Lindsay Mitchell

  From the University of Waikato, this is a multi-layered chart. The black line depicts deaths during the year from just before the first l...

Periodically the UN requires the NZ government to report on the progress - or otherwise - it is making on upholding the many articles that f...

Most open and transparent govt ever. That's what the Prime Minister, who charged herself with bettering outcomes for NZ children, promis...

'You have to be cruel to be kind' is a long-standing axiom. Axioms arise from generational wisdom. Human nature doesn't change. ...

  NZCPR has just published a brief paper I've written which leans heavily on graphic data hence the title:  MĀORI SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC I...

  Can our children and grandchildren repay all the debt being incurred as well as fund Super and aged Healthcare? Perhaps a cynic might repl...

Family First has just published my new report examining New Zealand’s teen birth rate which has plummeted by almost two thirds since 2008.  ...

That was the question headlining a lengthy article by Marty Sharpe in the weekend's DomPost. Here are my questions in response.  What i...

 I was somewhat surprised at the following piece of information from Polly Gillespie in her SST column today about her support for conversi...

 RNZ reports on research from a Christchurch Beneficiary Advice group which looked at the effect of benefit sanctions, the consequence of n...

 According to a report in Stuff the Prime Minister - also Child Poverty Reduction Minister - asked for advice on raising benefits by $50 we...

Stats NZ reports that the June 2021 unemployment rate has fallen to just 4 percent. MSD reports that the June 2021 working-age Jobseeker d...

  Source The blue line depicts the percentage of released prisoners who are re-imprisoned within 5 years. The red line depicts those who hav...

1. We don't need no hate speech laws We don't need no “one source of truth” No criminalising of academic freedoms Labour, leave them...

Yesterday I linked to a column John Tamihere wrote about David Seymour not before reflecting on whether I should give it any further exposur...

Lady Tureiti Moxon, on behalf of the National Māori Urban Authority (NUMA), has lodged a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal. According to the...

No, it's not news but I thought I would update the chart to latest available. June's not up but here's to the end of March . Tre...

Here's a closing gap. Not sure it's quite the type envisaged by left-wing politicians. According to population estimates there were...

 At the end of June 2021 there were more people on benefits than there were a year ago. Yet MSD Minister Sepuloni is calling this good news...

Oversight of Maori children at risk is being transferred to local and community efforts. Regardless of our individual political and philoso...