Lindsay Mitchell

 I wonder how widespread the following practice is: If a respondent reports more than one ethnicity, the ethnicity attributed is determ...

Being badgered about child poverty measures by Jacinda Ardern yesterday in parliament, Tony Ryall, answering for Paula Bennett, made this...

I was just having a look at the HLFS tables released today. Table 7 (cont) shows that the 'Arts, recreation and other services' s...

In an editorial not dissimilar to my post earlier in the week about who should fund political advocacy, the NZ Herald says , not taxpayers...

My Truth column May 2-8 (the print edition carried the photo): It’s my son’s 19th birthday. So I retrieved the newspaper kept from the da...

I asked the question yesterday, how come an advocacy outfit like the Child Poverty Action Group retains charity status while an advocacy ou...

The graph below comes from the Household Incomes Survey and shows that a decreasing percentage of 18-24 year-olds are partnering and settin...

Why can  the US report jobs data for April while in NZ we are still waiting for jobs data from March? Isn't bullying just as bad wh...

Yet another high profile person arrested on suspicion of rape. This alleged incident is more recent and the MP is gay. But you've got t...

The latest Roy Morgan poll shows surge of support for National and notes that National Party rebounds 6% to 46.5%; Labour down 4% to 31...

My Truth column published April 25 - May 1: Apparently the electricity market isn’t operating correctly so consumers pay too much. Like p...

The Greens are promising to repeal the Three Strikes law because it's apparently rendering punishments too severe for the level of offe...

There are always people looking for a hand-out prepared to argue that the cost to the taxpayer is "just a drop in the ocean". What...

I've only just noticed that long-time NZ Herald columnist Tapu Misa hasn't produced anything since February 2013. Is she gone burger...

In 2011 Save the Children put out a report claiming 250,000 Swedish children were living in poverty. But some Swedes didn't accept the...

My Truth column April 18-24: I’m confused but I don’t think it’s an early onset of Alzheimer’s. In the ...

This is unusual. MSD has put up a media release relating to the removal of a baby from its caregiver. I am guessing the family has gone to t...

Nobody clicks on a headline about a baby dying from 'injuries' sustained in a home incident and expects to see a lovingly cared for ...

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Something for you to think about. Who should Judith Collins select for the just-listed ministerially appointed job of Chief Families Commi...