Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Election 2017

  • Three free years

    With apologies to the Greens – that’s no policy costings unit, it’s a space station. The four State of the Nation addresses held last week make an interesting analogy for…


  • Metiria Turei’s state of the nation

    It’s state of the nation season, which as far as I can tell is a really recent development in NZ politics. It certainly doesn’t have a patch on the utterly…


  • Labour’s reshuffle announced today

    Andrew Little is set to announce a new Shadow Cabinet today  -I know, I know, the phrase Shadow Cabinet is so #ukpol but it’s also too cool not to use:…


  • A glitch in the Matrix

      I’m sure there are rational explanations for the hilarious similarities between John Key (or at least, his office) stating that there is “no factual basis” to his allegations that…


  • Key admits he’s using our troops as vote-bait

    Yesterday in the House, John Key admitted that it’s “no” coincidence that our deployment to Iraq is scheduled to end at the perfect moment – right before the 2017 election.…