Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Election 2017

  • Emotional politics at Labour’s 2017 Congress

    I popped into Labour’s Congress yesterday to catch up with a few comrades who were down for the big event. Literally everyone was buzzing about a couple of the speeches…

  • I aten’t dead

    April 2017: a hell of a month offline, so damned quiet around here. But I’ve managed to do a bit of writing elsewhere, so don’t fret! Today at The Spinoff:…

  • Why fiscal responsibility is the Bog of Eternal Stench

    Labour and the Greens have announced a cornerstone coalition policy for the 2017 general election: a set of Budget Responsibility Rules which will, per the Greens’ website: … show that…

  • Updated: doing the math on the Labour list

    Back in November I posted about getting more women into Parliament – particularly, through the Labour Party’s list process. Now there have been a few key candidate selections which shift…

  • The political prospects for 2017: living our values

    This week I spoke on an panel with Morgan Godfery and Mike Munro at the Fabian Society in Wellington on the political prospects for 2017. A podcast of the discussion…