Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: jacinda ardern

  • Fear

    In a post lost to the mists of Internet time, on one of those forums like Tumblr or Ask A Manager, a tech support person related the tale of helping…

  • 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…

  • Labour’s first 100 days

    Labour’s come under some fire as its (drumroll please) First One Hundred Days In Office has ticked over. [The email from Labour] talked about how it had done what it…

  • Do Good Thursday: #KnitforJacinda and Little Sprouts

    Here’s a lovely convergence of events. I’d been meaning to cover Little Sprouts for Do Good Thursday for a while, and then the whole idea of New Zealanders knitting for…

  • 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…