Lindsay Mitchell

The worst form of racism perpetrated against Maori is that "they all think the same way." They don't. Never have and never wil...

 Is it interesting that of those people convicted of breaching covid 19 restrictions  - most were men - around half were under 30 - around h...

Great column from Damien Grant this morning. It nails the frustration that those of us older than most current  MPs feel. "One of the e...

 According to today's Economist A commission in Britain that was created after last year’s Black Lives Matter protests to investigate ...

Indexing benefits to wages last year set a precedent. They've been indexed to inflation since 2001 but indexing to wages had always been...

 Having a bit of a tidy up when I came across these photos which show the development of one of my favourite subjects and paintings, Herbie:

The PM's office was trying to get data to show that rents have risen in line with wage increases apparently. PM's chief press secre...

A media report yesterday talked about landlords "threatening" to hike rents in response to to Labour's closing the "looph...

Over the ten year period to 2018, births of NZ European babies were reasonably evenly spread across the economic deciles with the fewest bei...

 Statistics New Zealand compiled a report called Housing in Aotearoa 2020 which is full of interesting data. This graph painted a slightly d...

She wrote me, "...we’ve come so far, and I know that we can make it through together." She did. The PM. Tonight. Just now. Person...

  (Left click on image to enlarge) Note a marked reversal in a number of positive trends since 2017. Source

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A reader kindly sent me a response she received yesterday from MSD. She'd asked if any cost benefit analysis has been made of Temporary ...

 National is at last complaining about an issue I (and probably others) was blogging about over a year ago. National’s Housing spokesperso...

Right now most academics, politicians, public servants, pundits and media maintain that the colonisation of New Zealand was a coercive and n...

Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni has been crowing about people coming off benefits recently. I said to nobody in particular, ...

I don't know much about this guy Piers Morgan. His face is recognisable from a British talent show I watched for maybe a season? I live ...

 From Scoop: Women’s Wellbeing Survey Launched Monday, 8 March 2021, 10:40 am Press Release: New Zealand National Party In recognition of In...

Continuing with Stuff's 'Our Truth' crusade Michelle Duff has a piece  profiling five good Maori Dads to show that they do exist...