Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Dirty Politics

  • They hear everything you say

    The Herald reports: #snowdenNZ : The price of the Five Eyes club: Mass spying on friendly nations More from mickysavage at The Standard: NZ spies on its Pacific neighbours and The…

  • Political donations and conflicts of interest

    Danyl has some thought-provoking comments about the Herald’s analysis of electoral donations: MPs and other political insiders get really upset if you suggest to them that this is all basically political corruption.…

  • 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…

  • 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’…

  • Who texts the PM?

    An OIA request for information about the Prime Minister deleting his text messages is back (hat-tip to @eey0re) and Wayne Eagleson has found another wafer-thin excuse for the wholesale deletion…