Lindsay Mitchell

Many of you will have seen Karl du Fresne's excellent column either in the DomPost or at his site . The response is still ongoing with a...

The University of Otago has never seen so many Māori students studying to be doctors, new research from the New Zealand Medical Journal sho...

In 2009 KickStart breakfast programmes were introduced into schools. Fonterra provided milk and Sanitarium cereals. Government provided sub...

If you have posted a comment recently and not seen it appear, that's because unbeknownst to me it has been sitting in 'awaiting mode...

Having dealt with real estate and renting recently, the issue of 'P' testing caught my attention, as matters do when they start to p...

Yesterday Cindy Kiro was interviewed by Chris Lynch, NewstalkZB, Christchurch. I blogged  about two statements which were false. Here's ...

Among a lot of disjointed verbiage Cindy Kiro, appointed to lead the welfare review Labour promised the Greens,  says to Chris Lynch on News...

Labour has announced the make-up of the welfare review panel: The members: Professor Cindy Kiro (chairwoman) - responsible for Māori/in...

The result of Ireland's abortion vote is the right one. I'd have voted with the majority. But I feel very sad too. Ideally, any sm...

I wrote in my last column for NZCPR that the baby bonus came in on April 1, 2018. It did not. It kicks in on July 1, 2018. Apologies. Too...

NewstalkZB is reporting on new Australian longitudinal research that links childhood background to the risk of being placed on anti-psycho...

It's refreshing to see National MP Mark Mitchell talking about unintended consequences. Jan Logie's family violence bill makes emp...

Political left-wing commentator Gordon Campbell writes a column in my local paper, the Hutt News. Last week's (I can't find it on-li...

Just published at NZCPR : According to the Dominion Post, April 25, ” … the Government is setting up a welfare overhaul ‘expert advisory g...

The following graph (P60) depicts the worst of statistics - suicide among young people. The ethnic/age information is new to me however and ...

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...