Lindsay Mitchell

Two years ago... Pseudoephedrine, a drug commonly found in cold, flu and hayfever medication, will be reclassified from a class C ...

In my article Vulnerable Children bill: Will it make a difference? published at NZCPD yesterday, I wrote Today abuse is split into four...

This week's guest commentary for NZCPD: A recent Child Poverty Action Group report about child abuse claimed that, ” …the Ministry o...

So says the Child Poverty Action Group CPAG says the most effective way to reduce child poverty is to give children's payments to a...

This is a brief must-read from Aurthur Brooks because it equips us with a basic but just defence of income inequality: In America we stan...

That's what Michael Laws is advising : Despite claims to the contrary, no parent has ever been convicted for lightly smacking t...

A couple of weeks ago CYF chief social worker, Paul Nixon, had an opinion piece published in the DomPost. It wasn't on-line when I check...

A spokesman for the Wellington City Coucil commenting on a rehash of burial laws: "There has to be strict controls in place," a...

Nearly 45 per cent of respondents supported charter schools because they felt they would provide a different approach to education. A fin...

This is a table for Bill at the Standard .

This was published in a report released yesterday about older New Zealanders. The graph is headed with "Opportunities created by our...

The Standard is hysterical  over 2,000 benefits a week being cancelled. It's "warfare of welfare" they say. The NZ Herald tod...

The Scotsman is reporting: THE long-term unemployed are to be put into community service, made to look for work every day or be put on ...

An article from Stuff at the weekend described research into the increase in babies dying from head injuries. The number of babies dyin...

From the Taylor Fry actuarial report released yesterday here's a couple of interesting graphs. The first shows how many sole parents fa...

When he was Minister for Social Development Steve Maharey either said or wrote repeatedly that the average duration on the DPB was 3 and a h...

Well. After years of trying to tell people that sole parents spend many, many years on benefit I see MSD has just released a statement co...

Makes a change to read something intellectually stimulating in the press. But it is the ODT : Research suggested people with genes ...

A question irrelevant to the subject. I don't know why Bennett can't simply say 'No'. Benefits—Outstanding Arrest Warrant...

It just might be. My best movie ever. RUSH .  A review from me would be redundant when Variety says it all.  ...you’ve seldom felt more ...