Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: National

  • Tea breaks are creeping communism

    A classic National Party campaign poster did the rounds on Twitter following Farrar’s latest round of “Labour is now the extreme left” scaremongering. What’s funny is how little the right’s…

  • Woodhouse: tough on bad employers?

    It should be heartening to see a National Minister of Labour (sorry, “Workplace Relations and Safety”) handing out to “bad” employers some of the no-nonsense tough-talk the right usually reserves…

  • On poverty, parenting, and Paula

    Of course it would be Paula Bennett, the government’s most infamous ladder-retracting Minister, getting headlines about irresponsible parenting being the real cause of children going to school with no lunches. “[Voting…

  • Groser’s bid for WTO role pure vanity – and involving the GCSB pure self-interest

    Joint reporting by the NZ Herald and The Intercept has broken the news this morning that the GCSB was involved in spying on other candidates for the WTO director general role,…

  • Who said it? Shane Reti vs. Aaron Gilmore

    There’s an odd trend among National Party backbenchers. Slipping in on the list, or shunted into safe seats by a party at the height of its power, they’ve bought all…