Lindsay Mitchell

National has announced a five point welfare plan that applies almost entirely to Jobseeker/Work Ready beneficiaries. The first is random tes...

Welfare is markedly missing from 2026 election campaign issues. There's been far more debate about Super: its cost, means-testing and th...

This reporting is amongst the worst I have seen. And it's funded by the tax-payer. How much beneficiaries are left with after paying the...

Last Thursday Paul Henry was in Dunedin campaigning for ACT. There were planned protests at the speaking venue and one attendee was a left-w...

Yesterday Labour promised to reinstate the Maori Trades and Training Fund (MTTF) at a cost of $21 million annually. The fund was initially s...

Why are incompetents routinely called 'experts' these days? The election campaign brings them out in their droves. Today's Heral...

Over the last twenty years the number of people depending on a benefit due to psychological or psychiatric reasons has increased by 140 perc...

Here is the political argument from the Left: Poverty causes hardship for children. Whether the parent is working or on a benefit makes no d...

For those of us who take an interest in child welfare and listen to various media outlets, Jane Searle is a familiar voice. As head of the o...

Outgoing Children's Commissioner calls for bigger benefits as swansong. Today on Q&A outgoing Children's Commissioner Claire Ac...

National are not promising you anything except other people's money.  The latest example, having historically opposed Paid Parental Leav...

A report from the Chief Executive of the NZ Council of Christian Social Services has made some headlines this morning. It's called Kua M...

According to Treasury, "People present in New Zealand each year are increasingly non-NZ citizens": "In 2024, there were 476,...

  Source: Opportunity Tax Reset policy Let's look at the costings first. Each Citizen's Income would be $19,400 annually. At Decembe...

It's appalling that a quarter of a million children now need an income from the state to feed, clothe and house them. Data released unde...

Here is yet another example of a taxpayer-funded health professional teaching that self-destructive behaviour by Maori is the fault of colon...

I was asked the following question via Family First: "How is the Whānau Ora network developing and what are its prospects. In particula...

It took becoming a mother to awaken an interest in politics in me. Having then become increasingly aware of the detrimental role welfare was...