Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: National

  • The other war of the polls

    The Dominion Post has been given access to two polls telling slightly different stories about the Wellington mayoral race: Two polls conducted in the past week have revealed Wellington’s mayoral…


  • A change underway in local government?

    Things feel pretty bleak on the left these days. It seems like the forces of short-sighted self-centered capitalism reign supreme, that darned mainstream media isn’t asking the questions we want…


  • US ship visits are about compliance, not maturity

    Via Radio NZ: On Thursday, United States Vice President Joe Biden confirmed during a meeting with Prime Minister John Key in Auckland that America would send a ship to the…


  • Steven Joyce and policy-by-Twitter

    It would be a perfect episode of The Thick of It, but it’s real: today, the Minister of Fixing Things Steven Joyce fundamentally altered government policy by trying to get…


  • Jobs! What are they good for?

    Your brighter future, New Zealand: A Wellington employment training centre has had its Government contract abruptly pulled because it did not focus on placing people in the hospitality, aged care and call…