Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: National

  • The myth of focusing on front line services

    I saw a shocking thing on Twitter yesterday: "Let's put this to rest, this is a state responsibility". @AnneTolleyMP rules out more outsourcing of frontline cyf services — Newshub Nation…

  • Poor suffering property investors

    Jess McAllen has a great article in the Sunday Star-Times about the plight of renters and the should-be-criminal state of many rental properties in NZ. The rats have evolved. They…

  • That’s just, like, your legal opinion, man

    Almost nothing irritates me like the way politics is reduced to a series of “they saids” – as though nothing is factual, everything is relative, and it’s all about the…

  • Anne Tolley desperate to screw down beneficiaries even further

    So for 18 years, people who have been on stand-down periods from benefits – i.e. forced to stretch whatever savings or credit or charity they can access just in case…

  • It’s all about the game

    For weeks the flag referendum has been a debacle. Nobody understands why we’re not having a simple “do you want to change the flag” vote first, nobody understands how the…