Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • QOTD: Morgan G on G Morgan and the Treaty

    From Gareth Morgan and the Pākehā Pathology at Maui Street: Thus the burden of compromise always falls to Māori – we can push only for what is compatible with their system –…

  • How to respond to Charlie Hebdo?

    Twelve people have died in the attack on French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo, and the response from many people – from a New Zealand perspective fairly divorced from the immediate…

  • The focus on paid work

    We talk about paid work a lot in NZ politics. It’s the cure for any societal ill you care to name: poverty, mental illness, economic growth, domestic violence. But the…

  • The dogwhistling of the Treaty

    Gareth Morgan has a four-part series in the Herald this month in a thinly-veiled ad campaign for his new book, Are we there yet? The future of the Treaty of…

  • So what is the Boots Theory?

    With my change of Twitter handle a few people have asked about the name, “Boots Theory”. So it’s as good a time as any to re-post one of my favourite…