Lindsay Mitchell

 According to Stuff : "Some employers say they are dealing with dozens of applicants unpresentable and unfit for work and they fea...

Media Release ONE IN FIVE BABIES BORN 2012 ON WELFARE BY YEAR-END Thursday, March 21, 2013 Data released under the Official Informatio...

An exchange in parliament today: Jacinda Ardern : Should a sole parent be able to study to become a nurse or a social worker while on the ...

 My Truth column March 14 - 20 It was embarrassing listening to a woman bleating about the status of New Zealand females, their lack of ...

The government wants to introduce (or re-introduce) a minimum youth rate and call it a Starting Out rate. It'll be $11 per hour. Their...

Local government finance and policy analyst Larry Mitchell has a short piece in The Truth about council rate increases: New Zealand Counc...

The really good news is the general SUDI rate is trending down - significantly. But : "We were especially concerned to see that th...

“Any government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have." (source disputed) Some...

A local bus-stop shelter was recently spray-painted with "Aoteoroa is not for sale." The tagging was a response to the Crafar F...

Home from work and having a happy hour glass of bubbly, feeling a bit more benign towards mankind as Michael Laws would put it, I came acro...

The private members bill legislating for an increase of taxpayer-funded Paid Parental Leave (PPL) from 14 to 26 weeks is back in parliament ...

Those people commenting here and elsewhere about their lack of sympathy for farmers and opposition to any assistance will be pleased to know...

It seems to me the phrase 'beneficiary bashing' was coined in the 1990s and originally used to describe Ruth Richardson's benefi...

Reported at Stuff : Employers have slammed the government's scorecard on creating jobs and developing a viable growth agenda, a surv...

Talking up child poverty is not an unusual practice. But it normally comes from the mouths of any number of people who make their living  do...

The Truth site is now up-to-date and I should be able to post my column weekly again. The 'living wage'  idea poses more questio...

Regarding the government assistance available to farmers in officially drought-ridden areas, in a column titled  "We are all benefici...

My Truth column for February 21-27. The political poll referred to in this column has since been superseded by others. Here's a scary...

Regarding Jacinda Ardern's claims and what the Herald on Sunday published , Paula Bennett has responded; "Ms Ardern and the Hera...

I was reviewing some of the papers presented to the WWG back in 2010 and noted some important statistics relating to the degree of dependen...