Lindsay Mitchell

There were 17,028 Maori babies born in 2024. According to an official information response from the Ministry of Social Development,  5,997 w...

A brief post to set the record straight. Today RNZ is running an article entitled, Do you know what people on benefits actually get? If you ...

On the back of a reported 96 percent increase in methamphetamine use, NewstalkZB host Mike Hosking asked Labour MP Ginny Andersen, "Who...

Of late there have been countless headlines stating Prime Minister Christopher Luxon 'must go' followed by reasons why. These includ...

This week, headline after headline bitched about the new 'free' school lunch programme. Principals apparently compared the meals to ...

Benefit numbers always rise in December driven mainly by the influx of students into the system. Taking the seasonal rise into account, and ...

Yesterday the NZ Herald produced a headline that read, “Nine in 10 Kiwi kids endure trauma by age 8 - new research.” This was subsequent to...

  When Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister, she was determined to increase income for children in welfare-dependent families - her magic bu...

Dame Tariana Turia has been well-remembered by many over the past few days. She was warm, had a great sense of humour, and was, above all, h...

We live in a society utterly confused about parenthood and the role of fathers. The last Labour government made fathers increasin...

New Zealand women got the vote in 1893; they got the right to stand for parliament a generation later in 1919. But there has nev...

Released today, the government's new Child and Youth Strategy might, at first glance, look like a rehash of Jacinda Ardern's ...

In September 2024 the government issued a directive to government agencies not to prioritise services on the basis of race. Shortly ...

There are individuals born in NZ who will, over their lifetimes, cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of dollars in welfare, child protec...

My blog posts often result from a question popping into my head. In this case, given all the gloom and doom around public servant lay-offs i...

 The Child Poverty Report 2024 has just been published. It's an overview and selected findings, as opposed to a full repo...