Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: voting

  • 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…

  • Getting the flag we want

    I admit I’m a latecomer on the Red Peak bandwagon. It’s not Red Peak’s fault. It’s a fine flag. https://twitter.com/AJemaineClement/status/639928979210670080 One funny little irony is that the anti-Red Peak criticism…

  • Political resistance is the opposite of gerrymandering

    A slightly odd headline at the Herald this morning: Revealed: Plots to gerrymander flag referendum Four shortlisted flag designs will be put to the vote in November but plots to…

  • The coat-tail rule and democracy

    Allow me to fly in the face of an accepted truth in NZ politics by saying this: there is absolutely nothing undemocratic about the MMP “coat-tail” rules. This has quickly…