Lindsay Mitchell

Just a few weeks ago I  posted about the vigilantism of #MeToo arriving in NZ Today's new-format trash-tabloid DomPost has its front ...

We are told that the rising imprisonment rate and population is mostly about sentencing policy because crime rates are falling. That is on...

I am a huge fan. This week I have re-read Life at the Bottom which gave me cause to check my link to Dalrymple at this blog. It was obsole...

What it sounds like when Labour realizes it can't afford its promises: Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni has defended the...

MSD in the gun again, this time for cutting a benefit after an apparently false dob-in was made. MSD spokeswoman (yes, RNZ actually used th...

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...