Lindsay Mitchell

The non-challenged New Zealand narrative is that housing costs are a major driver of child poverty.  Rents are unaffordable, houses are damp...

The Child Poverty Related Indicators report on housing, food security, school attendance and potentionally avoidable hospital admissions . T...

  This is a graph with which I am familiar. If anything there is an upward trend in 'all cause' child hospitalisations. So I was som...

  More Maori men and more Maori women are married to or cohabiting with Europeans than other Maori. Updated data : Comparing the 2001 and 20...

Remember all the belly-aching by feminist pollies and journos about how hard done by women have been due to Covid? Here's a sample fr...

Henry Cooke from Stuff says : ACT voters are definitely more likely to be susceptible to racialised politics than the average voter. It cont...

Two Green MPs went to a hui with Mongrel Mob. I don't particularly have a problem with MPs talking to gangs. Problems never get solved w...

 Or, in other words ,  Deputy PM Grant Robertson setting up new 'implementation unit' to make sure Government policies actually happ...

"Around 400,000 formerly blue voters abandoned National at the last election. If recent opinion polling can be trusted, they have not c...

Oh really? This from the Minister for Children, Kelvin Davis, regarding Oranga Tamariki's uplift of Maori children and their over-repres...

Peter Williams described the Minister of Social Development, Carmel Sepuloni as "useless" on his Magic Talk programme this morning...

Confusion reigns in some lives. A man is murdered. Coleman was his partner: Three days on from the killing, Coleman told Stuff she wanted t...

Not a burning issue for many people I realise (though a matter of their livelihood for hundreds) but I thought the following two columns wer...

I posted yesterday about the child poverty stats and why they are a joke. While recalibration shows better reduction, nothing materially ch...

MSD set up a division of case managers to work with people who enter the benefit system very young and/or are "entrenched" benefic...

Child poverty stats are a joke. If grown-ups get collectively poorer, children get richer (relatively). Never has this been better illustrat...

 Here's National on the March quarter benefit stats: Labour Mislead on Negative Statistics Again Labour’s celebratory social media posts...

MSD has just released a report into how Labour's Families Package has affected incomes of parents with infants in the first six months ...

 Regular readers will know I love data. It's like a toy you can play with in different ways. The visual representation relays speedily w...

Three graphs for you from March quarter benefit fact sheets released today. Unsurprisingly, large increase in Jobseeker numbers year-on-yea...