Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: narrative

  • Why fiscal responsibility is the Bog of Eternal Stench

    Labour and the Greens have announced a cornerstone coalition policy for the 2017 general election: a set of Budget Responsibility Rules which will, per the Greens’ website: … show that…

  • Defending social services and fighting the real enemy

    A really interesting article on the government’s proposed changes to child protection legislation at Re-Imagining Social Work, looking specifically at the political context and the especially damaging impacts they could…

  • QOTD: Owen Jones on overcoming media bias

    At the Guardian: The left is bitterly accustomed to living with almost farcically hostile media in a country where the press is as much a sophisticated political lobbyist as a…

  • Lefty book reviews: Don’t Buy It

    Where to start with Anat Shenker-Osorio’s Don’t Buy It: The Trouble With Talking Nonsense About The Economy? This review seems redundant, because literally every person I’ve encountered in the past…

  • How we talk about tax: the shiftless hordes and the hard-working rich

    This is how Stuff chose to headline an article about the way income tax is paid in New Zealand: On the Facebook thumbnail, it was even worse: (Congratulations, baby, you’re…