Lindsay Mitchell

Meteria Turei explains to an audience who hasn't a clue about New Zealand. Last weekend I revealed a lie, a lie that I decided to tal...

From today's DomPost (though the on-line version differs from the hard copy offering I have responded to, you'll get the gist): Ki...

Here's a thoughtful offering. It's from an Economics Professor. Imagine if we had academics in New Zealand who prescribed to these v...

Doesn't Meteria Turei provide clear evidence that living on a benefit is a lifestyle choice? Whenever I call having a baby/ies and stayi...

A councillor and former Parliamentary candidate has been sentenced to 40 hours of unpaid community work after pleading guilty to two counts ...

"The Minister said that the ministry takes a zero tolerance approach to benefit fraud for the same reasons it takes a zero tolerance ap...

The Greens have announced their latest bid to achieve government: "It includes a big overhaul of social welfare, with all benefit pa...

Labour is promising to pay the poorest  people in NZ over $3,000 a year to have a baby. That's the essential upshot of their Best Start ...

From ACT's Free Press: "The End-of-Life Choice Society have released a Horizon Poll showing 75 per cent of New Zealanders want as...

This is the question to be put to all of the anti voluntary euthanasia  stalwarts who will emerge over the coming months. Thank goodness D...

Food stamps - more benignly known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program) - make up a huge share of the US government's w...

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...