Lindsay Mitchell

That was weird. I'd glanced at this morning's paper while making a cup of tea, and was fleetingly trying to figure out who the wo...

Unusually, I was reading the comments thread after a piece on Stuff about 35 WINZ roles going. Resentment against case managers led to some ...

The headline on Stuff reads : Babies taken at birth from risky mothers . Guaranteed to pique my interest. Nearly 800 newborn babies ...

It's the perennial New Zealand story . Harvest time and no-one to pick the fruit. Thank God for the Vanuatuans - "Ni-Vanuatu" ...

Not me. I have no use for iTune vouchers. But my daughter does. I won the Auckland University's Stats Chat competition (again:-)) ...

Labour's main objection to the welfare reforms revolves around a lack of jobs. The government should be creating jobs they say (though s...

The Child Poverty Action Group reacting to the latest Household Incomes Report : "The government's being told there's no ex...

I haven't moved that fast in a while. What felt like a reasonably strong earthquake struck around 7:15am while I was having a bath! The...

There have been a couple of on-line polls  this week showing most people support the welfare reforms. To my mind there are a number of reaso...

An article appears in Stuff today:  The number of children born outside wedlock is fast approaching the number born to married parents...

The four main benefits all came to an end yesterday. So the data is worth recording for posterity. Below I've scanned MSD's grap...

Working at the gallery keeps me temporarily away from social commentary blogging so here's a new pastel just going up on my artist blog:...

The latest Household Incomes Survey is now available. It is still one year out of date but indicates some trends nevertheless. This is the ...

From the NZ Herald: What do you think of the welfare reforms? 12400–12450 votes Sensible and about time 58% Not sure - n...

Talking to Tim Fookes on NewstalkZB about the welfare reforms this morning, local MP Trevor Mallard said, "...the total number of be...

This post is for the benefit of a commentor on the Daily Blog who says I am talking "nonsense". The following is a table supplie...

I was prompted to check the latest physical child abuse statistics when I heard Deborah Coddington (standing in for John Tamihere on Radio ...

The DomPost today reports on the Ministry of Social Development's push to get more retirees to claim pensions from their birth country ...

The NZ Herald reports on the release of progress on achieving the Better Public Service targets yesterday. Welfare 1. Cut the number of...

I have no regard for Grey Power. Do all of the grandparents who belong to this organisation agree that their grandsons (and grand daughters?...