Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: anne tolley

  • Anne Tolley should apologise for her own words, if not decades of abuse

    (Content note: child abuse, minimisation of violence against children) The question of public apologies by governments for the wrongs of the past is always contentious. I like to think of…

  • Another spotlight on National’s gross mistreatment of beneficiaries

    It’s the old National Party lie, isn’t it? As reported in The Press: New Zealand’s social welfare system “dehumanises” people in need, with beneficiaries described as “scared stiff” of Work…

  • Hekia Parata challenges the gender pay gap!

    It’s great to see a senior Government Minister addressing serious issues of inequality and structural discrimination in one of our most important professions: “I’m interested in how we attract the…

  • 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…

  • More meaningless numbers

    It’s that time of year when the Government trumpets the success of its welfare reforms. Look! they cry, benefit numbers are down! The repressive, labyrinthine, victim-blaming system works! I’ve written…