Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: nicola young

6 August 2016

Wellington mayoral candidates on The Nation

I dragged myself out of bed at the ungodly hour of 9am* to get the coffee on before The Nation this morning. If you missed this very revealing look at…
29 June 2016

What is going on NOW with the local-government Right?

Richard Harman has the goods on the latest outbreak of weirdness from the local-government right – and this time it’s Wellington’s turn. Finance Minister Bill English has made a rare…
6 April 2016

Nicola Young’s scary “solution” to people begging in Wellington

[Content note: dehumanizing language about homeless/poor people, classism] As we stand there are four candidates confirmed running for the mayoralty of Wellington – and one of them is Nicola Young,…
1 March 2016

What is going on with the local-government Right?

Something really, really weird is going on in the right, and I’m not talking about John Key, who has politically driven a political referendum process about our national identity for…