Lindsay Mitchell

The unemployment rate rose in the June quarter to 5.2 percent. For those who are interested, here's some finer detail behind the ...

Fascinating news out of the US this week. The prevailing ideology - mirrored in NZ - is that poverty in and of itself harms children's d...

National governments are better economic managers BUT avoid the entrenched age-old problems that hold NZ back. Welfare for sole mothers is o...

The Prime Minister is back from his holiday and insists the economy has turned a corner. But it's not showing in the unemployment data. ...

With new data available from the 2023 census, it is possible to answer questions that contemporary policy makers seem disinterested in. Earl...

This short piece is a partial answer to the question posed. It addresses the ‘who’ but not the ‘why’. The following chart uses Census data f...

The following quote typifies the thinking that's rampant across New Zealand's health and education sectors:     "The presentati...

On June 18, 2025, Health New Zealand published extensive data (March 2025 quarter) in a two-page spread contained in The Post . I assume th...

One thing children who get murdered never seem short of is names. The latest example is Catalya Remana Tangimetua Pepene, the four-year-old ...

As part of today's budget the Minister for Social Development announced : "Parents rather than the state will be ...

I won't even use the C word in Scrabble. It just represents a vulgar low standard never to be stooped to. But I have heard my grown-up k...

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...