Lindsay Mitchell

When a sole parent refuses to name the father of her children a penalty is incurred. This is because the state is unable to recoup any of he...

The treatment of those who questioned the behaviour of the now infamous Ministry of Transport fraudster was atrocious. Two have spoken to R...

That's the prognosis since benefit reforms were implemented in 2012. It's good that the ministry is actually measuring dependency...

Why can't the government 1/ understand the ramifications of the war on drugs, and 2/ extrapolate them to the war on tobacco ? Simple b...

The following brief article from the Acton blog is reproduced in full due to its substantial merit: "If people of faith want to redu...

Bracket creep amounts to the equivalent of "a flat white each day". This trivialises the fact that the government is taking more...

A meeting was held in South Auckland last night. The dangers being experienced by dairy and bottle shop owners was the subject addressed by...

Feeling  admiration and respect for Prince Phillip as he stands down from public life, a twinge of nostalgia for his generation touched me. ...

The qualifying age for Super has to rise. Latest data from Statistics NZ show: In 2014, 650,000 people were aged 65 and over in New Z...

Jacob Hornberger asks an interesting question : what happened to all the Vietnam war protesters?

Johnathan Krebs is right. This is an appalling idea. But he could be wrong to underestimate the support this "unthinkable" id...

"Welfare state 'never designed for the middle class' - Dame Jenny" Tell that to the present National Government Jenny. ...

The Fraser Institute - a Canadian think-tank - has a post about the growth in income tax - or theft as we defined it yesterday: Canada’s...

When thievery is resorted to for the means with which to do good, compassion is killed. Those who would do good with the loot then lose the...

Radio NZ has this cartoon up: On the same page this headline appears: A fine day after forecast chaos Talking up the weather has be...

Two related articles from NZCPD this week. The first from Muriel Newman accurately describes the ideological impetus behind the rise in ch...

Stuff has a headline suggesting that the welfare system may be to blame for New Zealanders not taking jobs. There is no "maybe" a...

Apparently the new version of CYF launches today. While it'd be hard to not improve past approaches to family dysfunction, the tenor of ...

TV1 News tonight aired phone-filmed footage (3 times) of a New Zealand schoolgirl stomping on the head of another. Face pressed to ground. H...

I've added the renovating blog to the 'Blogs I read' list so you'll see any new entries come up if you're interested. Go...