Lindsay Mitchell

When people apply for social housing or to move to another social housing property they go on the Social Housing Register. June quarter 201...

"The grey columns show historical spending, and the dark blue columns show forecast spending. Since 2002 working-age welfare spending...

A full page ad in today's DomPost (so possibly in other major dailies) features the names of 1,000 doctors who say no to assisted suicid...

1970s Feminists started to pressure govt to recognise domestic violence as a public concern - not private. The first Women's refuges wer...

RNZ reports : Ms Ardern said 1,000,000 people - including 300,000 children - were victims of family and sexual violence each year in New ...

Sometimes it feels as if I am living in a world where up is down and black is white...though I don't think I can say that last bit any ...

Further to yesterday's post I've done some more reading. The following (you will have to enlarge it to read or refer to p11 here ) i...

RNZ reports: "[Privacy]Commissioner John Edwards has concluded that the ministry has been unjustifiably intruding on the lives of b...

Of children born in 2010-2011 affected by Section 70A reductions, by age six 41% had a care and protection concern reported (P12). The e...

That's what Maharey called it back in 2004 when the Labour government increased the penalty rate to try and get more mothers to name the...

To justify removing the penalty for not naming fathers of benefit-dependent children MSD now says : A developing evidence base suggests t...

On Friday the government announced it will cease applying Section 70 A penalties from April 2020. Background "Section 70A of the ...

The Welfare Expert Advisory Group has delivered what the Green-driven government wanted - a recommendation to wildly increase wealth redist...

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...