Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: UnitedFuture

  • The growth of the medicinal marijuana issue

    An American I was talking to the other week had seen the media coverage of Helen Kelly’s raising of the medicinal marijuana issue, and noted that marijuana is already being…


  • The definition of irony …

    … surely, must be Peter Dunne complaining (a) that the government hasn’t fulfilled its promises to him and (b) about the security of metadata: “The question that the Law Commission…


  • Northland isn’t Epsom – nor Ohariu

    Danyl Mclauchlan has rebutted the spin around Winston’s victory in Northland – “Labour can’t criticise the Epsom deal now! Hypocrites!” very well. (And after I’d drafted this post, Rob Salmond…


  • What kind of government would National lead?

    The choice for NZ voters is becoming clearer in the last days of the 2014 election. The irony is that after John Key’s persistent scaremongering about the “five-headed monster” of…


  • The opening addresses of Election 2014

    (Updated: more links to videos for your viewing pleasure) Last night the opening party political addresses were broadcast on TV One, simultaneous with an All Blacks match and a live-tweeted…