Lindsay Mitchell

Unemployment drops by a third - benefit numbers rise by a quarter. That's what's happened during (almost) five years under a Labour ...

MSD have released a report on benefit incomes. I have long held that beneficiary advocates base their poverty pleading on the basic benefit...

  Heard any alarm bells ringing yet?

 Carmel Sepuloni announces:  Benefit numbers continue to fall “The statistics show our investment into front line case management has worked...

The following pieces of information come from a published OIA response (the images are skewwhiff because that's how they appear at MSD...

SEEK EMPLOYMENT REPORTS SEEK Employment Report - Job ads soar to new highs in April MSD REPORTS Jobseeker Work Ready recipients increase by ...

In April this year the Prime Minister laid out the progress she has made towards child poverty reduction since taking office. She said her ...

 According to the Ministry of Social Development, “The harm inflicted by gangs is a serious issue in New Zealand. We have a complex gang pr...

In the NZ Herald this morning ex Labour leader sort of congratulates Grant Robertson on his budget spending. Or rather, damns with faint pr...

Unbelievable bullshit. The great spin machine has it that for too long mothers on the DPB - called Sole Parent Support since 2013 - have bee...

  Between March 2017 and March 2022 the female prison population decreased by 39.3 percent whereas the male prison population shrank by jus...

 RNZ reports : Shane Reti: Life expectancy for Māori was 30 years in the 1840s but today it is around 73.4 years. Willie Jackson: Shane is t...

An RNZ headline  reads: High rate of suicide in pregnant and post-natal women "Suicide is the leading cause of death during pregnancy a...

The data for the following chart comes from StatsNZ.  Looks like New Zealand is becoming a safer place. Fewer crimes are being committed - o...

The rates of partnering between Māori and non-Māori are high and always have been.  Historically :  “Intermarriage with non-Maori contribute...

I strongly object to writers who refer to groups of people and profess to speak for them. It happens all the time with Maori, and now Paula ...

 The Prime Minister is off overseas tomorrow. RNZ reports : Ardern will be making local media appearances and leveraging off New Zealand...

This morning SEEK, the foremost advertiser of jobs in New Zealand, advised that March listings were up 27% on March last year and 2 percent...

In December 2017  123,039 people were on the Jobseeker benefit and 289,788 people were on any main benefit. By December 2021 the respective ...

Many still credit the Labour government with its life-saving approach to Covid in 2020. But from the outset it was only ever another form of...