Lindsay Mitchell

The title of this post may look like a mere attention-grabber but I was genuinely shocked as I read through this RNZ report about Te Whare ...

"E ngā mana, en ngā reo, e ngā karangatanga maha. Tēnā kotou. Greetings. It’s my special privilege to address this nation today about...

Saturday, 31 August, 2019 - 19:58 ' Families: Ever Fewer, or No Children: How Worried Should We Be? ' - a new report just released ...

MEDIA RELEASE FAMILY FIRST NEW ZEALAND 30 August 2019 Pros and Cons Of “All-Time Low” Fertility Rate - Report New Zealand's t...

Here is the latest $74,000 rate-payer funded 'artwork' to grace the rooftops of Wellington. People don't like it. I do. And af...

The Minister for Children, Tracey Martin, yesterday attended a hui to talk about the changes at and failings of Oranga Tamariki. Also att...

According to Statistics NZ : The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 3.9 percent in the June 2019 quarter, down from 4.2 percen...

"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...