on and I still have my shop. It's a cold hole during the day but once I am working, I am oblivious. And there is always pi...

Dear Don and Pita I watched you both on Native Affairs last night. You are talking not to each other, but past each other. You are not so fa...

This is a big call from the new Children's Commissioner: New Zealand's shameful child abuse rates have hit a "plateau" an...

I attended the Family First Forum as a speaker yesterday. Bob McCoskrie conducted a sit down interview with John Key for an hour, and later...

Apparently: Most New Zealanders are against sending solo parents back to work before their children start primary school, according to a new...

I said it wasn't a hanging offence but I was wrong . Note to self: be very cautious about alluding to overseas research that NZ women i...

Some members of the public are mislead into believing that someone on the DPB only receives $288.47 per week. Or: The alternative group, ch...

Tau Henare is right that yet another inquiry into child abuse is a waste of time . But committee chairman Tau Henare said the committee did ...

Some people are very vindictive. Unhealthily so. And it seems the incidence of this form of mental instability is on the rise. When reading ...

Statistics NZ has just released conviction and sentencing data for 2010. A couple of stand-outs are the increasing use of home detention ov...

If you wanted to do a crash course in the benefit system and current trends this weekend (in-law visit avoidance perhaps) you could bury you...