Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Politics

  • How Dirty Politics hurt low-paid workers

    (Published earlier today at The Standard.) New bits and pieces from Dirty Politics are coming to the fore every day, painting a picture of a systematic, deliberate strategy to use…

  • The right’s lack of diversity

    In my previous post where I talked about the diversity of policy on the left as a strength I said: A lot of people are still stuck in a First…

  • The bottomless Labour-Green divide

    Mea culpa. It’s a bit of a Buzzfeed-style clickbait headline, but it’s also a political meme which I really wish we could put out to pasture. It seems like every…

  • The Nation’s leaders’ debate

    This morning in New Zealand politics can best be summed up with one fantastic image. I dragged myself out of bed at the ungodly hour of 9am to tune in…

  • Everything in moderation

    I’m not sure it really warranted being front-page news (Gaza? MH17? Anyone?) but the announcement of Mike Hosking as the anointed moderator for TVNZ’s political leaders’ debates was always going…