Lindsay Mitchell

A cut and paste from Samizdata. Appealed to me. The progress of social programs and the debt Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland/Laram...

The uproar over Metiria Turei wasn't just personal. People were polarized about her past actions and continuing attitude of stubborn, ar...

Somewhat lacking in my own opinion about the overnight sensation that is the new Labour leader, I am borrowing this one:

Metiria standing in Te Tai Tonga. She's not on the list. 2014 Candidate results for Te Tai Tonga Labour Rino Tirikatene 8445 Māo...

Who said this? "This Government wants to make sure that everyone who is entitled to support gets it. Benefit abuse and fraud are una...

The Greens want to stop what they call punitive sanctions on benefits and raise core benefit payments by 20 percent. The sanctions abolished...

This question must be crucial to the 72 hour deliberations about the next 7.2 weeks. I reckon she's going to. The MoU will be ripped...

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I drew attention to this just a few days ago. Wonder how Chris Hipkins is dealing with this?

The following excerpts are from a cabinet paper  prepared by MSD, arguing that increasing accommodation subsidies (Accommodation Supplement ...

Well, one existing MP and one potential. Willie Jackson runs a charter school and now Kelvin Davis, an educator himself, says he will re...

When Ann Hartley was in parliament, 2002-05, Labour passed legislation to increase the penalties for claiming a benefit and not naming the c...

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 ...