Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: referendum

  • The truth behind the lobbyists who want the right to hit kids

    New Zealand First’s Tracey Martin was on Q&A on the weekend floating the idea of a referendum on the old section 59 of the Crimes Act, i.e. the one about…

  • On Brexit

    I was discussing Brexit with a group of Wellington lefties last night over a few craft beers* and was dismayed to hear some of them applying the analysis that it…

  • The flag and democracy

    The results of the first flag referendum has really thrown up some bizarre perspectives on democracy in New Zealand. Like the person I jostled with on a mutual friend’s Facebook…

  • Women of #nzpol: on the #nzflag challenger

    The women-of-#nzpol Twitter roundup is brought to you in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also because: Well, that was disappointing. Not surprising, just … disappointing.…

  • Flag referendum 1

    I’m a politics nerd, so of course I was excited to receive my voting papers in the mail for the first part of the flag referendum – despite strongly disagreeing…