Lindsay Mitchell

Ex Minister for Social Development, Steve Maharey, is back today in the DomPost claiming his welfare policies worked and there was no need ...

Media Release 29 PERCENT OF DPB POPULATION ADDED BABIES TO THEIR BENEFIT According to just-released Cabinet papers , at November 2011, 29...

Last week I did a guest stint on the Radio New Zealand Jim Mora panel with Findlay McDonald and Gary McCormick. They were both objecting t...

The New Zealand Herald  today published my response to a column by Susan St John, spokesperson for the Child Poverty Action Group.

On Friday John Key was on Radio Live with co-hosts Rodney Hide and Willie Jackson. Jackson was predictably getting into Key about the welfar...

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Statistics NZ have just released a survey about childcare use and working arrangements and the change between 1998 and 2009 .  I have summa...

The latest issue of Rise , MSD's magazine, contains the story of Henare and Pam O'Keefe, a Flaxmere couple who have fostered hundr...

With respect to welfare, New Zealand appears to be following wherever the UK goes at the moment. The government has promised legislation th...

Sometimes an idea gets purchase and is very hard to shift.  For example, under Labour, during the economic boom, the numbers of people on we...

This is grim, but what can be said about Raurangi Marino? That are thousands more potential Raurangi Marinos out there? Put the  pieces ...

I have been commenting on Gordon Campbell's blog , once again rebutting his emotive and inaccurate claims about welfare, and welfare ref...

New Green MP Jan Logie has blogged about her opposition to the measures that will affect a woman who adds a child to her benefit. "...

The most significant welfare reform for me is that private providers will be contracted to manage 16,17 and 18 year-olds. According to the...

My interview with Larry Williams NewstalkZB on the back of a pre-record with Paula Bennett about the welfare reforms (re)announced today. C...

Writing for The Observer Andrew Rawnsley describes the division between taxpayer support for public health and support for welfare, the two...

John Banks is making noise about the proposed $1.6 million tax-payer funding of New Zealand's Got Talent . John Banks is unimpresse...

A Herald on Sunday column after my own heart (although I have commented with a partial defence of the subject used to highlight his point). ...

In past years I have blogged about the rise in the teenage birth rate. Now it is falling. NZ Statistics recently released the 2011 (year ...

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which h...