Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • Numbers are meaningless when families are living in cars

    Housing affordability was an issue in the election – but the discussion was derailed by arguments about the intricacies of capital gains tax and exactly how many hundreds of thousands of…

  • WANTED: new ideas on child poverty

    It’s great to see John Key taking a sudden interest in addressing child poverty in New Zealand. In Parliament in 2012, when Metiria Turei produced a graph showing how fast…

  • Great family policy from the Greens

    I’m not just saying this because I suggested exactly this policy three months ago on Twitter, though it is always satisfying to see great minds thinking alike! The Greens’ Welcome…

  • The cost of a bowl of Weet-Bix

    One of the most dishonest arguments the right ever put forward on the subject of poverty is around one of the simplest things in life: a bowl of Weet-Bix. Yesterday…

  • Hey Jordan, pick me!

    Yesterday Jordan Williams – head of the Taxpayers’ Onion and courageous fighter for the right to call women ugly in private – sent out a tweet which got me all…