Lindsay Mitchell

It was disappointing when Paula Bennett was moved from MSD to Housing. But below partially explains why. Housing reform is critical to the ...

This is a chart for the benefit of a commentor on the last post. This shows that a majority of 65+ New Zealanders live below the media...

Here's another useful graph (based on 2013 data)  from Treasury. While not news it's useful to see the numbers. The gross tax does n...

Announced yesterday: The Treasury is trialling the publication of its responses to selected Official Information Act (OIA) requests. Re...

When he had his notorious fracas with Air NZ I commented somewhere, might have been Whale Oil, that Sir Bob should buy his own private jet, ...

From Reason.com, an entertaining read this morning, The Mindlessness of Donald Trump—and What It Reveals About the GOP The candidate...

Thank God for that. Somebody with credentials has set the record straight over Anne Tolley's labeling of a proposed study treating child...

Here's an editorial from the Australian think tank, the Centre for Independent Studies. Not all of it fits into the NZ paradigm but it...

This is why we have a mislead, resentment-fueled populace - or segment of. Lies. From Paul Little in the HOS :  ....as we have long kn...

My previous post discussed the DomPost coverage of a paper they appear to have acquired under the OIA. Yesterday the editor pushed on with...

The following report intrigues me.  MSD Minister, Anne Tolley is outraged by a study proposal which she describes treating children as ...

A friend sent through a newly released paper about Maori, mobility and economic liberalisation: Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand und...

A post at Kiwiblog about pensions crippling the Greek economy prompted me to look at the path NZ is on. The following figures are all fro...

You hear it all the time. He fell in with the wrong people. She started hanging out with the wrong crowd. My kid started mixing with the wro...

Among the bits and piece I've read this morning, from France, Bill aims to lock up offenders who pick on the poor I wonder what provi...

DONALD TRUMP VISITS MY HOMETOWN! by  Jacob G. Hornberger July 24, 2015 Leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump just visit...

Again, the Left is carping but the data under Labour was worse (from their viewpoint - not mine). The NZ  Council of Christian Social Serv...

From a CPAG paper about benefit sanctions: Sanctions are not a new addition to the welfare legislation. They were part of Labour’s reform...

Yesterday the legislation necessary to extend youth service provision and attendant obligations was passed. The Greens put up the only oppos...

For no other reason than it is topical and it interests me, here is a breakdown of the Asian Auckland population at last census. And t...