Stanford Admits Kiwis Don’t Want To Work
Decade after decade governments have failed to successfully tackle the problem. They tinker at best. The issue is poor policy.
Lindsay Mitchell
This MSD Treatment Is Revealing
On the face of it, MSD has no empathy for Covid fraudsters but no end of empathy for beneficiary fraudsters. So much for a neutral public service.
Luxon Isn’t Talking to Me
And it’s not just him. Hipkins is the same. They talk to this particular group. Is it their group? Their friends and colleagues? Or is that the group that contains the swinging voters?
NZ Immigrants Pull Their Weight
When it comes to those who could be working, Māori are massively over-represented. Whilst colonisation continues to be blamed for Māori ‘disadvantage’, every year thousands of immigrants come to New Zealand and make a contribution.
This Is ‘Brown Optimism’
I don’t think I am ever going to behold this ‘monument’ with any sense of sympathy or warmth.
Talk About Underperforming and Underwhelming
Childish and churlish: that’s the calibre of the man who wants to resume the prime ministership come November.
Latest Benefit Numbers – Beware the Spin
What really matters is the year-on-year comparison.
RNZ Catches up on News Reported Here Over a Month Ago
Let’s hope if the coalition survives the 2026 election, ACT gets to exercise far more influence in this area. Two forgotten words desperately in need of rehabilitation – Personal Responsibility.
Get Rid of the Sole Parent Benefit
Get rid of the sole parent benefit. Lift aspirations for those mothers and better outcomes for their children will follow.
Sallies Are Now Part of the Problem
While it’s true that they provide much-needed emergency services, they also fight against reforms that try to place at least some responsibility back on the shoulders of people receiving benefits.
A Way Forward
Don is reluctant to “kill what we have built up over the last few years” and has suggested that we continue the blog under the title of Brash & Mitchell.
This Is a Litany of Excuses
In the face of this report, the best response the government could make is to defund the Salvation Army for being part of the problem.
Who Is To Blame for the State of Some School Entrants?
No, the benefit itself isn’t causal. It’s the lifestyle the benefit enables that does the damage. When will a future government recognise and act on this reality?
This Is Just Replacing Action With a Hollow Gesture
We mere mortals can picture the adult histories and households that bring newborns into precarious environments BUT officials have the confirming data. Is it acted on? No.
This Is a Bad Idea
If being born onto welfare and staying there long-term is a risky business for children, why would any government want to encourage this?
Some People May Have Children to Gain Income Support
The reality is this: it is cruel and callous to incentivise the birth of otherwise unwanted children. And it is a cruel and callous person who produces a child purely for their own monetary gain.