Lindsay Mitchell

 John Banks filled in for Peter Williams on Magic Talk this week. He spent this morning polling the audience on their Party vote intentions ...

Another graphic illustration of Labour's achievements, the Housing Register, previously known as the state house waiting list: Source

National's 'subsequent child' policy said a woman who has another baby on welfare would still have work obligations when that ch...

According to Statistics NZ the June quarter unemployment rate dropped to 4% These figures are derived from a 15,000 household survey and ext...

I've been around ACT for a long time. If anything convinces me the momentum building in the polls is real, the turn-out at the Wellingto...

Apparently, a Stuff-Massey University survey of voters showed : ACT voters, for instance, while saying that they felt safe in their own nei...

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:

A party whose time has come: More

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...