Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • 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…

  • Bold politics: redefining a good business model

    I’m slightly in love with this idea of Jeremy Corbyn’s: to stop companies paying dividends until they pay the people who work for them a living wage. He said in…

  • Women of #nzpol: still fighting rape culture in 2016

    The women-of-#nzpol roundup is brought to you in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also because: Well, 2016 is definitely not going to be the year…