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National Return To Work-Testing - A Dud

National MP Judith Collins has signalled a return to DPB work-testing under a National government...

DPB For A Decade Or More

National MP Judith Collins today released figures showing the Ministry of Social Development expects almost three quarters of today's teenage DPB beneficiaries to still be on a benefit in ten years time...

Single Parenthood: Problem Or Not?

New research released from the long-term Christchurch Health and Development study has found, "significant associations" for 21-25 year-olds, "between exposure to single parenthood and anxiety disorder, achievement of educational qualifications, welfare dependence and personal income, arrest or conv...

Losing The War On Family Violence

As the Prime Minister yesterday launched yet another anti-family violence initiative, more babies were being born into non-working homes...

Teenage Birth Rate Rises Again

The 15-19 year-old provisional birth rate rate has risen again from 27...

National's Welfare Agenda Equals The Status Quo

MP Judith Collins today revealed National's welfare policy as copying Australia's work-for-the- dole scheme...

Research Confirms Two Parents Better Than One

Research published in the July 2007 on-line journal of the International Child and Youth Care Network confirms that the best environment for children to be raised in is with two biological married parents...

New Book Questions Case For Welfare

A new book The Outcomes of Income Transfers assesses the benefits of state redistribution...

Maori 8 Times More Likely To Be Teenage Parents On Welfare

Maori make up 19 percent of the 16-19 year-old population but 54 percent of 16-19 year-old parents on welfare...

Minister Contradicted By Own Ministry

"The Minister for Social Development, David Benson-Pope, has been contradicted yet again," Lindsay Mitchell, welfare commentator said today...

Question Mark Over Youth Unemployment

Sweden's Ban On Smacking A Failure

More Migrants On DPB and Sickness Benefits

Minister Mistaken Over Growth In Incapacity Benefits

Delayed Motherhood Improves Outcomes

Astonishing Recommendation By Parliamentarians

From DPB To Sickness And Invalid Benefits - A Record

NZ: Highest Rate Of Lone Parents On Welfare

Minister Ignores Own Department's Research

Removal Of S59 A Gross Failure To Tackle Child Abuse

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Nannies to Right of Us, Nannies to the Left of Us.

The Press has done an editorial criticising the Labour government's Nanny attitudes...

Posted by Jim at 10:15 am on June 23, 2008

Welcome Home: the journeys of David Mamet and George McGovern.

A few days ago numerous sites discussed ...

Posted by Jim at 5:55 pm on March 15, 2008

Dominion Post in needless panic

The Dominion Post in New Zealand recently published a doomsday prognosis based on the antiquated bugaboo of overpopulation...

Posted by Jim at 12:01 pm on January 4, 2008

Does Liberalism Have a Heart?

A presentation given to the European Freedom Summit in Berlin...

Posted by Jim at 8:14 am on August 29, 2007

The moral problems of state power in regards to war.

Classical liberals and libertarians have often applied the morality of the individual to the collective...

Posted by Jim at 2:47 am on July 21, 2007

Kiwi health: spend more, care less

New Zealand has one of the pioneering nationalized health services in the world...

Posted by Jim at 1:48 am on July 14, 2007

Hurricanes and hot air: the sequel

I suspect we shall hear more about this from the anthropogenic warming alarmists...

Posted by Jim at 2:39 pm on April 4, 2007

Morality and Consistency: Why Left and Right both threaten freedom.

Some people still fall for the idea that conservatives are for "limited government"...

Posted by Jim at 3:06 am on March 17, 2007

Ageing, population and the welfare state.

There are some who will take this as bad news...

Posted by Jim at 8:14 am on March 15, 2007

The bankruptcy of conservatism.

The political Left has an ideology, it may be terribly flawed, based on false premises, filled with empty promises and contradictory, but it is an ideology...

Posted by Jim at 8:07 am on March 5, 2007

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