Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Economy

  • Stopping the clock

    First up, I need to make make it clear as someone who’s spent the majority of my adult life in the movement and who still does a bit of contract…

  • The government’s housing message dilemma

    John Key was across the media yesterday, trying to tamp down suggestions the Budget would do anything at all to address the housing “issue” which everyone else in New Zealand…

  • Make the bludgers pay their fair share

    Few things in this world make me eyeroll as strongly as the quibblers who jump up whenever you point out the discrepancy between the amount of money lost to benefit…

  • Migration, taps and growing pains

    I keep promising to review Anat Shenker-Osorio’s book Don’t Buy It. I’m getting there, I promise. My copy is almost more Post-It Note than paper at the moment. But there’s…

  • How we talk about industrial action

    There’s a problem with the way we talk about working people who take industrial action. The problem is we don’t talk about them at all. Check out the framing of…