Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com As the election looms, two minor parties, both likely to feature in the next parliament – ACT and the Greens – couldn’t be further apart in their tenets regarding welfare and child well-being. Perhaps the single-most underrated and under-reported issue in New Zealand
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Judith Collins has been in parliament for a long time and I have blogged about her for the duration. Not extensively but when I agreed or disagreed with her comments. She was, after all, National’s spokesperson on Social Development from 2005-08. She once
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Who knows what goes on in the National Party? Like most of the public I can do no more than speculate on the veracity of the reasons Todd Muller has given for resigning this morning. But I can limit my response to that perspective. Todd
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Extension of the government’s “It’s Not OK” anti-violence strategy was released yesterday. The campaign has run since 2007 but it is now turning it focus wholly on “gendered intimate partner violence.” Men as perpetrators. Some extracts: The campaign has re-set its
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Peter Williams on Magic Talk picked up on my report and read it. Invited onto his programme at 9.30 Wednesday morning, I listened from the top of the hour wondering what there would be left for me to say! He quoted from it extensively
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com According to Agnes Loheni, National List MP, after another domestic murder of a female by a male: “If you are a man stand up for the mums, the wives, the daughters, the grand-daughters in your lives and demand accountability of yourselves,” she said. “I
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com “100 reasons to vote Labour” just arrived in my email inbox. Here’s number 30: Here’s number 99: It really should be titled, “100 99 reasons you are going to be paying a shitload of tax in the coming decades.”
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Social Security benefits were legislated in 1938. The Labour government harnessed the collective financial power of all workers to provide for those who fell on hard times through no fault of their own (quite removed from today’s premise where own-fault is ignored). Participation
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Simplicity of idea is always desirable. But the idea still has to make sense. A professor reported on RNZ says: “I think the pandemic spells the end of the neoliberal era and I think the idea that government should be small and inactive and everything
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Released last month from the Family Violence Death Review Committee. Sixth report | Te Purongo tuaono Men who use violence Nga tane ka whakamahi i te whakarekereke The report looks at 97 men, from between 2009 and 2017, whose family violence resulted in death (not theirs)
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Here’s another viewpoint on COVID-19 from a retired English professor. “Robert Watson: A comparison of the relative magnitude of ‘COVID-19’ and ‘All other causes’ of deaths per 1,000 for age and sex cohorts The analysis indicates that: (i) whilst COVID-19
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com The police are running around ordering people off Christchurch beaches. Their message: “If you’re not exercising, clear out.” So you can skip on a beach but not sit on it. It’s a revolting and indefensible state of affairs. But it set me off
Don Brash lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com First published in elocal Perhaps it is dangerous to write about such a fast-moving situation as the COVID-19 pandemic when what I write may not be published for 10 days or more, but at time of writing my strong impression is that the
I recently wrote a piece about the forced feminization of society. Here’s another blow for the boys. The death of Radio Sport, much to the delight of someone called Zoe George who, if the internet links are up-to-date, is paid by the state via RNZ. She must
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com New Zealand has always been ‘the little engine that could.’ It’s endearing imagery but also powerfully symbolic. But thanks to our leadership and their reckless decision-making now compounded by dogmatic digging-in, we are fast becoming the little engine that couldn’t. Today
Apparently our leader is a great communicator. She spells stuff out really clearly. For example ‘Stay home’ and ‘Act like you have COVI- 19’ and ‘Be kind’. All unambiguous instructions. But it isn’t easy to follow instructions if you don’t understand why. Here’s a simple analogy. I’
