Lindsay Mitchell

Having scanned through the OIA responses mentioned below I found a couple of interesting tables. The first shows that fraud prosecutions are...

On June 27 I posted about MSD lagging behind in its publication of OIA responses at its website. They have now got up responses from Ja...

RNZ is constantly on Oranga Tamariki's back trying to show them as a failing agency. Oranga Tamariki published data not long ago detai...

Government departments have to make OIA responses public. MSD has fallen off  not posting anything since September 2018 Treasury is keep...

Between them, the risk averse and the environmentalists are quite determined to severely reduce the quality of our lives to preserve the qua...

Which is probably a key finding for explaining long-term benefit dependency. From a sample of 423 people, incomes and the life satisfacti...

What the heck is going on with WINZ? According to advice given to the Welfare Expert Advisory Group in February 2019: Source Obvious...

Have been following the horrible news today of  two light aircraft colliding just south of Hood Aerodrome in Masterton. I was flying there a...

Dame Tariana Turia was interviewed by Ryan Bridge on Magic TalK yesterday evening regarding the removal of Maori children by Oranga Tamariki...

Last week it was reported locally that a Dutch teenager was assisted to end her life. This was grasped by the end of life bill opponents in ...

From a plethora of commentary on the well-being budget this is my pick. The author, Bruce Cotterill, is unknown to me but that doesn't m...

This was in yesterday's DomPost. Most columns these days I scan or lose interest in rapidly. I'm not sure if that's a fault with...

Below is a post I wrote in 2015: Most people think you have to be 65 to qualify for NZ Super. But there is a group of individuals who rec...

(Left click to enlarge) Source Labour's universal bribes - Winter Energy and Best Start - account for almost $1 billion by 2023 ...

Yet another story in stuff about the woeful circumstances of a tenant because of the implied greed of landlords. As one person comments thes...

Marilyn Waring keeps popping up on the back of her new book. I was speaking at a conference, my topic being the US Welfare Reforms and wh...

...which they refused to publish. If you haven't already seen it at Kiwiblog here it is: David Seymour on free speech “Let it be kn...

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...