Lindsay Mitchell

Yesterday Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei gave a speech about child poverty. It was interspersed with animated clips. Here's an exa...

Dale Carnegie, the head of Engineering at Victoria University, writes in the NZ Herald about the consequences of NCEA. I don't want to ...

Casting around for something meaningful to say about John Banks and the prospects of ACT in the future, I came across this on Scoop: ACT...

Only recently the Legatum Institute rated NZ Number 1 in the world in education rankings. They base their analysis on things like teache...

MSD are apparently going to begin "home visits" to sole parent support beneficiaries to check whether they are indeed single. ...

This piece of personally addressed  electioneering material arrived in my letterbox today. Mrs Lindsay Mitchell was the only voter in this h...

The Child Poverty Action Group recently re-released this scatter plot (amended at the y axis after I pointed out their ealier calculation e...

On NewstalkZB t omorrow after the 10am news with Justin du Fresne talking about welfare, social issues and the stuff I generally blog about...

Another good graphic from Stats NZ showing how much we are spending on certain commodities when comparing 1974 with 2013: Click here ...

This moved me, particularly the second sentence. The State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but onl...

Thanks to Steve Wrathall on Whale Oil who drew my attention to this illustration: If you think this is only a contemporary observation,...

New work from Peter Saunders who provided advice to the Welfare Working Group: A new Civitas book proposes a sweeping overhaul of the ben...

I am "stunned" by the audacity of the Child Poverty Action Group in their comments about the error in CYF data collection and repo...

Three 'yes' votes just about to go in the post. As I emailed Leighton Smith yesterday, in response to people unsure whether they ...

The Minister of social Development has taken the unusual step of spelling out how much benefits pay versus income from work. She's pr...

This story was sent to me by a reader: New mothers are to be offered up to £200 in shopping vouchers to encourage them to breastfeed th...

According to Paula Bennett , We have seen teen birth numbers fall for the last three years – despite rising previously. And the birth rat...

Always interested in phraseology and idiom I was unfamiliar with David Cunliffe's choice to describe the likelihood of John Tamihere b...

The NZ Herald reports : Up to 90 per cent of pregnant women will have to get an antenatal check within 10 weeks if the Government procee...

Notice that the victim of violence in this case , run over repeatedly by his partner, is a man.  Waikato police district on-call manager ...