Lindsay Mitchell

The Australian government is removing the 'concientious objection' exemption for people who don't want their children immunise...

Rodney Hide draws attention to the Green's upcoming leadership decision. Hide backs James Shaw as  someone who could work with Natio...

The steep decline in tobacco use without prohibition While a certain level of criminalisation has gradually been imposed, ie it is a cr...

Good on David Seymour. And he always manages a touch of humour : Act leader David Seymour said he raised the issue of such travel soon a...

Are you ready for an avalanche of these hardship stories ? To some people, this family would be well-off. A net income of over $1,000 week...

For the second time in quick succession NCPA has referenced Scott Winship's piece suggesting the US welfare reforms will aid upward mob...

James Bartholomew's new book, The Welfare of Nations is now available. As with the prior book, The Welfare State We're In , he o...

Because the incident happened just down the road from me, and proximity piques interest, the fate of the young  student, Boobesh Palani, had...

From Census 2013 : Proportionally, more Māori and Pacific peoples spent time looking after children from their own households (42 percen...

The process of reading is difficult because it sends me to sleep, quickly. And because bed-time is the only time I don't feel guilty ...

A caller to Leighton Smith earlier this week talked about the 30:30:30:10 principle. It's new to me but sounds entirely plausible.I am...

1/ Because they can 2/ Because it's easy 3/ Because the consequences are trivial Anne Sepuloni is a case in point, and typical. ...

7,239 fewer Northlanders voted yesterday than voted last September . That's a lot of people who really didn't care one way or the ot...

That's a headline from the NBR, March 27. The NZ Initiative has helpfully circulated the article in its weekly newsletter. His co...

It's a typical and tired response from the Left, when the subject of benefit fraud arises, to try and move the focus away from beneficia...

An interesting piece from the Acton Institute recommends the wealth gap be referred to, in future, as the 'marriage gap'. No surpri...

Earlier this month I did a brief analysis of state housing stock based on MSD data publicly available (released Feb 2015). Of 63,988 hou...

Jim Rose points out that the Mana News editor, whilst railing against the cruel dispensing of the Feed The Kids Bill by National, inadv...

Not long ago I wrote, in personal correspondence (I thought it was on the blog, but no): I am confused by the social housing policy. Or m...

I enjoyed this short post from Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation...well, I was enjoying it until I reminded myself that t...