Lindsay Mitchell

Yesterday Leighton Smith had a caller who claimed to work in advocacy against family violence. She would not accept that more Maori children...

Source The first thing this graph highlights is how WFF and other means-tested assistance (like the accommodation supplement) reduces t...

What should we do with people like this ? Still dangerous and dishonest. Still costing the country every day.

Boy strangled at school suffering brain damage Posted: 08 Jul 2015 12:15 PM PDT A boy who accidentally strangled himself after jumpi...

Yesterday Max Rashbrooke, campaigner against inequality had a column published in the DomPost. Extract: In a system where income goes d...

In 2001 there were 1,814 substantiated findings of physical abuse against children. By 2008 the number had grown to 2,232. At March 2015...

Source for table  (left click to enlarge) Bill English says there are 42,000 fewer children on benefits since 2012. That means there...

Researching something else yesterday I came across this story and it really impressed me. Capitalism with generosity. While  opposed to th...

From Stuff The call from New Zealand researchers for all  teen girls to be fitted with long-term contraceptive devices  is not as radic...

Out of Core Crown Tax Revenue of $61.9 billion, the largest expenditure is by MSD : "The Ministry is forecasting to admi...

Bomber Bradbury posts the following: The provisional suicide toll has risen to its highest figure since the coroner’s office started re...

The UK is going to scrap the practice of measuring child poverty by income alone. They have been using the same measure as NZ where the off...

Just in from a reader: In a move that has fired up parents, teachers in the UK have won the right to inspect pupils' lunchboxes and...

A Listener editorial warns against the  inter-generational war that politicians exploit, in particular, Winston Peters. When it comes t...

The theatre of parliament does not excite me but occasionally I'll scan through the questions and answers. Yesterday, one about selling ...

MSD have just launched an initiative to encourage state house tenants to move from high demand areas to low. They provide an application for...

Published in today's DomPost:

This will be a blessing. A feature that allows you to quickly retrieve an e-mail sent to the wrong address...or sent in haste. Only the firs...

Not widely reported in the MSM so cut and paste from the Minister: Social Development Minister Anne Tolley has introduced a bill extendi...

From Scoop, ACT Leader David Seymour The contentious issue of voluntary euthanasia is one I have been considering for some time, and ...