Lindsay Mitchell

In response to this article which was headlined Can Pakeha raise Maori Children? in the hard copy.  

  The orange line shows that the numbers of people who can't work due to a temporary health condition or disability rose quite quickly a...

  The Taxpayer's Union Curia Poll released yesterday includes a gender breakdown. While we know more females than males vote Left, I di...

From a survey by MSD into how the 2020 Covid lock downs affect various aspects of people's lives, two graphs.  The propensity control g...

A Family Court judge ruling on the high profile case involving a Maori child removed from a Pakeha couple who'd been her stable caregive...

This is Dr Rodney Jones backing New Zealand's Covid elimination strategy: "When we did elimination we were the first country to pu...

John Tamihere on low Maori vaccination rates: "When 30 per cent of our people are on the dole, earning under $28,000 a year, and anoth...

They're dropping like flies at Magic Talk. Leah Panapa opened what had been Peter William's show this morning with the news that he...

  Data for the COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme (August 2021) since applications opened on 20 August 2021: 135,570 jobs - most probably still i...

  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...