Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Politics

  • Andrea Vance: five important unanswered questions

    Andrea Vance has posted five unanswered questions from the Beehive – click through for her answers: 1. When is an asset sale not an asset sale?  2. They won’t be…

  • The Northland by-election

    With Mike Sabin’s precipitous resignation, a by-election is on the cards in Northland, and soon: https://twitter.com/philiplyth/status/560936428948189184 https://twitter.com/philiplyth/status/560937099889623040 It’s exciting times for politics nerds like myself, but the fact is that…

  • The state of the nation

    I probably don’t have a lot to add to what’s already been said about Andrew Little’s state of the nation speech this morning. It was sensible and forward-looking – an…

  • Hashtags of our time: #JohnKeyLiterature

    Yesterday following John Key’s snide little put-down of Kiwi literary hero Eleanor Catton, the #JohnKeyLiterature hashtag went berserk on NZ Twitter, kicked off by the amazing @RozS_P. I highly recommend…

  • Nick Smith: like a boss

    Last night on Twitter, Laila Harré noted the perfect meaninglessness of the “10 dramatic changes” Nick Smith plans to make to the Resource Management Act: 1. Add management of natural hazards…