Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: bill english

  • So … what’s next?

    Election night was, well, a bit anticlimactic, in big-picture terms. The utter loss of the Māori Party was a shock, and a few seats changed hands, and Labour thoroughly shook…

  • There is no surplus

    Radio NZ reports: Tax cuts could soon be on the way with the Government opening up its books today revealing Crown accounts are tracking along nicely. “We’ve always said, if…

  • A change underway in local government?

    Things feel pretty bleak on the left these days. It seems like the forces of short-sighted self-centered capitalism reign supreme, that darned mainstream media isn’t asking the questions we want…

  • What is going on NOW with the local-government Right?

    Richard Harman has the goods on the latest outbreak of weirdness from the local-government right – and this time it’s Wellington’s turn. Finance Minister Bill English has made a rare…

  • Our kids are still getting sick in unhealthy homes

    Andrew Little put the hard word on John Key over housing in Question Time yesterday: Prime Minister John Key implied that mould problems in some Housing New Zealand homes could…