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Talking the talk: how MPs' backgrounds inform debating style
7:35 AM.The House takes a look at how the backgrounds of three MPs informs the way they speak in Parliament. Read more Audio
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Democracy on the cheap: Skint Parliament to turn off the radio
7:00 AM.After years of trimming budgets and doing things on-the-cheap to make ends meet Parliament’s secretariat has hit the budget wall and plans to end radio broadcasts. It’s a symptom of MP's fear of… Read more Audio
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Urgency used to pass Bill fixing 501 deportees loophole
6:55 PM.Legislation has been passed under urgency to ensure all people returning to the country after being in prison systems abroad continue to come under parole-like oversight and support back in New… Read more Audio
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Entrenchment use under the grill in Standing Orders review
6:55 PM.The use of entrenchment in law-making in this country has had a sound grilling at the Standing Orders Committee which is conducting its ongoing regular review of Parliament’s rules. Read more Audio
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Cyclone devastation and climate dominate PM's Statement debate
8:05 PM.Today the debating chamber launched into action as it does most years - but this year was all about the weather and the climate. Read more Audio
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Parliament gets cracking proper with PM's Statement and disaster bills
6:55 PM.After a week of business in the House was lost due to Cyclone Gabrielle, Parliament’s sitting year properly gets underway today with Debate on the Prime Minister’s Statement. Read more Audio
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Short, cyclone-hit week starts Parliament 2023
6:55 PM.After a two-month break, Parliament resumed only to soon adjourn for the week as Cyclone Gabrielle complicated plans for the first sitting week in 2023. Read more Audio
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A year of disruption: Parliament's 2022 in review
7:35 AM.The last episode of The House for this year is an opportunity to look back at some of the goings-on in Parliament that we covered in 2022. Read more Audio
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The first guest on the floor
6:55 PM.It's been an unusual day at Parliament. President Zelensky became the first national leader to address the House, and then MPs travelled in time. At least on paper. Read more Audio
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Parliament’s week includes new bills and an historic speech
6:55 PM.It is Parliament’s final week but there are still bills sitting under the tree for MPs to debate, and some history to make with a Ukrainian President. Read more Audio
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Go high: Parliament takes its roof solar
7:35 AM.MPs often talk green, but Parliament is lowering its carbon footprint with hundreds of surreptitious solar panels; and providing a much wanted excuse to climb onto the roof. Read more Audio
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Focus on three Government bills in penultimate week
6:55 PM.Parliament’s year is rapidly nearing an end, and the Government has this week been focused on completion of three fairly major pieces of legislation. Read more Audio
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Parliament cancels a reservation: explaining 'entrenchment'
Parliament began its final sitting block of the year this week by cancelling a reservation it made two weeks ago. No, it wasn’t for a Christmas function. It was confusing, but we can help with that. Read more Audio
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Demystifying Parliament: MPs open up in Westport
7:35 AM.Five MPs travelled to Westport as part of a Parliamentary Outreach Programme aimed at connecting New Zealanders throughout the country with Parliament and its processes. Read more Audio
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Submitting to Parliament (but in a good way)
5:00 PM.Parliament Journalist Phil Smith has a crack at making a submission to MPs. Here is why you should bother, how you do it, how you really shouldn't, and how his went. Read more Audio
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A long week of Tuesdays and lots of bills
6:55 PM.In a week when Parliament sat under urgency, across four long Tuesdays, quite a lot of legislative business has been progressed. Read more Audio
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Niggly nights: testy exchanges in the House under urgency
6:55 PM.There’s been a distinct niggly energy about the exchanges in the House this week, and it’s got something to do with the fact Parliament is sitting under urgency. Read more Audio
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Parliament’s full-steam-ahead Christmas wind-down
6:55 PM.The holidays may be coming, but Parliament is winding up for looks likely to be its biggest week of the year. Read more Audio
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Parliament to sit under urgency this week
6:55 PM.Parliament is this week to sit under urgency as the Government seeks additional sitting hours to clear a backlog of legislation that it wants to progress. Read more Audio
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The Parliamentary Collection: an eclectic list
7:35 AM.“An incredibly diverse and eclectic collection”, the Parliamentary Collection has great art, black rods, protest bricks, bodily parts and much more. Read more Audio
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Overwhelming vote, meet Reserved Provision
6:55 PM.Parliament makes a rare step and amends a reserved provision of electoral law — something designed to be hard to achieve. Read more Audio
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MPs warned of ordeals ahead amid disinformation
6:55 PM.A former Prime Minister has warned MPs they face a daunting challenge to maintain public confidence in the Parliament system in the age of disinformation. Read more Audio
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Reimagining Parliament
7:35 AM.Every three years senior MPs meet to reimagine Parliament, considering which rule changes might strengthen representative democracy and executive oversight. Read more Audio
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A Members’ Day of two halves
6:55 PM.This week four backbencher bills got a shot at glory. Two were gloriously popular, one successful but contentious, and one pipped at the legislative post. Read more Audio
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Ex-military MPs vocal on Inspector General Bill
6:55 PM.MPs who are former members of the NZDF had plenty to say when the first reading of the Inspector-General Defence Bill got underway. Read more Audio