Lindsay Mitchell

At 57:46 a Samoan 35 year-old female called Kathryn talks to Danny Watson about the word 'poverty'. What it means to her living i...

From the Centre for Independent Studies , Australia: Rescue me Where once it was a mark of pride to take care of oneself in difficult ...

Every Child Counts, the left-wing conglomerate - blame-everybody-but-the-parents-for-child-poverty group - commissioned a report from Infom...

Kiwiblog has a post about Labour's old 'new' youth unemployment policy. It details the recycling of the old policy at least...

Gareth Morgan's answer to the burgeoning welfare system, the Universal Basic Income (UBI) of $11,000 per year for every adult, leaves th...

It was my prediction that the ACT party's polling would climb under Don Brashs' leadership. I was wrong. But I am so often in a s...

You will have read or heard about the updated Children's Social Health Monitor released today. It examines the effect of the recessio...

This year I have been giving pastel lessons which involve the student bringing a subject they want to capture. I provide the materials and w...

From the Acton Institute: In a society that does not value private property and fosters a spirit of envy and class warfare through weal...

I don't want to repeatedly beat up on Paula Bennett and the job she is doing but her response to Coroner Wallace Bain's call for s...

The Coroner in the Nia Glassie case is one Wallace Bain. Apparently Dr Bain wants spot checks on all children and... Dr Bain is also cal...

The Domestic Purposes Benefit has been named as such since 1968. 43 years ago National instituted the DPB Emergency Benefit. How much life h...

The front page of the Dominion Post features a story about the increasing bad behaviour of 5 and 6 year-olds. One of the reasons put up is:...

Billy T James didn't know me from a bar of soap. And this photo is only the result of an uncharacteristic action on my part. Asking some...

Have you noticed the word 'compassion', or derivatives of it, cropping up increasingly of late? It's a word that the left lov...

Paula Bennett is being too vague with the latest welfare reform policy. That became more painful to witness yesterday as Labour tried to te...

In last week's Hutt News Gordon Campbell, doyen of the left, wrote the following article (not on-line unfortunately): My attent...

We are about 20 metres above sea level. Just up from the beach. Beautiful. And will be until the power goes out. Like it did last night. Twi...

Drove through steadily falling snow into Wellington yesterday to pre-record a Close Up interview. It was about National's welfare reform...

Here's an interesting new candidate for National, Claudette Hauiti . I like her. And I don't think she is just mouthing platitudes w...