Lindsay Mitchell

Interesting that the Maori and Pacific rates are pretty much the inverse of the smoking graph in the post below. Calling Pacific people...

This is another eye opener. In 40 years the shape of  the combined columns has reversed. I knew what the current figures looked like but no...

Very beautiful.

So much for crippling tobacco taxes. 

Very busy with other stuff right now but have just come across the 2016 Social Report which is full of interesting - but in this case disqu...

The table above is an answer to a PQ asked by Carmel Sepuloni. Not much grist for the opposition mill here. As the teenage birth rate ...

Jane Silloway Smith, who used to work for Maxim, has analysed the submissions to the health committee on the matter of voluntary euthanasia...

A Master's thesis student says Work and Income is pushing many beneficiaries into jobs that don't last. But 61 percent still had p...

The NZ Herald has a piece detailing  statistics relating to the breaching of protection orders. I read through it looking for mention of wh...

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There I was, developing a great deal of sympathy for a woman whose child was removed from her at birth and put up for adoption. It must be h...

Maori tribal leaders will today sign a "covenant" with the nation's children, promising to treasure and respect them and make...

Here's a mother with three children struggling to find money to eat. She has made her budget public. She is on one income and paying a...

It was a poignant movie from 1971. An older brother (played by the late Jack Wild) flees Liverpool with his baby sister in tow, escaping an ...

Police are considering paying for child abuse tip-offs. They say too many people aware that a child is being abused or neglected do not rep...

Source: Fraser Institute

47.4 percent of Sole Parent Support beneficiaries are Maori. In the Youth and Young Parent category the proportion rises to 49.4 percent. ...

I'm with Sian Elias. This kind of police work makes me sick. It blurs the lines between right and wrong so badly that it can only make o...

I mention it only because the June quarter benefit statistics have not yet been released. On April 21st the minister issued a release h...

Jim Rose has highlighted the following depiction of "the percent of marriages that end in divorce" . The range of percentages fro...