Lindsay Mitchell

The December 2011 benefit factsheets have been released. The DPB total climbed a further 1 percent over the year to reach 114,230. the work-...

I wasn't alone yesterday in interpreting media reports about women breastfeeding while driving as applying to women drivers, such was t...

Simon Collins has typically turned up another case of someone who doesn't want to work if it doesn't pay better than being on a ben...

The writer of yesterday's NZ Herald editorial takes what he or she thinks is a considered and objective stand on child abuse. The piece ...

Ah. Too late for me to say, I told you so. Well, I can to my husband. But I didn't blog about my suspicion that the Turangi attack might...

Rodney Hide co-hosted the Radio Live Willie Jackson and JT show yesterday, standing in for John Tamihere . Anyone familiar with the show exp...

Attempting to follow the progress of the US welfare reforms can be difficult simply because Americans mean different things when they use th...

Cuts to welfare budgets have become a reality across nations. A reality that NZ has so far avoided. Elaine Hirsch looks at cuts to Californ...

Had enough of it yet? Take a deep breath because the word 'poverty' is going to sound like a stuck record this year. I respect Dav...

I am tossing up whether to make a submission on the government's Green Paper on Child Abuse and Neglect.  I spent an hour or so looki...

...look like they need a caption. I want to do a rather grand Te Horo Turneresque landscape with cows. But son and I got a bit carried away...

Just a brief comment. There are many reasons put up for why Maori make up half of the prison population in 2012. Some say it has to do wit...

You will have heard murmurings that getting into University was going to get tougher. Good thing too. But I must admit I thought to myself, ...

The NZ Herald reports today that "Benefit fraud cost taxpayers a record $22.6 million last year..." and that it is up from $15.9...

The Scotsman (or the Crown Office) has taken the unusual step  of publishing photos of the home environment in which a 15 month-old baby bo...

Continuing with the theme the Taranaki Daily News has been pursuing about child poverty and hunger, the Waitara Central Primary School princ...

I have touched earlier this week on the series that the Taranki Daily News has been running on child poverty. Someone (thank you) sent me th...

I see Trevor Mallard is now getting it in the neck from The Standard over his allusion to UK Labour taking up the welfare reform cause. ...

A new year. Back to work today. I have three commissions to complete. Did a stock-take on business done since opening last November. Have co...

News out of Britain is Boris Johnson has attacked Conservative plans to reform disability payments. This blog links to media coverage about...