The Hand Mirror

The dangers of thinking completely within the private sector box are amply demonstrated by King of the Blog David Farrar today.  He is worr...

Jared at Left Wing rants has written an excellent overview of political parties and their attitudes to/policies on reducing family violence:...

from my professional reading at work (and it's no doubt been in the news as well), i see the IRD is doing work on income-splitting. yeah...

i also received by email this paper on inequality, written by sophie elliot. the paper has received much positive feedback. it's quite ...

The full report, compiled by the World Economic Forum, can be found here. New Zealand comes in at #5 behind Norway, Finland, Sweden and Ice...

In a comprehensive defeat for common sense, the Nats have today announced their plans for youth offender bootcamps . To me, this is everythi...

To my surprise, my first reaction to National's proposed crime tax wasn't entirely negative, although I've certainly got some c...

Cross posted The Domestic Violence (Enhancing Safety) Bill is open for submissions, and as is usual, the bill has been reviewed to assess ...

In their manifesto, the Nats promised to 'hold a binding referendum on MMP no later than 2011'. I don't know where the impetus ...

As Mike Moreu's rather gruesome cartoon suggests, the government's announced increase in employees' ACC levies suggests they...

Something I find really frustrating about about Garth McVicar and other advocates of tougher sentencing is that they present justice as an e...

Normally this sort of thing is anathema to lefties like me - the repressive bourgeois state poking its nose in, telling poor people how to r...

I must admit I have a bit of hard time taking Family First seriously. For start any organization that ranks Winston Peters as New Zealand...

An Australian organisation, Women's Health Goulbourn North East, has just released a report on partner rape, available at http://www.whe...

United Future's family policy has all the vacuous moralising and disingenuous use of research that right wing Christian lobby groups spe...

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience i...

Cross post I'm inclined to see the National party's plan to work-test sole parents as a good thing. We've been told a number o...

Dr Cindy Kiro is a woman with incredible grace under fire. I can't say I agree with every policy proposal she's ever made, but he...

Tax is boring. You could say that tax is to blogging as Weetbix is to cuisine. Still, it's an important matter, especially for women...

What on earth is Act New Zealand smoking? I don't think they want women to vote for them at all. Sir Roger Douglas has just suggested t...