Lindsay Mitchell

I don't know why MSD continues to surprise me. But they do. TVNZ had a piece about how beneficiaries are being provided with My Food Ba...

Source Update: Sharp-eyed reader points out that the part labelled "profit" isn't all profit either. It's the 'imp...

Some quiet time to enjoy surfing through old newspapers, the following snippets caught my fancy. The first is a letter to the editor regard...

I make no secret of my interest in horse-racing and that I have a very small share in a pacer. Yesterday I noticed this from the Pukekohe me...

Like the two commentors on my last post Leighton Smith is opposed to the reversal of National's blanket vote on prisoners voting. I sent...

National removed all prisoner voting rights on the back of one-term MP Paul Quinn's private member's bill in 2010. Andrew Little ...

Earlier this week the Child Poverty Action Group conference was giving stick to the Minister of MSD for not doing enough to ease poverty. S...

MSD thinks so: The KickStart Breakfast programme will tomorrow celebrate 10-years as the only national breakfast programme of its kind in...

Switch on the computer this morning and  kick off with the really important stuff - an article  and short movie  about my favourite dog - t...

Over recent years the narrative amongst the media has been 'falling home ownership'. Today in Stuff Susan Edmonds writes : "A...

Yesterday Statistics NZ released results from the General Social Survey which asks respondents whether they have enough money to meet every...

Just released  139 percent increase.

The Child Poverty Action Group is holding a summit later this month. This statement is from the release about it: Late into 2019, 174,00...

I heard Kim Workman expressing a view this morning that withholding benefits from gangs would result in more crime. He may well be right...

Couple of quick points. Stuff is reporting that Labour abolished the sanction for not naming the father of a child on a benefit and that ...

National is revisiting the past with its 'Social Services - Discussion Document.' When Jenny Shipley was Prime Minister, "...

If National comes out promising to attack gang welfare dependency you can bet your bottom dollar the Left will counter with, "But what ...

Last week I blogged about RNZ skewing benefit numbers. Now they have just posted a report about National criticising the rise in Jobseeke...

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...