Lindsay Mitchell

The MSD Annual Report has just been published. No desired outcome achieved. All against a backdrop of lowest unemploymen...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...