Lindsay Mitchell

 Under Labour the culture at WINZ was deliberately changed. Far more resources were put into ensuring that clients were receiving their full...

Bernard Hickey has joined the chorus calling for benefit increases. That's because beneficiaries will spend the money. But he fails to ...

 The Growing Up in New Zealand Study continues to frustrate me. Just released is their Now We Are Eight   report. Yet again there is bugger...

Earlier last week Peter Williams, Magic Talk, decided to spend the morning discussing "men beating their wives". This was on the b...

Australian data depicting young Australians’ chances of receiving welfare (aged 18–26) by parental welfare receipt:

 Again the effects of welfarism are manifested in waste and frustration. New Zealand is heading into peak harvest season and there aren...

The repeated and popular news story is how much worse women's employment was hit by the Covid crisis. Stats NZ issued a release saying ...

 The new government is going to come under a great deal of pressure to lift beneficiary incomes from many quarters: CPAG, AAAP, Salvation Ar...

The following graphs compare the September 2020 unemployment data released yesterday by Stats NZ with corresponding  MSD Jobseeker benefit...

 Poto Williams has been appointed Minister for Police.  I recall being rather alarmed about her views just three years ago: Labour MP Poto ...

  Data from Oranga Tamariki show that in the year to June 2020, 151 babies  - aged up to three months old - were removed by the state due to...

 David Seymour decided to draw up his End of Life Choice Bill five years ago . His primary reason was compassion. He believed it was the rig...

 RNZ reports on the Waitangi Tribunal hearing into the disproportionate number of Maori children in state care: Dr Alison Green is completi...

 Alexandra 387 Balclutha  594 Dunedin Central 3,241 Gore  562 Invercargill 3,033 Mosgiel 414 Oamaru 704 Queenstown 588 South...

 On the lighter side of life, prior to the first lockdown I was providing daycare for two extra dogs. The arrangement had run for about a ye...

Apparently some moteliers have sold out to purchasers happy to accommodate the need for emergency housing. They charge way over the normal a...

 The election has come and gone and we have the same Prime Minister. She says she will govern "for all New Zealanders". If that wa...

From my archives, a post written just prior to the 2017 election: Jacinda versus Bill: TV One Debate Jacinda would be great cast as the humb...

 The country is facing  not only a cartload (polite descriptor) of debt to be repaid but burgeoning costs of supporting a rapidly expanding ...

  When people receive a benefit they have certain obligations eg to accept a job when one becomes available. If they fail to meet these obli...