Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: bill english

  • Heartless government

    A few stories of recent weeks which show exactly what kind of government we have. Last August, Emma-Lita Bourne died of pneumonia because the state house her family lived in…

  • The surplus lie

    Andrew Little delivered his pre-Budget speech in Wellington yesterday, and the pullquote everyone’s talking about was some seriously no-nonsense stuff: …[National’s] promise was clear. Their good economic stewardship would see us in…

  • QOTD: Gordon Campbell on SkyCity

    At Scoop: For the record, we started out last week with (a) Prime Minister John Key telling the public that a $402 million convention centre would be only an ‘eyesore’…

  • No fix for housing affordability as long as we ignore what’s actually affordable

    Housing affordability has been a huge issue in New Zealand for a long time, but some extra fuel has been added to the fire by a recent survey which shows…

  • (Repost) The end of the inequality debate?

    Originally posted at On The Left. Inequality has become a central political issue in New Zealand and around the world. But there’s always been some argument, from the right, that…