Lindsay Mitchell

 It is Xmas day and if you didn't laugh.....  According to the Adam Smith Institute newsletter, "... Birmingham unveiled new street...

 Yesterday the build up of prisoners on remand made headlines on Stuff : The chief ombudsman has raised the alarm over the growth of people ...

Sex with impunity is a jolly good idea. Apparently vasectomies spike after Xmas when Dads have spent a great deal of time around their chil...

 A couple of days ago I blogged some trends from the Briefing to Incoming Minister for Corrections which included: - a growing proportion o...

 Government will lift the minimum wage to $20 an hour on April 1, 2021: “This minimum wage increase will lift the incomes of around 175,500...

  PREFU = pre-election fiscal update HYEFU = half year economic fiscal update "...the number of people receiving a working-age benefit ...

The hard copy DomPost leads front page with headline: Abuse in state care 'astounding'  "As many as 655,000 children went throu...

I've been browsing through the various Briefings to Incoming Ministers here and here .  All I've looked at contain redacted section...

The media is always looking to beat-up on Oranga Tamariki. That their Chief Executive is moving on to Internal Affairs is reported thus : Gr...

My parent's generation harboured bigots. People who put all Women, all Maori, all Teenagers, all Poms (to name a few of the flawed) into...

Percentage of working age people (18-64) on a benefit just hit 12% or one in eight (377,096). Last time it was that high was 2010/11 during...

Mallard makes $296,007 a year. Almost double what was paid to the individual he slandered. That's what stuns me most about this revela...

The New York Post reports : Japan is struggling with a mental health crisis as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, with more people dying in...

 Stuff's Luke Malpass talks to the PM about her future priorities: Ardern ... nominated housing, child poverty, and climate change as k...

 

I'd have substituted pigs for buzzy bees. Source

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...

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

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

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...