Lindsay Mitchell

The Ministry of Social Development, Carmel Sepuloni's portfolio, has just released its annual report. Here are some of the indicators o...

 As this country inches closer to a 'no vaccination, no job' scenario, the question on my mind - one I'm sure must have crossed ...

Until the welfare reforms of 2013 most sole parents on a benefit relied on the DPB - not exclusively but mainly. Since the introduction of t...

From March through November 2019 I conducted weekly interviews with local composer, musician and teacher, Dorothy Buchanan. It had been a jo...

Long-term benefit dependency is growing, and it was growing before Covid, though the advent of the virus has obvioulsy played a role. The b...

Give Us Hope Jacinda update:

Yesterday I wrote about a recent law change which effectively encourages adding children to an existing benefit. Here's the next move i...

 An evidence brief prepared for Oranga Tamariki and published in April 2021 contains some fascinating data. It looks at people born 1997 to ...

  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...