Lindsay Mitchell

People growing produce which earns income for the country are no longer good. They pollute, they treat their animal stock badly, they export...

Kiwiblog ran a post titled, "Great employment news." Here are a couple of comments and my response: Having said that, the process ...

Regarding the new history curriculum, according to RNZ, "On Wednesday, Education Minister Chris Hipkins urged New Zealanders to check o...

New Zealand seems poised to implement separate child protection services based on ethnicity. Minister for Children, Kelvin Davis says he is ...

  This graph released on Friday is accompanied by an interesting prediction. "We expect the numbers in this category [Gender diverse] ...

I parted ways with my social work Master’s with the last re-write of CYF/OT legislation. Whanau placement children have demonstrably worse o...

This is disappointing. For many years I've created and exhibited portraits of 'tupuna'. I've also painted many Maori and the...

I listen to John Banks but wasn't tuned in yesterday when he made comments in response to a caller which were being recorded by an outra...

 According to analysis of actual cases Oranga Tamariki reports: Typically, there were multiple factors associated with a decision toseek i...

This is a bit over the top don't you think? Ex Labour Minister Steve Maharey writes today: "Ardern has gone on to become a world f...

 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 ...

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

 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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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