Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: public service

  • Do Good Thursday: mental health

    This week for Do Good Thursday I’m boosting this fantastic post by Jessica McAllen about the organisations who work bloody hard filling in the gaps in our under-funded, under-resourced mental…

  • Taxes, greed and David Seymour

    Fleshing out one of my recent Twitter rants, kicked off by this tragic bit of capitalist propaganda from the “leader” of the ACT “Party”: It's Tax Freedom Day. In other…

  • QOTD: Max Rashbrooke on public vs private sector

    Max Rashbrooke at the excellent Good Society, on the contrasting behaviours of Radio NZ and Uber during the recent quake: … apart from the ludicrous presumption that tonnes of people…

  • There is no surplus

    Radio NZ reports: Tax cuts could soon be on the way with the Government opening up its books today revealing Crown accounts are tracking along nicely. “We’ve always said, if…

  • 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…