Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: public service

  • Steven Joyce and policy-by-Twitter

    It would be a perfect episode of The Thick of It, but it’s real: today, the Minister of Fixing Things Steven Joyce fundamentally altered government policy by trying to get…

  • How we got here

    When I saw this article about the Takapuna Kathmandu store deliberately destroying clothing, sleeping bags and tents before disposing of them, I started thinking about how the hell we got…

  • How we talk about industrial action

    There’s a problem with the way we talk about working people who take industrial action. The problem is we don’t talk about them at all. Check out the framing of…

  • Escaping the beartrap: good policy costs money

    I wrote a while back about Metiria Turei’s 2016 state of the nation address, and my reservations about the idea of an “independent” policy costings unit. I said: I want…

  • The myth of focusing on front line services

    I saw a shocking thing on Twitter yesterday: "Let's put this to rest, this is a state responsibility". @AnneTolleyMP rules out more outsourcing of frontline cyf services — Newshub Nation…