Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Thursday, October 24, 2019

MSD: no desired outcomes achieved

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The MSD Annual Report has just been published. No desired outcome achieved. All against a backdrop of lowest unemploymen...
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Public too ignorant to own their own lives

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Alex Penk from the Maxim Institute had an opinion piece regarding the proposed End of Life referendum,  MPs are paid, and better equipped, t...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

RNZ badly skews benefit numbers

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According to Radio NZ : There are still 109,000 people in New Zealand on a benefit, out of work. Fifty-two percent of those people have ei...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Duration on dole

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Over at Kiwi Blog a commentor has posted on a discussion about the rising dole numbers: MCos I would suggest the problem is with the lon...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

The moral imperative to work

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I had a discussion with Mike Hosking on NewstalkZB yesterday about why the numbers on Jobseeker continue to escalate. There are at least a c...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Sean Plunket interviews Jim Flynn

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Yesterday Sean Plunket interviewed Jim Flynn on Magic Talk and it was a fascinating 15 minutes.  Flynn left the US to escape the persec...
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Monday, October 14, 2019

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

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The Child Poverty Action Group has a list of goals it believes will improve outcomes for New Zealand children. They are: Substantially im...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Your kids won't need an inheritance

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There's been discussion over the past two days about taxing wealthy pensioners more to claw back their Super. More and more 65+ year-ol...
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Friday, October 04, 2019

Preposterous idea from National

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If this is true... While Bridges wouldn't speak directly to the policies being considered, it's understood they include fines of...
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Sunday, September 29, 2019

WINZ tougher on beneficiaries in regions with high Maori populations

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A post at the Daily blog complaining that Carmel Sepuloni had only reduced sanctions by 20% led me to check because I thought it was higher...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Peak neuroticism

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Are we there yet? I bloody hope so because I am sick and tired of it. Is this what 'real' people do all day? Worry and blame. I ...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Census 'highlights'

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Thought I'd have a browse through the census tables released yesterday. My 'highlights': 273 census respondents said they wo...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Labour's soft-on-welfare policies hurting South Auckland

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According to RNZ gang problems are exacerbating in South Auckland leading to their question,  What's behind south Auckland's recent ...
Friday, September 13, 2019

'Survivors'

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My most hated word is 'survivors'. A survivor used to be someone who lived through the Titanic sinking or Auschwitz. Now it'...
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Thursday, September 12, 2019

Australia to move on substance abuse and benefit dependence

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Only one more voted is needed to pass the legislation that will see random drug-testing of people receiving unemployment benefits roll-out i...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

NZ mothers and relationship transitions

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A new MSD/Victoria University study , The influences of social connectedness on behaviour in young children:  A longitudinal investigation u...
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Monday, September 09, 2019

New Zealand's Falling Fertility Rate

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Late last month Family First published my paper Families: Ever fewer, or no children - How worried should we be? It   contains data that NZ...
Monday, September 02, 2019

Shocking revelations about Dunedin Women's Refuge

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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 ...
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Sunday, September 01, 2019

David Seymour: The speech Jacinda Ardern should have given on Ihumātao

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

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