Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Politics

  • What is going on with the local-government Right?

    Something really, really weird is going on in the right, and I’m not talking about John Key, who has politically driven a political referendum process about our national identity for…

  • Escaping the beartrap: good policy costs money

    I wrote a while back about Metiria Turei’s 2016 state of the nation address, and my reservations about the idea of an “independent” policy costings unit. I said: I want…

  • Three free years

    With apologies to the Greens – that’s no policy costings unit, it’s a space station. The four State of the Nation addresses held last week make an interesting analogy for…

  • Quote of the day: Bernie Sanders and a theory of change

    From Jedediah Purdy’s response to a critique of Sanders at Huffington Post: Krugman’s mistake is very basic. He’s wrong about the Sanders campaign’s theory of change. It isn’t that a…

  • Metiria Turei’s state of the nation

    It’s state of the nation season, which as far as I can tell is a really recent development in NZ politics. It certainly doesn’t have a patch on the utterly…