Lindsay Mitchell

The NBR has kindly run an op-ed summarizing my report as 'free' content over the long weekend: "On the back of last week...

From Jim Rose : "One of the oddities of the 21st-century left is if you are gay, your life is incomplete unless you can marry and ha...

On the back of the release of Child Poverty and Family Structure on Monday, I had a busy day talking to media, dealing with e-mails, etc. ...

Very busy with media this morning. Read the report, commissioned by Family First,  here . On with Leighton Smith at 9.30am. Executive...

Absolute must-read from Martin van Beynen published in today's Dom Post under the hard-copy headline, The dysfunctional are exasperatin...

From today's DomPost: This is an injudicious response from Bennett. 1/ It sounds threatening 2/ The question is entirely reason...

MSD has just released its Four Year Plan . The stats are only current to June 2015. Not much caught my attention bar this diagram: (Lef...

Yesterday the NZ Herald reported :  Rents in Auckland jump $20 a week to record high "...in April rents jumped up $20 a week to $52...

A woman with eight children has been barred from Housing NZ because she was evicted from a meth contaminated home. WINZ is going to pay $1...

Statistics NZ recently released prisoner stats some of which I have graphed below. The Maori and European lines intrigue me. Why do they ...

Current unemployment levels could be underestimated by up the 0.5% Why? Because the source of the unemployment rate is a sample of aro...

This sentence leapt out at me from a piece entitled, "Don't be a sucker for socialism" by Glenn Reynolds: Under capitalis...

Alan Duff savages "Maori violence" and lack of leadership once again. Back in NZ - and only Auckland - last week it seems as i...

Green MP Jan Logie has jumped on the man-bad/woman-good domestic violence band wagon. Adding insult to injury, she extends her prejudice ...

In the interests of balance, having been both critical and skeptical earlier last week, I should report that the NZ Herald finally printed...

Yesterday, David left a comment that made me go and look at the latest NZ Herald editorial relating to domestic violence. It was titled: ...

Flaxmere is the 'benefit baby' capital of New Zealand. The regional DHB does not breakdown births by centre. But if the numbers of...

The bias against males proliferating the NZ Herald's campaign against domestic violence was stated blankly by one contributor this morn...

According to Bernard Hickey, writing in today's HOS: New Zealand created 120,000 new jobs in the past two years, but the number of un...

The unemployment rate rose slightly from 5.4 to 5.7 in the march quarter. I have only just had chance to look at the tables. What interested...