Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Friday, February 11, 2022

Temporary Tent City?

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Quite early this morning I went down to parliament to look for myself and get a feel for the mood. Yesterday the police spent hours pushing ...
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Wednesday, February 09, 2022

Our welfare system is not functioning well

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In the clamour against Labour's proposed unemployment insurance scheme something odd has happened. The detractors are praising the exist...
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Sunday, February 06, 2022

Oranga Tamariki statistics under new regime

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CYF became Oranga Tamariki in 2017. There has since been a push to reduce Maori children in state care (not dissimilar to the push to reduce...
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Wednesday, February 02, 2022

Underneath the official unemployment rate announced today

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Unemployment is now at 3.2 percent. Wow. Wonderful. Can I think of another word beginning with 'W'? Weird. The percentage of people...
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The age of anxiety

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 Not a worrier by nature I note with a degree of objectivity that the human brain is now constantly assaulted by messages designed to make p...
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Sunday, January 30, 2022

When words say so much

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 According to RNZ the PM is a covid close contact and has to isolate. The following sentence made me laugh: In line with Ministry of Healt...
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Friday, January 28, 2022

A sample of the protestors

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312 responded. Margin of error plus or minus 4.6% Most aged over 41 Labour was the most common vote at last election Maori representation al...
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Monday, January 24, 2022

Bizarre new world

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The term 'pod' applied to human beings first made itself known to me when I was 'inducted' (as a volunteer) into Rimutaka pr...
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Thursday, January 20, 2022

How does this claim stack up?

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 Some more background on this claim from the MSD Minister today would be useful: "People on a benefit for 1-2 years and four years or ...
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Friday, January 14, 2022

Eradicating 'NZ' from the public service lexicon?

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This is bad news in my book. MSD has always used 'prioritised ethnicity' recording. If a client records they are Maori and other et...
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Thursday, January 13, 2022

Gangs: We get what we pay for

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In 2016 the government provided you, the public, with a valuable insight into what gangs are costing us. When I went searching for an update...
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Lindsay Mitchell
Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits at Wellington, New Zealand, galleries.
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