Lindsay Mitchell

It was the word "delutes" that caught my attention. Never totally secure about my own vocabulary I did check to see if this was ...

There's an interesting thread developing between sharihyder and Jigsaw on my post about the Memorandum of Understanding developed betwe...

Back in March I wrote in a Truth column, The ‘living wage’  idea poses more questions than it answers. Apparently the proposed non-compu...

This is interesting. MSD has just published a report by the Advisory Group on Conduct Problems (a bunch of academics) at its website. MSD h...

It'd be interesting to know where these  MoUs fit with whanau ora. Regardless, that Maori are confronting the CYF-related problem by t...

The John Campbell Show made a rare appearance on my TV screen tonight. His hectoring, biased style turned me off long since. But trailers du...

A note has been added at the link to the CPAG report I highlighted a couple days back: Report 2: Child Abuse: An analysis of Child, You...

The NZ Herald reports : Children's Commissioner Dr Russell Wills has decided to publish his own annual stocktake of child poverty a...

From time to time Muriel Newman and I collaborate on a theme for her organisation NZCPR . And from time to time the resulting articles make...

After the sob stories here's a refreshing change. A Fairfax news story about a woman on the DPB for twenty years who decided to get a...

Media Release CPAG RESEARCH FAULTY Thursday, October 24, 2013 Recent research by the Child Pov...

A spokesman for the Postal Workers Union (?) has just been on Breakfast TV talking about how "sad" it is that people aren't us...

Simon Collins tells this story: A solo mother has had her benefit halved, just eight weeks after having a new baby, because she failed...

 The Child Poverty Action Group has just released new data into the benefit sanctions regime which has operated since Labour introduced i...

...and there has been so many. In Wellington the centre right Mayoral candidate was smeared for issuing a public invitation to a painted ...

The latest fashionable wisdom is that the free market doesn't work. The GFC is proof. Power prices are proof. The price of fish is proof...

NZ hits one million adults with obesity   That's what the Daily Blog claims, predictably followed by nagging over the looming costs ...

More praise from me for the Minister of Social Development's initiatives to improve the accessibility and transparency of benefit data. ...

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...