Stephanie Rodgers

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

Author: Stephanie Rodgers

  • Jobs! What are they good for?

    Your brighter future, New Zealand: A Wellington employment training centre has had its Government contract abruptly pulled because it did not focus on placing people in the hospitality, aged care and call…

  • What is going on NOW with the local-government Right?

    Richard Harman has the goods on the latest outbreak of weirdness from the local-government right – and this time it’s Wellington’s turn. Finance Minister Bill English has made a rare…

  • How we talk about tax: the shiftless hordes and the hard-working rich

    This is how Stuff chose to headline an article about the way income tax is paid in New Zealand: On the Facebook thumbnail, it was even worse: (Congratulations, baby, you’re…

  • #Brexit

    What else is there to say? More at The Guardian. But another note so it’s not lost in the mists of Twitter: people are asking, why has this happened? Is…

  • Discrimination isn’t accidental

    This is probably not surprising to any women who are in academia: New research show there’s a considerable gap between men and women when it comes to being promoted to…