Lindsay Mitchell

The current backlash against the 'rape culture'  personified by Roast Busters, dictates, insists,  the 'victim' has no culpa...

I have noticed that the living wage is now being touted as the level of income necessary to participate in society. I heard a British propon...

Amidst all the furore about teenage sex, not only the sordid West Auckland carry on but the supply of free condoms to adolescents, the fol...

In today's DomPost: The law could be changed to zero tolerance and have as much effect on drink-drivers as the smacking ban has had...

I couldn't resist posting this one, from the Freedom Foundation today: The greatest threat to the future of our nation -- to our fr...

Newstalk ZB just featured Labour leader David Cunliffe talking about discomfit with the man ban saying, "Real men don't whine...

Since changing laptops I have been unable to post images, and my sitemeter and search function both disappeared. The problem is now fixed an...

I don't want to misrepresent this study and the findings so will just cut and paste the extract and you can draw your own conclusions: ...

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...