Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: john key

  • We all care

    [Content note: discussion of dead children, Syrian refugee crisis – no images] I haven’t seen a single person genuinely react to the harrowing photo of Aylan Kurdi – or any…

  • 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…

  • Words have meanings?

    A beautiful piece from Clarke & Dawe which is always relevant to politics in Aussie and NZ, but perhaps especially so in a week when a government which campaigned on…

  • 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…

  • A glitch in the Matrix

      I’m sure there are rational explanations for the hilarious similarities between John Key (or at least, his office) stating that there is “no factual basis” to his allegations that…