Lindsay Mitchell

This table is taken from the statistical snapshot that informs the Children's Commissioner widely reported comments about inequity betw...

According to RNZ : "Māori babies were five times more likely to end up in state care than non-Māori last year and their rate of urge...

Looking at poll results commissioned by Family First regarding the anti-smacking law a couple of things stood out. 22% of parents with yo...

Working through more of MSD's published OIA responses , one topic caught my eye. This'll be interesting I thought. It was. It's ...

At long last MSD has updated OIA requests. Responses up to November 2019 are on-line and always make for interesting reading. For instance p...

New Year seems to be a time when predictions are checked. In September 2017 I predicted Jacinda Ardern would increase child poverty if she ...

2020 just hours old and that hoary old chestnut is already rolled out. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer! From S...

The idea that 'We live in apocalyptic times' might be misguided. Questioning the idea might equally be challenged. To satisfy my...

Not on-line but here is a quote from a Stuff journalist expressing opinion in today's Dominion Post: My BS detector always goes of...

Opinion  by Mark Blackham published in today's Dominion Post: The response to the White Island tragedy is a stark insight into the c...

Here's a supposed intelligent man being intentionally provocative on the subject of providing a "pension" for children: ...

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...