Lindsay Mitchell

Very informative  piece in DomPost today by Justin Stevenson regarding the forthcoming Well-Being Budget argues we actually need to focus m...

Stats NZ have provided interactive  data that shows expenditures on 12 items in a variety of households. Spending on alcohol and tobacc...

Simon Bridges is making himself sound silly over the slushy 'scandal'. How much time (taxpayer money) did his staff spend digging u...

That was sneaky. The March benefit statistics were due out last week. But they were never posted on the front page of the website. If you di...

Currently reading David Lange's memoirs, I am reflecting on how different the two Prime Ministers are. When Roger Douglas had almost ...

ACT MP David Seymour writes at Magic Talk: Would you live in a country in which the average age at death is 45, few children attend seco...

Widespread benefit fraud identified by Auckland University April 11, 2019 Lindsay Mitchell, Welfare commentator and researcher Widespr...

Are you a Dad? Do you want to be known as the father of your child or just the 'partner' of his mother? Research released today b...

Stephen Frank s utterly nails it using gun control to illustrate how unknowingly incompetent the current crop is: A general problem when...

MSD has helpfully produced a table that shows the extreme variability of official child poverty measures: Depending on what political b...

Yesterday I received a press release from the White Ribbon Campaign containing the following statistics:  KEY STATISTICS ·         New Z...

The Canadian think-tank, the Fraser Institute has just released a paper which suggests an elegantly simple framework in finding three cau...

... who isn't afraid to say : "You do not defy terrorism and defend our democracy by throwing out democratic procedure such as ...

When I think about Christchurch I imagine what it would feel like if one of those young men were my son and it reduces me. To write any word...

One of the longstanding debates regarding the removal of children who have been abused or neglected is whether Maori children should be plac...

Michael Jackson's music has made me and millions of others happy over decades; indeed, over half a century. Whatever else is or isn'...

Interesting conclusion to a thoughtful column about the forthcoming "well-being budget" that essentially argues people should be ...

My 550 word opinion piece was too long for publication but a 100 word letter would be accommodated, I was told. The usual word limit for ...

Due to report back this week, here's a selection of what I believe the Welfare Expert Advisory Group will recommend: 1/ No more compul...

Regarding the views of Jordan Peterson, recently interviewed by NZ Herald journalist, Simon Wilson: "He's said several times it...