Lindsay Mitchell

The government has developed what it calls a Child Impact Assessment Tool . Essentially it's a template for testing any policy for its e...

An announcement appeared at the MSD website that a  Declaration of Seasonal Tasman Labour Shortage  was being made on April 5. A declara...

Still playing catch up after the year spent renovating full-time. Have just updated my artist blog  with a few newer works. Here's o...

More in from yesterday's contributor, to whom I am most grateful. Source Utah governor signs law legalizing ‘free-range parenting’ ...

A reader sent me the following graph : As he comments, "No surprise". Yet the media witter on and on about the gender ear...

Source Two things are happening: 1/ Some inmates released on parole commit serious, even fatal, crimes 2/ Some inmates who ha...

Ever heard of The Rainbow Tick? I came across it at the Human Rights Commission website : The Rainbow Tick programme allows businesses a...

A report in today's DomPost  details Michael Cullen's thinking as he embarks on his chairmanship of the Tax Working Group. The titl...

A US writer adequately states the problem: "What counts as sexual harassment? Good question. Men accused of boorish gestures or vulg...

A year on. Who'd have thought it'd take so long. But how much we have learned. Probably the most educative year of my entire life. W...

Bryce Wilkinson from the New Zealand Initiative writes: When I was a lad, Treasury was a home for bean counters. Many a fine public servan...

It seems a life time ago (yet only a year) when I asked readers whether I should keep the fireplace in our recently purchased renovation pro...

Published in NBR , Friday, Feb 9, but behind a paywall: Why child poverty targets make no sense The new coalition government intends to ...

Paul Meredith writes, "Sorrenson (Ngata et al.1986, 258) cites a letter from Sir Peter Buck to Eric Ramsden who states: 'I am w...

There is NZ research from the SOFIE (now discontinued) data that mirrors the findings below recently published by the University of Queens...

"Reduce the proportion of children in low income households (before housing costs) from roughly 15 per cent of all children to 5 percen...

Clearly children are a cost on a household economy but my statement goes beyond that. What most people don't appreciate is how the gov...

Heather du Plessis-Allan is now the morning talk host at Wellington NewstalkZB. I've never understood why the station doesn't just...

Readers know I love my horse racing. The industry has been screaming for more government support because that's why it's so much h...

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