Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Thursday, December 03, 2020

Challenging Stuff's 'Truth Project'

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Wednesday, December 02, 2020

Children's Commissioner draws a picture of what he wants

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I'd have substituted pigs for buzzy bees. Source
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Tuesday, December 01, 2020

Stuff's tortured apology

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Yesterday Stuff declared to the world that it had been racist in the past but now, in their "brave new era" they will tell the tru...
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Monday, November 30, 2020

The inverted world of blameless individuals

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The Child Poverty Action Group has issued a stocktake on government's unsatisfactory implementation of the WEAG's recommendations. ...
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Sunday, November 29, 2020

OT fights it corner

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Oranga Tamariki has taken the unusual step of letting a journalist work alongside a social worker for the duration of an uplift case. It...
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Friday, November 27, 2020

Highly unusual graph

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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...
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A debate coming our way

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Whether or not to criminalise 'coercive control' - a precursor to family violence. According to the Melbourne Age : Coercive control...
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Thursday, November 26, 2020

When group dissension becomes THE issue

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

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

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 Karl du Fresne has written the second of what I hope is a series of posts , "In New Zealand today" which highlights various medi...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Pronoun ommission an offence?

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The Public Service Commissioner is recommending employees include a pronoun in email signatures. This to signal their commitment to diversit...
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More upheaval coming at Oranga Tamariki?

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 Back in July I questioned how long the stand off between the head of Oranga Tamariki and Maori advocates calling for her resignation would...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

More tax...more love...more kindness

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Monday, November 23, 2020

Labour govt gradually increasing % of your income they spend

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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, ...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

NZ's child protection agency is informed by...

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 ... a recent Oranga Tamariki  paper  titled: UNDERSTANDING MÄ€ORI PERSPECTIVES:Tamariki and rangatahi who are victims of sexual violence or ...
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Thursday, November 19, 2020

Aotearoa or New Zealand?

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 Did anyone notice the irony of new Tourism Minister Stuart Nash speaking at Summit Aotearoa  saying " ‘Brand New Zealand’ is paramoun...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

On whether our falling fertility rate matters

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

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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...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Lowest birth rate ever

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 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...
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Monday, November 16, 2020

Colin James on Seymour

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Colin James makes this prediction (echoing earlier statements elsewhere not least by National's leader): David Seymour will have troubl...
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Lindsay Mitchell
Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits at Wellington, New Zealand, galleries.
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