Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • John Key has funny ideas about what fundraising means

    I caught our esteemed Prime Minister on Firstline this morning, looking defensive over revelations that he attended a fundraising dinner at Donghua Liu’s house a mere two years ago. Besides…

  • Tory “charity”

    (Originally posted at The Standard.) One of the core differences between the right and the left, it seems, is that the left actually understand that not everything’s about money and…

  • The right to strike

    The right to strike is recognised internationally as a fundamental workers’ right – though it’s not universally respected, like many other basic human rights. Global union IndustriALL notes five reasons…

  • QOTD: Gordon Campbell on SkyCity

    At Scoop: For the record, we started out last week with (a) Prime Minister John Key telling the public that a $402 million convention centre would be only an ‘eyesore’…

  • QOTD: Hide on Sabin

    From Rodney’s latest in the Herald on Sunday: The date of any briefing is explosive. It’s certainly not nitpicking. Sabin chaired the law and order select committee, which oversees the…