Lindsay Mitchell

 Highly recommended: With the sudden emergence into our political life of the revolutionary report He Puapua, it is clear New Zealanders are...

 New research from the Growing Up in New Zealand study finds Maori and Pacific children are disproportionately missing out on healthcare de...

The Sexual Violence Bill trundles ever closer to becoming law. The sentiments behind it appear noble: to ease the trauma of the trial proce...

Perusing recent OIA responses, a handful caught my interest:   405 people registered for public housing were living in their car at December...

The persistent Samira Taghavi writes yet another column in opposition to the unjust Sexual Violence Bill proceeding through parliament. ...

This is a bit of a worry. The Jobseeker benefit cancellations have dropped below last year's weekly equivalent. This despite all of the...

April 23, 2021, Housing Minister Dr Megan Woods says : Government delivers on housing Released today , the public housing wait list numbers:...

  Graphed data from a published  OIA response . The sharp reduction is apparently due to "an increased focus on prevention and early de...

There are now so many Work and Income rules that have either been repealed, ignored or broken since 2017 that it's worth making a list: ...

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...