Lindsay Mitchell

On NewstalkZB earlier this evening talking to Tim Dower about the latest Child Poverty report. One of the e-mails that Tim read out later...

Some of the data from the forthcoming report is depicted at this site. This is their graph for the trend. Another graphic shows that...

A NZ Herald editorial begins, There will always be a constituency for the Act Party's founding principles of individual freedom, pe...

The Children's Commissioner is about to publish an apparently "shocking" report about the increasing number of admissions to...

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...