Lindsay Mitchell

Ten days ago I wrote a post entitled "The Young Don't Vote" Here are the latest enrollment stats : And here are the actual vot...

My God I get sick of the 'scandals'. I put the word in inverted commas because who knows whether an action merits the word or not? T...

Isn't it intriguing that National AND Labour have suddenly become so solicitous of taxpayer's money: “National’s policy is about fai...

As the election looms, two minor parties, both likely to feature in the next parliament – ACT and the Greens – couldn’t be further apart in ...

Obviously the sharp increase in benefit numbers to 353,440 or 11.8% of the working-age population at the end of June is a result of the econ...

Not an excitable person by nature, I still managed to say out loud, walking on the beach with my dogs today, earphone in and listening to Ma...

Judith Collins has been in parliament for a long time and I have blogged about her for the duration. Not extensively but when I agreed or di...

Who knows what goes on in the National Party? Like most of the public I can do no more than speculate on the veracity of the reasons Todd Mu...

Extension of the government's 'It's Not OK' anti-violence strategy was released yesterday. The campaign has run since 2007...

My personalized latest e-mail from Jacinda says: Over the last 15 months, we have been through a lot together - a terrorist attack, a volc...

There are now over 200,000 people on the Jobseeker/Covid relief payment. In absolute terms, a historical high. In June 2010 there were 62...

How often is this 'lives matter' phrase going to be conveniently co-opted? The latest version is from a group called Wahine Maori,...

From this morning's DomPost, here's the manager of the Auckland's Women's Centre supporting the Greens 'wealth reductio...

Peter Williams on Magic Talk picked up on my report and read it. Invited onto his programme at 9.30  this morning, I listened from the top ...

Many children’s lives today are marked by family turmoil. They live with parents who experience multiple relationship transitions leading to...

A new book which discusses the End of Life Choice bill has been published. From the author: "I did some research and the further I ...

The Green Party has released its welfare policy which substantially raises benefits, WFF, Best Start, and Student Allowances by introducin...

Just a post of general interest. I was unaware of the large discrepancy between male and female students, with the female portion trendi...

When you hear that Jobseeker numbers are decreasing, be aware that many recipients are transferring to the new higher Covid-19 Income Relief...

A lot of statistics appearing in current news items paint an optimistic picture. Whatever the indicator (eg house sales, houses to rent, job...