Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Politics

  • Who said it? Shane Reti vs. Aaron Gilmore

    There’s an odd trend among National Party backbenchers. Slipping in on the list, or shunted into safe seats by a party at the height of its power, they’ve bought all…

  • Key admits he’s using our troops as vote-bait

    Yesterday in the House, John Key admitted that it’s “no” coincidence that our deployment to Iraq is scheduled to end at the perfect moment – right before the 2017 election.…

  • Language is power

    Two otherwise-unconnected stories tell us a lot about how our perceptions and attitudes can be deliberately manipulated with the use of language: At The Intercept, The Orwellian re-branding of “mass…

  • John Key’s weird “gotcha” moment on ACC

    Andrew Little was pushing the Prime Minister today on the fact that he’s ripping off workers and businesses to the tune of $350 million in ACC levies in order to…

  • Bridges’ Bridgegate?

    Andrew Geddis lays out the facts on National’s blatant Northland by-election bribe: Maybe the motivations behind this announcement are cynical at best, but at least something good will come out…