Lindsay Mitchell

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

"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 ...

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

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...