Lindsay Mitchell

Good luck with that. No central government in the western world has achieved it. From today's Dominion Post: "Porirua Mayor Nick...

16 and 17 year olds and 16 to 18 year old teen parents who are receiving government financial assistance. From 30 July 2012, a new Yo...

Shearer hints at harder-line welfare policy There's an ambiguity about the headline from the NZ Herald relating to David Shearer...

Recently I had the pleasure of spending the day with James Bartholomew when he visited NZ as part of a research tour in preparation for a fo...

A Maxim 'Real Issues' newsletter referring to welfare reform says: Growth in welfare has become an increasingly critical issue i...

In 2010 4,800 newborns were added to a DPB 59 percent of the caregivers were Maori, 23 percent NZ European, 12 percent Pacific. The high...

Gordon Campbell interviewing David Shearer. Interviewing? Actually, no it's more like cross-examining to drag out the desired response. ...

David Farrar is criticising research claiming child abuse  isn't a cultural problem for Maori. He says, High quality research would ...

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...