Lindsay Mitchell

Since Labour took office the number of people on the Jobseeker benefit has risen steadily in spite of the reported low unemployment rate. I...

Source JS-WR = Job Seeker Work Ready

Dialogue in Parliament today with my italicised comments interspersed: Question No. 5—Social Development 5. WILLOW-JEAN PRIME (Labour) to th...

What a lot of dangerous codswallop. Sepuloni says she is putting children first by removing National's 'subsequent child' polic...

Aspiring SOAP candidate campaigning for a brighter future:

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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...