Lindsay Mitchell

A quick cut and paste from NCPA this morning. Written about the US but entirely relevant to the NZ situation. As Girls Excel, What Happe...

Here's a new blog that looks promising. Added to my blogroll for your convenience.

Another example of different laws. But this one may not work to Maori advantage. Wellington bar owners say drunk Maori will be specifical...

(I lived and worked in London for four years and it is the only other place in the world I have ever regarded as home or would want to make ...

A Northampton garage owner was apparently sick and tired of thugs breaking into his garage shop to steal tools, etc. So he came up with an i...

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett says Future Focus changes implemented last September have saved taxpayers more than $6 million. ...

Naturally enough I am interested in who is on the ACT list this year. According to the NZ Herald: On Friday it issued its list of 47 candid...

I love my Mum and Dad. They came for dinner last night. A roast. Because that's all I can cook with real confidence. And my mum, bless h...

Periodically I ask MSD for the reasons why people are leaving the DPB. Just tracking trends. Not much stands out from today's response. ...

The Greens plan to lift 100,000 children out of poverty is unworkable and defies reason on a number of counts. First the definition of pover...

Are you a Conservative? I didn't score enough to need a Conservative Party (8 out of 15). And that was an ambivalent 8 as some of the qu...

Yesterday saw the release of the Household Incomes in New Zealand Report which is updated periodically. It is full of data, both domestic a...

...is one thing the general public is largely against. MSD provided a paper to the WWG on the parameters of the problem. The data matched w...

The NZ Herald's blitz on hungry children in New Zealand continues today with a further piece about the Waikato. Simon Collins at least h...

So someone with credibility comes out and says that some boys expect to grow up and live off the mothers of their children because that is ...

Don't miss this posting by John Ansell.

Where was deputy Labour leader, Annette King, on the removal of section 59? A staunch supporter. In this video she, and Deborah Morris Trav...

Apparently , "Ms Bennett told reporters today the discussion paper was different, gusty and controversial." (Gusty? Very.) Gutsy? ...

This is a graph depicting food parcel uptake from today's NZ Herald . First thing I notice is that the usage of foodbanks grew rapidly i...

The answer is 'no'. I will not sponsor a New Zealand child 50 cents a day so he or she can eat breakfast. I will not because 1/ Tax...