Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: social spending

  • The shape of our new government

    So here’s what our new government promises, as reported by Stuff: Some key points from the NZF deal: – $1b per annum Regional Development Fund, ​- Re-establish the New Zealand Forestry Service…

  • 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…

  • Our kids are still getting sick in unhealthy homes

    Andrew Little put the hard word on John Key over housing in Question Time yesterday: Prime Minister John Key implied that mould problems in some Housing New Zealand homes could…

  • Costly government

    I wrote yesterday about our heartless, penny-pinching government, which emphasises Getting To Surplus at all costs even if that means kids dying in cold state houses. This is the true…