Lindsay Mitchell

Do you ever wonder what the Office of the Children's Commissioner - with an annual budget of $11.5 million and 36 full time staff (83 ...

Last week the UK government gave in to the growing pressure from activists to scrap their two child cap on welfare benefits - this despite...

This morning NewstalkZB reported officials warning, in a Regulatory Impact Statement about the government's policy to block teenagers ac...

The latest monthly benefit data was released yesterday. Here are three observations. There are more Cook Islanders on benefits in New Zeala...

The Social Investment Agency is a creation of the National government. It kicked off in July 2024 and is headed by the former police commiss...

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...