Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Greens

  • So … what’s next?

    Election night was, well, a bit anticlimactic, in big-picture terms. The utter loss of the Māori Party was a shock, and a few seats changed hands, and Labour thoroughly shook…

  • Round-up: how we will remember Metiria Turei as Greens co-leader

    As a follow-up to my (incredibly, overwhelming well-read!) post from Wednesday, Thank you Metiria, I wrote this for Radio NZ: I will remember Metiria Turei differently. I will remember people…

  • Thank you, Metiria.

    It was always a possibility in the back of my mind that Metiria Turei’s admission of benefit fraud – and the absolute flood of hatred, hypocrisy, bullying and mucky insinuations…

  • Sunday reads

    A lot of critical thinking about the state and prospects of the left this week – no surprise! Giovanni Tiso: A fresh approach no more: the return of politics in…

  • The One Where I Say “Shagging” on Morning Report

    It’s been a hell of a week in politics and a series of very early mornings for me as I scored a trifecta of appearances on Morning Report to talk…