Stephanie Rodgers

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

Author: Stephanie Rodgers

  • Another spotlight on National’s gross mistreatment of beneficiaries

    It’s the old National Party lie, isn’t it? As reported in The Press: New Zealand’s social welfare system “dehumanises” people in need, with beneficiaries described as “scared stiff” of Work…


  • Hekia Parata challenges the gender pay gap!

    It’s great to see a senior Government Minister addressing serious issues of inequality and structural discrimination in one of our most important professions: “I’m interested in how we attract the…


  • The surplus lie

    Andrew Little delivered his pre-Budget speech in Wellington yesterday, and the pullquote everyone’s talking about was some seriously no-nonsense stuff: …[National’s] promise was clear. Their good economic stewardship would see us in…


  • Blogging, forgetting, and legacy

    Giovanni Tiso has some good serious thoughts on the efforts of one Dirty Politics-affiliated blogger to get her writing stricken from the national record: The case of lawyer Cathy Odgers…


  • Improve your lexicon: lame

    I’m on a never-ending quest to improve my vocabulary – both by expanding it, and by getting rid of some of the more objectionable language which we all use without…