Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: MMP

  • 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…

  • What kind of government would National lead?

    The choice for NZ voters is becoming clearer in the last days of the 2014 election. The irony is that after John Key’s persistent scaremongering about the “five-headed monster” of…

  • The right’s lack of diversity

    In my previous post where I talked about the diversity of policy on the left as a strength I said: A lot of people are still stuck in a First…

  • The bottomless Labour-Green divide

    Mea culpa. It’s a bit of a Buzzfeed-style clickbait headline, but it’s also a political meme which I really wish we could put out to pasture. It seems like every…

  • The coat-tail rule and democracy

    Allow me to fly in the face of an accepted truth in NZ politics by saying this: there is absolutely nothing undemocratic about the MMP “coat-tail” rules. This has quickly…