Lindsay Mitchell

In an ageing and growing population, the failure of primary health care in New Zealand is a dire problem. Many general practices...

Right now, benefit statistics are worse than at the time of last year's election. There are 380,169 main beneficiaries - a rise of 5 per...

Another baby known to Oranga Tamariki has died. It is bad enough that a life is lost when it has barely begun. But it is worse when there we...

A lack of perspective can make something quite large or important seem small or irrelevant. Against a backdrop of high-profile, negative sta...

The Children's Minister, Karen Chhour, intends to repeal Section 7AA from the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 because it creates conflict betwe...

O ne of reasons Oranga Tamariki exists is to prevent child neglect. But could the organisation itself be guilty of the same? Oranga Tamariki...

 Ten years ago, I wrote the following in a Listener column: Every year around one in five new-born babies will be reliant on their caregive...

A recent report generated from a Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) survey of 1,224 rangatahi Māori aged 11-12 found: Cultural connectedn...

The National Government has announced just two targets for the Ministry of Social Development. They are: - to reduce the number of people r...

While this morning’s news heralded 134 job losses at the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Social Development has just announced their ow...

When news media took a pummeling last week at both TVNZ and TV3, a number of critics said part of the reason ratings are poor is the public ...

Sometimes the gems are buried. My ears pricked up when the following statement was reported on a news programme playing in the background: ...

Question: Do you understand how the child poverty statistics are derived? Clearly some people do not. Last week the latest child poverty...

In today's State of the Nation speech Christopher Luxon talked repeatedly about getting young people off welfare. It seems that National...

When National became government in 2008, Finance Minister Bill English's determination to understand the extent of benefit-dependency le...

When did you last read a headline in MSM about more children being raised on welfare? Yet latest Ministry of Social Development ...