Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Friday, January 22, 2021

ACT response to Grainne Moss resignation

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 ACT's response to the resignation of Oranga Tamariki CE Graine Moss is spot on. Karen Chhour is part-Maori and grew up in fostercare ...
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Statistic of the Day

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 Statistics New Zealand released latest migration data yesterday. This fact is incredibly sobering: From April 2020 to November 2020 there ...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Appreciating our essential services

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 A courier driver gets caught short and pees out of sight of the road on a plant. The property owner is disgusted and in her fury releases ...
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John Bishop: "Smiles all very well but we need a bold vision"

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That's the title used in a column by John Bishop (father of National MP Chris Bishop) published in today's DomPost. I used to think...
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Friday, January 15, 2021

First Jobseeker data of the year

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MSD's first jobseeker data for the year shows that on New Years Day there were 212,441 people receiving a Jobseeker benefit. Just a wee...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

"Clear consequences" aka sanctions

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Below is an extract from a Government policy statement: Given today's Labour varietal you may be surprised to know that statement came f...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Pharmac under the gun

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Stuff 's editorial stance now is to inspect every institution from a grievance angle. In the process their journalists are actually prac...
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Sunday, January 03, 2021

Only one in five victims attends a FGC

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From Oranga Tamariki :  Youth justice family group conferences (FGCs) give the child or young person – with their whānau, victims and profes...
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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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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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