Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • Tea breaks are creeping communism

    A classic National Party campaign poster did the rounds on Twitter following Farrar’s latest round of “Labour is now the extreme left” scaremongering. What’s funny is how little the right’s…

  • Woodhouse: tough on bad employers?

    It should be heartening to see a National Minister of Labour (sorry, “Workplace Relations and Safety”) handing out to “bad” employers some of the no-nonsense tough-talk the right usually reserves…

  • QOTD: Annabel Crabb on feminism

    At the Sydney Morning Herald: I am a feminist because it bothers me that a woman gets killed by her male partner every single week, and somehow that doesn’t qualify…

  • On poverty, parenting, and Paula

    Of course it would be Paula Bennett, the government’s most infamous ladder-retracting Minister, getting headlines about irresponsible parenting being the real cause of children going to school with no lunches. “[Voting…

  • Cottoning on to new ways of exploiting workers

    Cotton On have hit the news for all the wrong reasons, with FIRST Union revealing that they’re pushing to remove guaranteed rest and meal breaks from workers in their distribution…