Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • Getting more women into Parliament

    Natwatch posted recently at The Standard about National’s difficulty finding enough women to put into Cabinet, and EEO Commissioner Dr Jackie Blue, herself a former National MP, has also called…

  • QOTD: Saziah Bashir on playing at poverty

    A great read at Pantograph Punch, on the problems with how we talk about poverty. Poverty doesn’t take breaks on the weekends, or holidays over Christmas, or a week in…

  • 10 things you could do instead of a sugar tax

    It’s sugar tax season again, when leftwing politicians hem and haw about increasing the costs of food they don’t like in order to coerce people to be healthier. Are you…

  • Earworm for the day: for Helen Kelly

    When I was helping to organise the inaugural conference of E tū earlier this year, we knew we wanted to make Helen Kelly the first life member of our new union.…

  • There is no surplus

    Radio NZ reports: Tax cuts could soon be on the way with the Government opening up its books today revealing Crown accounts are tracking along nicely. “We’ve always said, if…