Lindsay Mitchell

Today's protest in Newmarket was described as "anti-vaxx" by Radio New Zealand. On NewstalkZB the same protest was called ...

  Stand-out result , at 30% ACT is the most popular party among 18-49 year-old males.

Oranga Tamariki released two companion research papers on the last day of November. The topic is Making sense of being in care, adopted, or...

Regarding National's leadership crisis, Tracy Watkins extensively quotes a "frustrated former MP" presumably National. “Most ...

I am sick to death of women crying victim because of so-called offensive comments.  I am not sick to death of women who have genuine, almost...

A Stuff reporter writes ,  "Air New Zealand says it is cancelling more than 1000 flights between Aotearoa and Australia from now to the...

There's a feeling afoot, backed with evidence, that the state is increasingly on the side of wrong-doers.  Take the issue of forcing bla...

Wow. Net  Jobseeker numbers dropped by nearly 5,000 in the week to November 12. That's fantastic.  The number of people cancelling thei...

The Prime Minister's cause du jour , reducing child poverty, is a cover for communistic cravings. Left-wing governments always want to t...

The latest MSD  report measuring material hardship shows that among children aged 0-17 those in social housing have much higher hardship ra...

The NZ Initiative this week released a paper arguing against introducing unemployment insurance. One reason advanced is that relative to ot...

The Prime Minister says the thousands that descended on Parliament today are "not representative"  citing vaccination rates to sup...

 This is a great initiative. While double-vaccinated I am deeply uncomfortable with coercion to comply and this presents a "middle grou...

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern entered parliament vowing to reduce child poverty. She even made herself Minister of Child Poverty Reducti...

Graphs are great tools for getting the big picture. Here I have plotted the unemployment rate against 'unemployment' benefits: The h...

The New Zealand Herald ran this chart from a private research company called Sense Partners. The chart depicts Maori numbers in the North I...

 The latest prison stats came out yesterday. The downward trend continues: Looking at a broader view the pink area would now be at the hori...

 Not normally a petition signer I have added my name to this one  calling for: "A petition that keeps growing" is how Kiwiblog des...

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 ...