Lindsay Mitchell

 The following is the United States' historical experience and mirrors New Zealand's: Giving parents money with no strings attached...

The Prime Minister announced today, "Government action has seen child poverty reduce against all nine official measures compared to th...

The falling Total Fertility Rate (TFR) was the subject of a report I wrote about 18 months ago.  Now it's dropped even further. Statist...

 A graph for commentor  at Kiwiblog (sorry about the quality): Percentage of women giving birth, by deprivation, 2009-2018 Quintile 5 = most...

The Sexual Violence Legislation Bill continues its way through parliament.  Not everyone is onside with the law changes it seeks. Noteworthy...

What a brazen bunch of hypocrites MPs are. Labour - unheralded in its 2020 election manifesto - is pushing through changes to Maori ward leg...

 As an animal lover it distresses me to read reports like the following : Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (CPR) are saddened but ...

The following was brought to my attention and is very hard to argue with: Extracted from the Feb 13 Economist's leading article,  How we...

"Every time I read another excitable media article about New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern, I am reminded of an old quip: ‘Vi...

 Who knows if there is any truth to claims by gossip Keith Lynch that: Sean Plunket's future at radio station Magic Talk is uncertain, ...

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...