Lindsay Mitchell

 From the 2018/19 Annual Police Report : Addressing cultural unconscious bias  Police understands the potential for unconscious bias whe...

Man am I over all this self-congratulatory stuff about beating Covid. Latest example yesterday from my local council: Kia ora We'd l...

"100 reasons to vote Labour" just arrived in my email inbox. Here's number 30: Here's number 99: It really sh...

The following data is extracted from Ethnic Intermarriage in New Zealand  using 2013 Census, the latest available: With regard t...

Regarding the ongoing battle between some Maori and Oranga Tamariki: Hands Off Our Tamariki spokesperson and researcher Alison Green has...

Spot the problem with the following passage in an RNZ article essentially condemning the removal of Maori babies: Judge Becroft said th...

According to Work and Income: If you or your partner have an uncleared warrant for criminal matters, you'll be told that unless it’s...

A commentor on Kiwiblog drew attention to a Newsroom article by an Auckland University sociology professor: Dr Louise Humpage was hopin...

Treasury is forecasting 487,500 working age people will be on some form of benefit by June 2021 (16.2 percent). At the moment it is neare...

Todd Muller made a speech today. Seymour responds: Minimum Wage Hikes And Handouts -Sounds Like Labour Friday, 29 May 2020, 2:49 pm Pr...

One : Unemployment could rise to 18 per cent, house prices could halve, and the viability of the banks could be "called into question...

If Sue Bradford writes something I generally read it. Because Sue has political conviction. She shunned Kim Dotcom's money and has staye...

Perhaps Freudian, the word ‘relief’ hasn’t been used in relation to state assistance since the Great Depression when it described the govern...

The new Income Relief Payment  for people who have lost their jobs due to the  Covid response is available from June 8 for 12 weeks. That t...

Social Security benefits were legislated in 1938. The Labour government harnessed the collective financial power of all workers to provide f...

In 2015 I came across this photo of an unidentified Maori woman on the internet. Because I used it to produce the painting below...

Another wonderful Wahlberg creation I love this work. The hammer cowers like a supplicant dog being menaced by a more aggressive beast ...

In the first three periods charted just over one in five prisoners was on remand - awaiting trial. The latest March  statistics show the...

Simplicity of idea is always desirable. But the idea still has to make sense. A professor reported on RNZ says : "I think the pande...

Released last month from the Family Violence Death Review Committee. Sixth report | Te Pūrongo tuaono Men who use violence |  Ngā tāne k...