Lindsay Mitchell

The author of The Welfare State We're In is writing a new book. His latest post coincides with my earlier topic this week prompted by di...

I accept the government's tax subsidy to Rio Tinto is corporate welfare. Corporate welfare is bad because it's privilege for some...

New Zealand's small population makes politics particularly fertile ground for power-hungry egos. Combined with the incestuousness of MMP...

There are only 34,200 Maori aged 65 and older. 65+  34,200 75+  11,000 80+  5,000 In the total population  616,660 people are aged 65 ...

Last week the Child Poverty Action Group released a report into the link between substantiated child abuse and socio-economic deprivation, ...

My subscription to e-mail notifications of new studies coming out of the Christchurch Health and Development Study delivered this finding t...

Here's one OECD chart New Zealand is topping, Family Violence   Chart SF3.4.A Prevalence of partner physical or sexual assault, w...

New research from CPAG claims there is "no evidence of an association between benefit receipt and distinct substantiated rates of chil...

CPAG has been heralding the release of a new report into child abuse which analyses CYF data. It hasn't gone on-line yet but Stuff has a...

A column published in the NZCPD newsletter today speculates about the lack of public protest against National's current welfare reforms:...

In the interests of children the In Work Tax Credit should be retained as a work incentive. Even Labour believed that working parents offere...

I don't know. But he's a clever, quirky man and I'll be watching tomorrow at 7.20am TV One.

Here's Lexie at parliament today. She appeared briefly on the TV3 news coverage. Good turn out I thought. Good on John Banks and Mojo M...

Originally feminists fought for important rights, like universal franchise. Doubtless I'd have been amongst them. They fought for women...

Reminder about tomorrow's protest in Wellington and other places. John Campbell just ran a good piece. It was sad to see John Banks spe...

Labour has announced it will ban foreigners from buying houses. What a racist, anti-global, anti-freedom joke. What a retrograde step for...

Here's a number that doesn't get publicised often. In the financial year ending June 2012 the total local government took in taxe...

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 ...