Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Welfare

  • QOTD: Michael Sheen on austerity and boldness

    “Do we want to be a society that is supportive, that is inclusive and compassionate, where it is acknowledged that not all can prosper, where those who are most vulnerable,…

  • 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 Northland by-election

    With Mike Sabin’s precipitous resignation, a by-election is on the cards in Northland, and soon: https://twitter.com/philiplyth/status/560936428948189184 https://twitter.com/philiplyth/status/560937099889623040 It’s exciting times for politics nerds like myself, but the fact is that…

  • The state of the nation

    I probably don’t have a lot to add to what’s already been said about Andrew Little’s state of the nation speech this morning. It was sensible and forward-looking – an…

  • More meaningless numbers

    It’s that time of year when the Government trumpets the success of its welfare reforms. Look! they cry, benefit numbers are down! The repressive, labyrinthine, victim-blaming system works! I’ve written…