Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

22 April 2015

Free GP visits for under 13s – an unequivocally broken election promise

National could not have been clearer in their wording during the election campaign: Their own website still says: More than 400,000 primary school-aged children will be able to go to…
21 April 2015

The decontextualisation of ANZAC Day

Everyone else is giving their reckons on the treatment of ANZAC Day this year, as we commemorate the centenary of the first year of World War I. So here are…
20 April 2015

What does it say when a child rapist is painted as the victim?

[Content note: child sexual abuse, rape culture] There are many, many horrifying aspects to this case recently heard in the Napier District Court, of a 17-year-old who repeatedly raped a…
17 April 2015

Sassiest party political broadcast of all time?

This is turning into a semi-regular feature at this rate: Hilarious Party Political Videos of the 2015 UK General Election. Just a week ago it was the UK Greens with…
17 April 2015

QOTD: McFlock on the Iraq deployment

As highlighted by a moderator at The Standard: So, to recap: John Key is sending soldiers (we can’t identify) into an area (roughly outlined) for a length of time (we’re…