Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: grant robertson

  • Benefits, Budgets and b***s***

    Are they going to do it? At long last, isthe Labour government going to significantly increase base benefits and ensure that people actually have enough to live on, reversing the…

  • Generational change

    This paragraph in a eulogy for Jim Anderton on Newsroom, got me thinking about generational change in politics: Trapped in near-perpetual opposition since the first Labour Government of 1935-49, with…

  • Emotional politics at Labour’s 2017 Congress

    I popped into Labour’s Congress yesterday to catch up with a few comrades who were down for the big event. Literally everyone was buzzing about a couple of the speeches…

  • 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…

  • Little: ACC levies need to come down

    Most of the attention on today’s episode of Q&A focused on the two biggest issues in NZ politics at the moment – the Northland by-election and Nicky Hager’s most recent GCSB…