Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: inequality

  • Older white men paid double young ethnic women

    That’s not my headline. That’s Stuff’s business section’s headline. Middle-aged white men might be sick of being cast as villains, but a report suggests they should check their privilege. And…

  • Campbell Live on poverty and school lunches

    We said farewell to Campbell Live last week, and from tonight TV3 is delighting our screens with Road Cops in its place, presumably until their shiny new co-hosted totally-what-the-audience-wants current affairs…

  • 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…

  • So what is the Boots Theory?

    With my change of Twitter handle a few people have asked about the name, “Boots Theory”. So it’s as good a time as any to re-post one of my favourite…

  • (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…