Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Politics

  • Another spotlight on National’s gross mistreatment of beneficiaries

    It’s the old National Party lie, isn’t it? As reported in The Press: New Zealand’s social welfare system “dehumanises” people in need, with beneficiaries described as “scared stiff” of Work…


  • 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…


  • The surplus lie

    Andrew Little delivered his pre-Budget speech in Wellington yesterday, and the pullquote everyone’s talking about was some seriously no-nonsense stuff: …[National’s] promise was clear. Their good economic stewardship would see us in…


  • Blogging, forgetting, and legacy

    Giovanni Tiso has some good serious thoughts on the efforts of one Dirty Politics-affiliated blogger to get her writing stricken from the national record: The case of lawyer Cathy Odgers…


  • A glitch in the Matrix

      I’m sure there are rational explanations for the hilarious similarities between John Key (or at least, his office) stating that there is “no factual basis” to his allegations that…