Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Saturday, March 07, 2015

Little on-song for Nats

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The Nats will be cheering for Labour Leader Andrew Little this morning. Trying to derail their Northland by-election campaign he tells the N...
Friday, March 06, 2015

Housing NZ stock doesn't match the need

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MSD has published data pertaining to Housing NZ stock and tenancies. I've done some analysis: - only 9 percent of properties are be...
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Thursday, March 05, 2015

Wealth and IQ in NZ

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The following is compiled from the well-known Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study and applies to cohort members at age 3...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2015

If you believe in end- of- life choice, do something about it

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This debate is going to get messy when people don't tell the truth. Just recently TV3 reported: Nearly half of Kiwi doctors are in...
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Show us the "systemic discrimination"

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A recent Amnesty International report made the following observation about New Zealand: The 2013 Technical report on Child Pover...
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Monday, March 02, 2015

One government agency sues another

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According to the NZ Herald: WorkSafe has filed a charge against the Ministry of Social Development following the Ashburton Work and Inco...
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Sunday, March 01, 2015

"Honestly, Mum, chances are he WON'T stay with you."

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Jack Tame reports from New York: For a while, subway cars were plastered end-to-end with photos of crying babies and the line: "H...
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Quote of the Day

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How many kings have abdicated their thrones after becoming convinced that monarchy did not truly serve the downtrodden masses? Will ...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

The anonymous replacement for Carmel Sepuloni

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With Carmel Sepuloni suspended from her spokes role in the social development portfolio I wondered who had replaced her. No clues here : ...

Absurdities

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Murray Deaker, who I enjoy listening to occasionally though I've little interest in sports beyond the turf, writes 'exclusively'...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Graphs of the day: Regional and ethnic analysis of benefit dependence

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Digging National out of a hole

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In DomPost yesterday:
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Getting to the crux of welfare dependence

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Quick cut and paste of, for me anyway, quite exciting analysis . New Insights Age of Entry and Intergenerational Benefit Receipt ...
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On Carmel Sepuloni's "conflict of interest"

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On one hand I can agree with the Whale that Carmel Sepuloni should not be punished for the (alleged) sins of her mother. Andrew Little has ...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Typical attack on ACT

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This writer makes some questionable assumptions. I am 40 plus plus and would vote for a rise in the qualifying age (at the very least)....
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The main driver of child poverty

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40 percent of Maori mothers are unpartnered. From the Household Incomes Report: the poverty rate for children in sole-parent famili...
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Lindsay Mitchell
Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits at Wellington, New Zealand, galleries.
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