Lindsay Mitchell

For three decades following the 1938 introduction of most social security benefits (including Invalid, Sickness and Unemployment), ...

Why did National pick two former welfare-dependent sole mothers to be Ministers of Social Development? Because National is woke. They...

The National government is presiding over significant growth in benefit dependency, in both numbers and the length of duration people remain...

RNZ's headline reads : "Jobseeker: Parents earning more than $65k must support 18-19yo children" ...

New Zealand is a hopelessly confused country where people talk past each other, use the same words to mean different things, and can't d...

 Asians will make-up a third of New Zealand's population by 2048. (View interactive image here ) For those worried about one in eight wo...

 The Latu family first appeared at RNZ pleading poverty. Their household consists of mum, dad, eight children and two relatives...

The National coalition government banned the wearing of gang patches in public places in November 2024. The legislation  states: ...

According to the NZ Herald this morning: "Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has described the departure ...

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...