Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Government

  • The definition of irony …

    … surely, must be Peter Dunne complaining (a) that the government hasn’t fulfilled its promises to him and (b) about the security of metadata: “The question that the Law Commission…

  • NZQT or Kafka?

    A now-familiar scene in our House of Representatives: OPPOSITION MP Does the Minister agree with the concerns raised by [group] about [issue]? GOVERNMENT MINISTER The member’s facts are incorrect. OPPOSITION MP Point…

  • QOTD: anonymous ex-TSA manager on behavioural profiling

    As reported in The Intercept, a refreshingly frank take on a facet of modern “security” measures in airports: A second former Behavior Detection Officer manager, who also asked not to…

  • Northland isn’t Epsom – nor Ohariu

    Danyl Mclauchlan has rebutted the spin around Winston’s victory in Northland – “Labour can’t criticise the Epsom deal now! Hypocrites!” very well. (And after I’d drafted this post, Rob Salmond…

  • Groser’s bid for WTO role pure vanity – and involving the GCSB pure self-interest

    Joint reporting by the NZ Herald and The Intercept has broken the news this morning that the GCSB was involved in spying on other candidates for the WTO director general role,…