Lindsay Mitchell

Radio Live is kaput Haven't listened to them during the day for a long time. Not since Sean Plunket departed. Back in the day Paul H...

In my recent paper about  Imprisonment and Family Structure ,  I touched on the phenomenon of multi-partner fertility and how it increases p...

Just updating artist blog with this pastel of Wesney, who is now the grand age of 15.

The unemployment rate has dropped to 3.9% - a great result for the government. But since the non-publication of latest official chil...

The aged-care sector is asking government to change rules to allow more immigrants to fill the shortage of care-givers. Apparently some bene...

Seems obvious to you and I, but a fact that the Left has long resisted. Their response is always to indignantly insist, "...people want...

NZ Herald reports today: Child poverty rates unknown as targets about to become law I blogged about this over 2 weeks ago but far mo...

(The first bar is 2017; the second, 2018) Maori now account for the highest share of Jobseeker dependence, reflected in the regiona...

MSD has rewritten the old Social Security Act. Today they publish some legislative terminology changes. Example: Old term      Attent...

Final paragraph from this week's Free Press , ACT's weekly email newsletter nails it: New Zealand’s real problems are not identit...

A fact. But there are naysayers who will make a gender issue out of practical reality. This one is lucky she received a personal and po...

A thirty six percent reduction in benefit sanctions between the September 2017 and 2018 quarters. And a 7.4% rise in Jobseeker numbe...

It's odd. I've been around politicians. I know they can be coarse of language, and that they try to bend rules within legal bounds. ...

Big news not reported in mainstream yet. From the latest Household Incomes Report, ( Headline findings ), the source of official statistic...

The push is on to make getting a benefit and staying on it much easier. That's Labour's idea of 'compassion'. Sir Apirana N...

The little-known Practice:The New Zealand Corrections Journal , included an interesting but unreported article in its July edition. Below a...

The metamorphosis of social security and the growth of expectations and entitlement began early...  ...and continues

With the establishment of a new Ministry for Housing and Urban Development the head of MSD is reiterating his department is the first port ...

Let's be clear. There is no need for active nastiness and degradation in the welfare system. Just an even-handed application of the rule...