Mitchell’s 10 positive trends

Lindsay Mitchell blogs on 10 positive trends in NZ:

  1. A 20% drop in assaults on (due to tasers)
  2. A 35% drop in Sudden Infant Deaths
  3. A 17% drop in recorded
  4. A 25% drop in the smoking rate
  5. A drop in the teenage birth rate since 2008
  6. A drop in the abortion rate for last five years
  7. A 60 year low road toll
  8. A long-term drop in the child mortality rate
  9. A 23% drop in the male suicide rate
  10. A 10% drop in the rheumatic rate among children

could add on stuff such as a huge drop in the number of 13 to 18 year olds drink alcohol.