Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Government

10 April 2015

QOTD: Gordon Campbell on the Hobbit Law

The Green Party has unhelpfully pointed out that National’s dirty deal with Warner Bros to strip Kiwi film workers of their rights as employees didn’t deliver all those jobs we…
9 April 2015

Best or worst party political broadcast of all time?

I was almost crying watching this offering from the UK Green Party, and I honestly can’t tell you if it was from joy, laughter, shock or horror. The BBC’s poll-of-polls…
9 April 2015

Paid parental leave back on the cards?

I suspect the media are going to get a lot of mileage out of “the Winston effect” over the rest of this parliamentary term – but you can’t blame them,…
8 April 2015

It’s almost like John Key doesn’t realise he’s the Prime Minister

There are two John Keys. That’s the only way to explain it. There’s the John Key who has been sitting on the ninth floor of the Beehive for seven years…
8 April 2015

Snowden, surveillance, dick pics

I’m late to the party on this most excellent Last Week Tonight segment on surveillance, Edward Snowden, and whether, right now, a US government employee is looking at your dick…