Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Government

  • Escaping the beartrap: good policy costs money

    I wrote a while back about Metiria Turei’s 2016 state of the nation address, and my reservations about the idea of an “independent” policy costings unit. I said: I want…

  • TPPA day of action tomorrow

    Tomorrow is the signing of the TPPA in Auckland and events are planned up and down the country to demonstrate to this government that we oppose their ridiculous, minimal-benefit, high-risk…

  • Quote of the day: Bernie Sanders and a theory of change

    From Jedediah Purdy’s response to a critique of Sanders at Huffington Post: Krugman’s mistake is very basic. He’s wrong about the Sanders campaign’s theory of change. It isn’t that a…

  • Charging for OIAs

    A number of journos on Twitter have started highlighting the somewhat ridiculous amounts of money they’re being quoted by government departments and DHBs to fulfil requests made under the Official…

  • Metiria Turei’s state of the nation

    It’s state of the nation season, which as far as I can tell is a really recent development in NZ politics. It certainly doesn’t have a patch on the utterly…