Stephanie Cullen

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | Astrid Young |Nick Rockel |Stephanie Cullen |David Farrier

Last night I couldn’t find the Green Party video from yesterday’s Green Budget announcement, which might be a good thing because I ended up watching the BHN episode where Pat and Chewie talk with Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson (video below). I’ve been increasingly finding my eyes glazing over at much of the Greens’ speechifying. Their policies still look good, but somehow the rhetoric hasn’t been landing for me personally.

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | Astrid Young |Nick Rockel |Stephanie Cullen |David Farrier

Reprinted with permissionIt’s not often I find myself needing to respond to a sitting Minister of Finance. But when Nicola Willis dismisses decades of feminist struggle for gender pay equity as “a grievance industry” and calls a journalist’s pointed social commentary “sexist slurs,” it becomes clear we’re not dealing with a reasoned policy debate. We’re witnessing a deliberate, ideologically motivated reframing of fairness as fiscal burden—and that’s something I cannot stay silent about.

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | Bernard Hickey |Stephanie Cullen |Angela Suriyasenee |Linus Cohen

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | Joe Keary |Nick Rockel |David Slack |Stephanie Cullen