Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Government

  • Marama Davidson’s campaign launch

    I was beyond excited to see Marama Davidson stand up to announce her bid for the co-leadership of the Greens. I’ve been a Marama fan for an age, so I…

  • Has Labour kept its promise on the TPPA?

    There’s a question I haven’t seen answered in the most recent coverage of the abysmally-renamed Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership: how does it line up with the…

  • 2017 rewind: Why fiscal responsibility is the Bog of Eternal Stench

    The fourth-most-read post on Boots Theory last year questioned a pretty strongly-rooted tenet of modern Labour Party faith. People have said to me since the election result, “see, it worked!”…

  • Generational change

    This paragraph in a eulogy for Jim Anderton on Newsroom, got me thinking about generational change in politics: Trapped in near-perpetual opposition since the first Labour Government of 1935-49, with…

  • 2017 rewind: Who has to apologise?

    We’re into the top 5 most-read posts on Boots Theory in 2017. First up, we revisit the Metiria Turei story, and ask ourselves why so many people’s lasting impression is,…