Lindsay Mitchell

Latest benefit statistics show year-on-year decreases. Should National or Labour take credit for this? Quarterly benefit data release t...

Treasury has made a cock-up . Some sort of coding error related to the accommodation supplement has meant their calculations about the red...

Readers know I am into horses. My last 5 percenter, Everything, did me proud. My new 5 percenter , Jaktar , is also looking good. Listen...

Why am I so agitated by the campaign against sexual harassment building a head of steam in Hollywood, and elsewhere? The question isn...

Reacting to the passing of Jim Anderton, Jacinda Ardern waxed lyrical about how he  "gave 40 years service to New Zealand." Up a...

It's true. For once UNICEF isn't banging on about child poverty levels in New Zealand. Apparently , "Babies born in New Zeal...

Signing up to a social media campaign isn't something I've ever done before. I did so because it's one way I can register may p...

An interesting graph from the Briefing to Incoming Social Development Minister: After the In Work tax credit came in the gap between be...

Myself and  Muriel Newman explain how in this week's NZCPR lead articles. The first part of my piece, which concerns the removal of ...

A man was let off a charge of stealing around $180 worth of groceries because he said that life on a benefit is hard. This poses a number...

The student allowance - which was paid at the same rate as the unemployment benefit - is about to increase by $50 per week. There is a sug...

Here's a letter that appeared in today's Dompost. I am unable to find the piece it responds to. Odd. But it does highlight another u...

Encouraging more adoption? I doubt this guy is a good fit for a feminist government.

She may as well have stayed. In addition to scrapping the legal requirement to name fathers or face a penalty... As part of a major welf...

Arrived in my inbox. I didn't steal it. From The NATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW October 27th 2017 The Limits of Cleverness versus Capitali...

Radio news has Carmel Sepuloni, Minister for Social Development, saying she will get rid of the penalty for not naming fathers of children ...

It is infrequently that I come across an unknown word. Today however I was reading some hullabaloo (on both sides) about NZ sinking into the...

The PM has made herself Minister for Child Poverty Reduction. Symbolically a good move for her. But crucial questions have to be answered. ...

Thanks to a reader for highlighting this blog post from Jan Logie, now the Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (focussing on Domest...

This Labour/Greens/NZ First coalition will be a different kettle of fish from the last Labour government. If you doubt that, here's a pe...