Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Greens

  • 2016 local government endorsements

    UPDATED: 30/9 with Sustainable Waikato and a busload of Wellington groups! It’s that time of the election season when various groups start putting out their naughty-or-nice lists of local government…

  • On the M.O.U.

    I’m a bit late to the party on the Labour/Greens M.O.U. but letting the dust clear a little before passing judgement is perhaps not such a bad thing. The M.O.U.…

  • The Labour/Greens deal

    Well, that all seems straightforward enough. https://twitter.com/nzlabour/status/737518526102003714 https://twitter.com/nzlabour/status/737494908248817665 There are varied opinions on the value of a formal Labour/Greens arrangement. Like: it’s superfluous because it’s so obvious they’ll work together…

  • Easter trading

    Easter Sunday is one of the three-and-a-half days a year when (most) shops have to be closed. That could be changing. From Denise Roche of the Greens: The new rules…

  • Escaping the beartrap: good policy costs money

    I wrote a while back about Metiria Turei’s 2016 state of the nation address, and my reservations about the idea of an “independent” policy costings unit. I said: I want…