Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: NZ First

  • The truth behind the lobbyists who want the right to hit kids

    New Zealand First’s Tracey Martin was on Q&A on the weekend floating the idea of a referendum on the old section 59 of the Crimes Act, i.e. the one about…

  • 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.…

  • Hekia Parata challenges the gender pay gap!

    It’s great to see a senior Government Minister addressing serious issues of inequality and structural discrimination in one of our most important professions: “I’m interested in how we attract the…

  • Paid parental leave back on the cards?

    I suspect the media are going to get a lot of mileage out of “the Winston effect” over the rest of this parliamentary term – but you can’t blame them,…

  • Northland isn’t Epsom – nor Ohariu

    Danyl Mclauchlan has rebutted the spin around Winston’s victory in Northland – “Labour can’t criticise the Epsom deal now! Hypocrites!” very well. (And after I’d drafted this post, Rob Salmond…