Stephanie Rodgers

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

Author: Stephanie Rodgers

  • I don’t want to lift children out of poverty

    I’ve been thinking more about how we frame our messages this election year, and I’ve realised something pretty significant. I don’t want to lift children out of poverty. Because poverty…

  • Why fiscal responsibility is the Bog of Eternal Stench

    Labour and the Greens have announced a cornerstone coalition policy for the 2017 general election: a set of Budget Responsibility Rules which will, per the Greens’ website: … show that…

  • The challenge for women in 2017

    I was asked to speak on a panel of “Inspiring Women” with MPs Jenny Salesa and Mojo Mather (no pressure!) at the PPTA Conference on 4 March, on the topic…

  • QOTD: Felix Marwick on the OIA and John Key’s hats

    I missed this earlier in the week: an update on Felix Marwick’s long-running attempts to uncover the extent of John Key’s communications with bloggers (i.e. Farrar and Slater). The last…

  • Werewolf on leftwing misogyny

    Two stonkingly good posts over at Werewolf this week – both superficially about the ongoing tantrums of Martyn Bradbury, but more fundamentally about the direction for the left and the…