Lindsay Mitchell

Don't read this story of child abuse and murder if you don't want to start your day depressed. Throughout I felt angry until the ...

The DomPost is a highly manipulative paper. If they publish a piece that is in conflict with their own editorial viewpoint some trick will b...

A brief piece in today's DomPost describes how a "crisis" at KidsCan is leading to nearly 600 Wellington school children goin...

Over a month ago I wrote about Tuhoe's desire to be paid out benefit money up front to invest in job creation. Today the NZ Herald ha...

From Question time today : Grant Robertson: Is it correct that the 46,000 long-term unemployed is the highest level since 1999, other th...

Pompous prat Chris Trotter is parading his feminist solidarity by scolding Michelle Boag for not exhorting National women MPs to join the p...

Several female opposition MPs declared that they are victims of sexual abuse, presumably to stake their credentials for a parliament walk-ou...

Left-wing beneficiary advocates have constantly criticised the use of sanctions (cuts to benefit payments)  to enforce work and social obli...

Politicians in particular are creatures who use statistics to suit their own purposes. They have no compunction in spinning the worst scenar...

The latest expose of unequal wealth accumulation by Max Rashbrooke has the NZ Herald featuring photo shots of John Key's son Max and so...

The NZ Herald reports , The Labour Party has officially dumped its policies to .... raise the retirement age. Little says it sent t...

The government is reducing the number of times a prospective tenant can turn down a property from 3 to 1. It's also increasing stated ...

The Herald is running a series on educational under-achievement which starts today. Here's the opening gambit: Disadvantage remains ...

I notice that Michelle Payne has a ride in the Melbourne Cup today. Good for her. Often there is no female presence. NZ is far more progress...

As part of the Ombudsman review , it's now the public's turn to voice their dissatisfaction with the OIA process. User experienc...

The just-released HLFS population estimates show that there are 642,700 people aged 65+. It's an estimate based on the last census, b...

Statistics NZ surveys on all sorts of things that are no business of government and serve no useful policy information requirements. The dat...

So much more to be said.... like, individualised savings accounts would bypass a lot of the wrangling collectivised health and social s...

A shift in thinking is gathering momentum in Australia as it should here. The same circumstances and questions apply in this country, where ...

New data shows a significant drop in substantiated findings of child abuse:  Yet there were 150,905 notifications in 2014/15 - a  3 ...