Lindsay Mitchell

The graph below shows child entry into state care by ethnicity from March to June 2020. Can you spot what is unusual about it? Certainly I h...

Whether or not to criminalise 'coercive control' - a precursor to family violence. According to the Melbourne Age : Coercive control...

Because of collectivism and identity politics, and RNZ's obsession with such, when one Maori disagrees with another THAT becomes the st...

Maori and non-Maori partner at very high rates. StatsNZ : "In the 1996 census, 66 percent of partnerships involving people of Maori eth...

 Karl du Fresne has written the second of what I hope is a series of posts , "In New Zealand today" which highlights various medi...

The Public Service Commissioner is recommending employees include a pronoun in email signatures. This to signal their commitment to diversit...

 Back in July I questioned how long the stand off between the head of Oranga Tamariki and Maori advocates calling for her resignation would...

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StatsNZ released household accounts data on Friday. Important to note they apply to before the lockdown. Of interest, spending on health, ...

 ... a recent Oranga Tamariki  paper  titled: UNDERSTANDING MĀORI PERSPECTIVES:Tamariki and rangatahi who are victims of sexual violence or ...

 Did anyone notice the irony of new Tourism Minister Stuart Nash speaking at Summit Aotearoa  saying " ‘Brand New Zealand’ is paramoun...

Talking to Heather du Plessis Allan on NewstalkZB this afternoon (the article was generated before the interview). Update - Kerre McIvor p...

Using the Maternity Report web tool I have extracted birth profiles for the most southern region of New Zealand, the Southern DHB and the m...

 StatsNZ today on September 2020 data: The total fertility rate was 1.63, the lowest on record in New Zealand.  This trend began in 2008. T...

Colin James makes this prediction (echoing earlier statements elsewhere not least by National's leader): David Seymour will have troubl...

 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: