Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Politics

  • The right to strike

    The right to strike is recognised internationally as a fundamental workers’ right – though it’s not universally respected, like many other basic human rights. Global union IndustriALL notes five reasons…

  • QOTD: Gordon Campbell on SkyCity

    At Scoop: For the record, we started out last week with (a) Prime Minister John Key telling the public that a $402 million convention centre would be only an ‘eyesore’…

  • QOTD: Hide on Sabin

    From Rodney’s latest in the Herald on Sunday: The date of any briefing is explosive. It’s certainly not nitpicking. Sabin chaired the law and order select committee, which oversees the…

  • Labour takes a stand against zero-hour contracts

    Iain Lees-Galloway, Labour’s spokesperson on Labour Issues, has lodged a member’s bill which would ban the use of zero-hour contracts: “Unlike casual agreements that provide flexibility for both employer and…

  • How does #nzpol do on Facebook?

    Feinstein Doak has a post up with the Top Political Facebook Posts of 2014, and the results are interesting: John Key, unsurprisingly given that his Facebook page has over 180,000 likes,…