Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Author: Stephanie Rodgers

  • David Farrar gets it wrong on abortion law in NZ

    Oops, two posts criticising DPF in a row, that’s a little weird – a consequence of the Labour Party’s leadership dominating the news, and my reticence about wading into that issue,…

  • Creepy behaviour from David Farrar

    It wasn’t at all surprising to me that David Farrar is scathing of students who have to seek hardship grants to pay their bills, categorising them as bludgers who “say yes to…

  • WANTED: new ideas on child poverty

    It’s great to see John Key taking a sudden interest in addressing child poverty in New Zealand. In Parliament in 2012, when Metiria Turei produced a graph showing how fast…

  • The lurch to the right begins

    John Key is busily constructing the smokescreen for his third term, and the key phrase is going to be “centre ground“. “Obviously there are some things we want to do;…

  • This is not an election advertisement

    The laws we have around Election Day are just a bit silly. Yesterday everyone’s Twitter feeds were a bit like this: um…er…ahh….ummm….dum de do………ahem…….18 hours 53 minutes to go………nice weather…