Lindsay Mitchell

A Labour MP from Palmerston North is outraged that Bill English has told the truth . English said that there are Kiwi men who are supposed...

Another voluminous   report into CYF; a long-winded ministerial response; multiple cabinet papers and a proposed radical overhaul promised ...

This is from the Rebstock  report into CYF released today:  "In 2014, CYF received 152,000 family violence notifications from Poli...

It's only 10 to 15  years since many of us were fighting the introduction of Paid Parental Leave, Working for Families, interest-free st...

Helen Clark may feel like she has a "stadium of 4 million people" behind her - and judging by overwhelming opinion expressed toda...

Yesterday I made a prediction about the response to Rodney Hide's account of chasing a shoplifter. Quite bizarrely the type of reactio...

Rodney Hide writes a column about supermarkets' inability to defend their property from shoplifters because of asinine assault laws. ...

Today beneficiary parents receive a pay rise of $25 weekly or $1,300 yearly. It is impossible without asking an OIA question to know exact...

There probably are as many persons coerced into acting, not as they want, but as others want, through majority rule as through totalitarian ...

According to Grant Robertson  today: "New Zealand’s growth per person is significantly lower than countries like the UK and America,...

Idly reading an article I was captured by the photo. What city is that a photo from, I wondered? I can see 3 or 4 Asian looking people...

Another graph from David. I don't know enough off the top of my head to see the pattern but he says the pro-change vote aligns to Natio...

I was looking at the voter turn-out and noticed that the higher turn-out electorates had a stronger preference for change. David made a g...

Even when voting is made as easy as a tick and a trip to the postbox, a third of people can't be bothered. Probably the same people wh...

Breaking with normal practice, I am blogging on the same subject in successive posts. Giving every teenager $200 a week when they turn 18 ...

The universal basic income. $40 billion. Yes. That's roughly what it will cost to give every New Zealander aged 18 or over $11,000 ann...

Social media has become the new fall guy for everything wrong with teenagers. Older generations are always looking for new evils to explain ...

It is still odd to me to read questions and answers that would have sat very comfortably with the last Labour govt. Just substitute Anne Tol...

The story being carried by most media this morning relates to P contamination in brand new state houses: Nearly a quarter of homes buil...

The local authority statistics were released on Friday. The tables make interesting reading. Rates collected have risen 14 percent when c...