Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Saturday, January 02, 2021

The economics of unskilled work versus benefit

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  Straight from the horse's mouth . Harry Tam long-time Mongrel Mob member on why more young people are joining gangs: “Their parents an...
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Thursday, December 31, 2020

Kiro made Dame Companion - And didn't she deserve it!

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A prophetic post I wrote just under 12 years ago.  (The petition referred to would have been that opposing the criminalisation of smacking)...

Where America goes...

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 The saying used to be "Where Britain goes..." but with identity politics paramount NZ is just as likely to follow American thinki...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Holiday quiz

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Here's a holiday quiz for you. Read the following article to identify what is  1/ Factually wrong with the headline and; 2/ What is the...
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Sunday, December 27, 2020

Another taxpayer-funded talking head

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 If I have a New Year's resolution it is to stop using the word 'we'. I was about to start this post with the sentence, "We...
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Friday, December 25, 2020

Silly street names

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 It is Xmas day and if you didn't laugh.....  According to the Adam Smith Institute newsletter, "... Birmingham unveiled new street...
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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Admission and redaction

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 Yesterday the build up of prisoners on remand made headlines on Stuff : The chief ombudsman has raised the alarm over the growth of people ...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Sex with impunity

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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...
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Saturday, December 19, 2020

At face value, an odd juxtaposition

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 A couple of days ago I blogged some trends from the Briefing to Incoming Minister for Corrections which included: - a growing proportion o...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

Is a return to the bad old days of high inflation on the cards?

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 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...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Revised forecasts

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

Sensationalism?

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The hard copy DomPost leads front page with headline: Abuse in state care 'astounding'  "As many as 655,000 children went throu...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Corrections - violence increasing

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

Iwi working constructively with OT

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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...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

The nasty new collectivism

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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...
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Friday, December 11, 2020

Benefit numbers back to GFC levels

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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 more in a year than was paid to the slandered individual

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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...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2020

Cure worse than the disease

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The New York Post reports : Japan is struggling with a mental health crisis as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, with more people dying in...
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Monday, December 07, 2020

PM complains about sluggish child poverty data

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 Stuff's Luke Malpass talks to the PM about her future priorities: Ardern ... nominated housing, child poverty, and climate change as k...
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Thursday, December 03, 2020

Challenging Stuff's 'Truth Project'

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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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