Lindsay Mitchell

  Replying to a column by David Seymour when she was still in opposition Jacinda Ardern  wrote : ...our welfare state is having to pick up e...

Graham Adams details a number of media failures to provide the full story culminating with:  Perhaps the most egregious omissions, however,...

The Oranga Tamariki Ministerial Advisory Board  report released today paints a picture of pre-colonisation nirvana. There s a heavy emphasi...

An Oranga Tamariki social worker makes a cameo appearance at their site. This seems primarily to encourage more people to become social wor...

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.  ...