Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter roundup: Chris Brown’s tour

    The “Women of #nzpol Twitter roundup” is brought to you in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also because: Yesterday’s roundup went well, so here’s another.…

  • Women of #nzpol Twitter: on forced contraception for beneficiaries

    A few months ago I suggested that I should do a woman-only Twitter round-up on topical issues, in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also…

  • Anne Tolley’s next abhorrent idea: forced sterilization of poor people

    It’s going to be incredibly difficult not to Godwin the hell out of this one, people. Appearing on TVOne’s Q+A programme this morning, Social Development minister Anne Tolley would not…

  • The myth of focusing on front line services

    I saw a shocking thing on Twitter yesterday: "Let's put this to rest, this is a state responsibility". @AnneTolleyMP rules out more outsourcing of frontline cyf services — Newshub Nation…

  • Centrism and Canada

    I’m not an expert on Canadian politics, so the only thing I have to go on regarding its New Democratic Party is what Rob Salmond says in his latest argument on…