Lindsay Mitchell

The Commissioner for Children's term must be up. Invitations for applications have appeared. The requirements are indicative of how the...

National MP Paul Goldsmith says that on balance colonisation has been good for Maori.  But his colleagues and leader equivocate. Chris Luxo...

Ruth Dyson recieves a gong for her services to disabled people. Good Lord. The minister who forced the minimum wage on sheltered workshops ...

 Another graph from Perry's latest report : This is a depiction of core benefits compared to before tax minimum wage and after tax avera...

Bryan Perry writes reports about incomes for MSD and has done so for years. I admire and respect his work. Child Poverty in New Zealand , re...

The following exchange took place between Mike Hosking and Stuart Nash on NewstalkZB (8:15) this morning: MH:  TV One last night, so you pa...

David Farrar has gone back through poll archives to see if any other ACT leader ever surpassed David Seymour's current rating at 6% as p...

 A poster at the BFD put up this comment and 1930s pictorial: "I wonder if in election 2023 we will see back to the future advertising...

I went to see the movie version of Patricia Grace's story 'Cousins' today. Witi Ihimaera's 'Mahana' was a hit with m...

Children are stolen; children are abused in state care; Oranga Tamariki is a racist institution, and so on. They aren't my claims but th...

  Here's Stuart Nash, MP for Napier: Nash acknowledged that Hawke's Bay had a gang problem, but said arresting people was not the so...

Cindy Kiro's appointment to the role of Governor General is political. Judging by comments on Kiwiblog people have forgotten her time a...

When Paula Bennett was Minister for Social Development she wanted to stop people adding children to an existing benefit to avoid work. So th...

The only op-ed writer left worth reading at Stuff, Martin van Beynen signed off today: As an opinion writer, it's easier to identify wha...

I think Chris Trotter was in his cups writing about the Budget yesterday, including this line: "To hear Robertson invoke the memory of...

Recently we learned that MSD was moving its fraud investigators away from beneficiaries and onto businesses. "...between 40 and 50 MSD...

 "... there is an unavoidable trade-off between providing generous assistance to the poor and improving incentives for people to work a...

 According to Bryce Edwards on RNZ :  "...pressure to deliver to those most in need is now just too great for the government to ignore,...

You want to know what the average household income by ethnicity is. Seems straight forward. You take a survey of about 20,000 households, a...

 Men are not pulling their weight around the house. Apparently if they did the economy would be $1.5 billion better off.  Deloitte's who...