Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Politics

  • Defending social services and fighting the real enemy

    A really interesting article on the government’s proposed changes to child protection legislation at Re-Imagining Social Work, looking specifically at the political context and the especially damaging impacts they could…

  • Don’t despair

    I know how you feel, team. It’s year 8 of a National/ACT government and things are looking pretty bleak. And it’s really, really easy to spin down into a spiral…

  • The middle vs the centre

    There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle about the “political centre” in the last week or so,  particularly due to the fact that Andrew Little denied its existence, instead talking…

  • QOTD: Owen Jones on overcoming media bias

    At the Guardian: The left is bitterly accustomed to living with almost farcically hostile media in a country where the press is as much a sophisticated political lobbyist as a…

  • 2016 local government endorsements

    UPDATED: 30/9 with Sustainable Waikato and a busload of Wellington groups! It’s that time of the election season when various groups start putting out their naughty-or-nice lists of local government…