Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Politics

  • How the Dirty Politics machine continues to do its work

    “There are a few basic propositions with negative campaigning that are worth knowing about. It lowers turnout, favours the right more than the left as the right continue to turn…


  • QOTD: Supreme hubris from POAL CEO Tony Gibson

    On Q&A yesterday, Ports of Auckland CEO Tony Gibson said regarding their planned – and thoroughly rebuffed by the community – wharf extensions: “I don’t think we’re arrogant as a…


  • The definition of irony …

    … surely, must be Peter Dunne complaining (a) that the government hasn’t fulfilled its promises to him and (b) about the security of metadata: “The question that the Law Commission…


  • NZQT or Kafka?

    A now-familiar scene in our House of Representatives: OPPOSITION MP Does the Minister agree with the concerns raised by [group] about [issue]? GOVERNMENT MINISTER The member’s facts are incorrect. OPPOSITION MP Point…


  • 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…