Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Ethnicity matching

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"The state thinks it's ok to place children outside their genealogical links." This from Dame Tariana Turia speaking at the...
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Sunday, July 28, 2019

Active engagement with beneficiaries declines - numbers increase

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Another of the 'key facts' advanced by the WEAG was: In June 2014, employment-focused case managers engaged proactively with 50% ...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

"Key fact" is not

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We live in a time when so many 'facts' turn out to be lies. They are not facts and the untruthfulness degrades the level of understa...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019

'Harm in state care' does not mean harm inflicted by the state

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Not my first post on this subject but there now seems to be an official response from Oranga Tamariki clarifying the true situation. Whil...
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Monday, July 22, 2019

Does Duff exaggerate?

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Maori organisations have just announced a rally to Parliament a week tomorrow, July 30,  to protest the state removing Maori children from...
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Friday, July 19, 2019

"Most of us don't come close to paying our way in the tax system"

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In a flippant attack on Superannuation the writer states: "Most of us don't come close to paying our way in the tax system....
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Justifying beneficiary increase

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According to TV Three News : "...the number of people on benefits has increased by 15,000 since the Government took office - but it...

Another big jump in benefit numbers

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"The number of working-age people receiving main benefits as at the end of June 2019 was 5.2 percent higher than at the end of ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Why children are uplifted

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(Left click to enlarge) Above is a graphic from a short article by Ian Lambie, Chief Science Advisor for the Justice Sector, which app...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Steep decline in fraud prosecutions

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

Well done MSD

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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...
Saturday, July 06, 2019

RNZ witch hunt finds ... reasonable numbers

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RNZ is constantly on Oranga Tamariki's back trying to show them as a failing agency. Oranga Tamariki published data not long ago detai...
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Thursday, June 27, 2019

OIA response publishing - MSD lagging behind

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Government departments have to make OIA responses public. MSD has fallen off  not posting anything since September 2018 Treasury is keep...
Monday, June 24, 2019

There will be war

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Between them, the risk averse and the environmentalists are quite determined to severely reduce the quality of our lives to preserve the qua...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Leaving a benefit lifts income but not life satisfaction

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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 at WINZ?

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What the heck is going on with WINZ? According to advice given to the Welfare Expert Advisory Group in February 2019: Source Obvious...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Hood Aerodrome not

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Have been following the horrible news today of  two light aircraft colliding just south of Hood Aerodrome in Masterton. I was flying there a...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Outrageous lie from Tariana Turia

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Dame Tariana Turia was interviewed by Ryan Bridge on Magic TalK yesterday evening regarding the removal of Maori children by Oranga Tamariki...
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Monday, June 10, 2019

How do lies like this happen?

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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 ...
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"Strong economies create wellbeing, not government"

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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...
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Lindsay Mitchell
Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits at Wellington, New Zealand, galleries.
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