Lindsay Mitchell

New Zealand is a secular state. The public service is secular in its practices and policies. If you are Pakeha. Maori spiritualism and cultu...

In the run up to the election, groups wanting the government to solve child poverty have been very active. A mix of academics, political act...

Many are pushing inequality as an election issue. The gini coefficient measures inequality. "From 2000 the level of inequality as expre...

A journalist from the Waikato Times has been investigating long-term benefit dependence in her region: A single Waikato mother of six child...

Sue Bradford is celebrating the implementation of her bill to allow imprisoned mothers to have their babies in prison for "up to two y...

Just a quick post re parents getting uncomfortable about today's sex education. My just-turned 13 year-old will relate some part of tha...

I care about what happens to people. Especially those personally involved with me. But also, those who I don't know, in a broader sense....

Did my dough on the All Blacks to be ahead at half time by a margin of 16-25. It's depressing for the Japanese and I don't think it ...

The NZ Herald reports : Turning a blind eye to child abuse will now be classified as criminal after Parliament tonight passed a law to hold ...

Sorry if I have missed something significant on this subject, but what is Rodney Hide doing? Twice it has been reported that he is not givin...

Did an interview with Geoff Robinson on Morning Report today. I was asked to comment on the latest child poverty report released yesterday ...

The following is an Australian editorial about income management. It largely argues against the practice of allocating 50-70 percent of a b...

A story about the "dark side" of NZ characterised by Maori gangs and violence, written by a Sydney-based journalist and running ...

Good to see the MSM getting the headlines right for a change, instead of parrotting what the Minister chooses to highlight: Dole numbers dro...

You have to laugh over the incongruity and inconsistencies of left-wing feminists. Here is a diehard example, ex-Alliance MP, Liz Gordon, n...

In 2008 the Child Poverty Action Group took a case to the Human Rights Tribunal. They want the In Work Tax Credit paid to parents who are...

Back in March 2009, under the OIA, MSD supplied the following information: On a sickness or invalids benefit with a primary incapacity of...

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...