Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Politics

  • What has Michael Woodhouse actually got right about employment relations?

    With a caucus of 59, the National Party must have at least one person on the roster who understands basic employment law. The received wisdom is that National is the party…

  • Political donations and conflicts of interest

    Danyl has some thought-provoking comments about the Herald’s analysis of electoral donations: MPs and other political insiders get really upset if you suggest to them that this is all basically political corruption.…

  • The price of the club?

    Back in 2003, John Key had an interesting take on whether it was appropriate to send troops to Iraq: he seemed to think the only factor to consider was whether…

  • John Key has funny ideas about what fundraising means

    I caught our esteemed Prime Minister on Firstline this morning, looking defensive over revelations that he attended a fundraising dinner at Donghua Liu’s house a mere two years ago. Besides…

  • Tory “charity”

    (Originally posted at The Standard.) One of the core differences between the right and the left, it seems, is that the left actually understand that not everything’s about money and…