Lindsay Mitchell

From Stuff: OPINION: Guess what? Fixing child poverty in New Zealand is not that hard. Let's call it the John Minto solution. First,...

Briefly, I cannot believe this woman's attitude. She has been newly-elected a Councillor and is demanding a subsidy for childcare so ...

Reported on Radio New Zealand: Ms Collins was challenged at the Police Association's annual conference in Wellington today by a delega...

In today's NZ Herald Dr Ian Hyslop takes fire at the government and its plans for vulnerable children: The Government's proposed...

Over a 1,000 budget advisors are waiting to see whether their government funding will continue. This is pitched as a terrible situation by ...

Bill Clinton ( husband of Mrs Clinton) leaves a long line of aggrieved encounteresses. Yes, I made up the word. This doesn't matter a...

Naturally the US media are attacking presidential candidate Gary Johnson for his 'radical' ideas. From Jacob Hornberger, explainin...

New Zealand should emulate the United Kingdom. This call has surfaced repeatedly over the past few days. For instance : [Max Rashbro...

Anti-child poverty campaigner Max Rashbrooke writes at RNZ: Anyone planning their summer holiday will already be thinking about the logi...

Radio NZ reports : The Labour Party has accepted the Children's Commissioner's challenge to reduce child poverty rates by 10 pe...

An interesting article appeared in the Daily Signal entitled, "What Happened When New Zealand Got Rid of Government Subsidies for Farme...

Sometimes I can be idly reading through some fluff when I get stopped in my tracks. That happened this morning when I read in the NZ Herald ...

Coincidentally, on the same day that the country was reacting en masse to the discharge without conviction of a young rugby player who bruta...

I shouldn't read them. Lizzie Marvelly's columns always irritate me but they do provide an insight into the modern feminist's ...

Former British MP Bryan Gould has written in today's NZ Herald about what Labour needs to do: But voters will feel more confident in...

Here's a group advocating a universal basic income for all children of $40 a week. Lowell Manning, President of Basic Income New Z...

MSD released two reports last week which you can find here . I have simply extracted the recidivism rates but there is additional data about...

It incenses me when the UN sticks its nose into New Zealand's social and political affairs. Anne Tolley has apparently been challenged i...

From the latest Household Incomes Report  overview a couple of interesting points. Pertaining to the lower graph, "The transfers r...

The first DPB Emergency benefit was created by a National government in 1968. The DPB statutory benefit was passed into legislation in 197...