Lindsay Mitchell

Judges can discount a prison sentence due to "Maori cultural background and deprivation". In my paper regarding Imprisonment and F...

I could find nothing to say about it. But ACT has and it's worth repeating: What Did She Say? Ardern wants a growing economy that ...

"There was a time, in the not-so distant past, when housing was affordable and buying a house to raise your family was not the unobtai...

“The Ministry … gets most aspects of service right, for most clients, most of the time. Most clients we spoke with said that good case mana...

Source:  "Men who hit women are really expressing a view, a feeling, that women are inferior to them, and they can do whatever they ...

Below are the top ten areas for public housing in New Zealand. I have graphed the area followed by the region it lies in. The highest publ...

Having just reflected on the cost of reviewing welfare and whanau ora at $2.9 million, here's a better use for that money. Driver licens...

TV1 says the government is spending $170 million on reviews. The government has refused to comment beyond saying it is far, far less. I c...

Opinion from today's Sunday Star Times : OPINION: It is hard to go to prison in New Zealand. It took me several attempts but I was fin...

The coroner has just released suicide statistics for the period June 2017 to June 2018. A stand out is the increase in females who have s...

That's the claim by Minister for Corrections, Kelvin Davis. The question mark is mine. RNZ reports : Mr Davis said Māori make up...

There's a report at the NZ Herald about family violence. It's come from NewstalkZB: Figures released to Mike Hosking Breakfast ...

MEDIA RELEASE: Not naming fathers a "rort" MSD Minister Carmel Sepuloni, and Green Party MP Jan Logie are promulgating misinform...

MEDIA RELEASE: More children being added to a Sole Parent benefit Data released under the Official Information Act shows that more benefic...

Hold on to your hats. Another new scheme has just been announced by the Labour government: Mana in Mahi - Strength in Work will pay a w...

What is this word now oft repeated to mean something of which I am unaware.  I could google it but some responses from people 'like me...

The NZ Herald reports : Last year, there were 31,791 referrals for drug testable positions nationwide and just 55 sanctions for failing a ...

My last post highlighted how Simon Wilson claimed in a column in today's NZ Herald that the average teacher age in New Zealand is 57. ...

Don't think I have come across this commentator before - Simon Wilson writing in the NZ Herald. All gloom and doom and crisis, crisis. ...

I added 'apparently' because you never know what lengths these obsessives will go to. While I've never heard of this unfortuna...