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The vanishing fallacy: The tactics of Question Time
6:55 PM.Question Time is a contest where the tactics constantly evolve, and counter tactics shift to respond. This week one clever tactic appeared suddenly to disappear. Read more Audio
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Back to font: Parliament as the source of cash and power
6:55 PM.This week's reduction for Road User Charges shows Parliament is always the source of power and of cash. Read more Audio
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Managing MPs - the ‘staff’ you can’t fire
7:35 AM.Parliament’s Speaker is on a mission to stop workplace bullying and improve behaviour, even that of the ‘staff’ who can’t be fired. Read more Audio
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Lessons from Christchurch inform Earthquake Commission transition
6:55 PM.A new Bill looks to make life easier for people affected by major disasters, following the human disaster created by shortcomings of the Earthquake Commission in its response to the Christchurch… Read more Audio
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Parliament’s second spring: a public return
6:55 PM.Parliament has reworked its traffic light settings and the public are returning to the precinct, including school visits, public events, tours and public galleries in the debating chamber. Read more Audio
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Decoding the names of bills
6:55 PM.A bill by any other name (would be utterly confusing). We decode the naming rules for Parliament’s bills and laws. Read more Audio
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Bill seeks streamlined path through surrogacy process
7:35 AM.Surrogacy arrangements can often be difficult legal and health processes to navigate for intending parents and surrogates. A new Member’s Bill is looking to make it a smoother process that enhances… Read more Audio
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Dating Parliament’s Speaker, and the ‘chair of doom’
7:30 AM.The unintended consequences of one MP's early retirement with a bad day for the MP, who in the subsequent reshuffle, is allocated the debating chamber's 'Chair of Doom'. Read more Audio
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Iwi lead panacea process as Parliament grounds reopen
6:55 PM.The community is welcomed back into Parliament's grounds, the next step in the transition back from stinky rubbish tip to a place for picnics, petitions, play and protest. Read more Audio
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More work needed on hate speech, as Parliament marks mosque attacks anniversary
6:55 PM.A motion in Parliament to mark the third anniversary of the Christchurch mosque terror attacks found MPs reflecting on how there is still work to do to counter extremism and hate speech. Read more Audio
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Russia Sanctions - an explainer
7:35 AM.On Wednesday Parliament unanimously passed a law allowing sanctions in relation to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Here's how it works. Read more Audio
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Avoiding disinformation on law with explanations
6:55 PM.When weird claims are made about bills and laws, where can you check the truth if you don’t have a degree in the arcana of legal drafting? Read more Audio
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Skirmish tests notion of honourable MPs
6:55 PM.The notion that MPs are people of honour who must be taken at their word was briefly tested in a skirmish which resulted in the first ejection of an MP from the chamber this year. Read more Audio
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The law writing speeds: glacier, snail or rocket
6:55 PM.Creating new laws takes years, except when it happens at break-neck pace. This week Parliament will consider a Russia Sanctions Bill under urgency. Necessity means it was also written under urgency.
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Sound and vision: hybrid parliament begins amid unrest
7:35 AM.This week, not only did MPs have to contend with a riot on their front lawn, they also had to come to grips with a new hybrid parliament in which some members participated by Zoom. Read more Audio
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'This too will pass': MPs give thanks and point a few fingers
4:35 PM.Parliament’s precinct is being spring-cleaned and returned to order and the MPs are full of thanks, and a little causative finger pointing. Read more Audio
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Drug driving law not just about illegal substances
6:55 PM.Parliament has passed a law to establish a roadside oral fluid testing regime to test for recent drug use, and proposes that drivers who fail two consecutive oral fluid tests would incur an… Read more Audio
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Condemnation of Russian invasion of Ukraine kicks off Parliament week
6:55 PM.This week in the House began with a motion in support of Ukraine and it will end with a special debate on a bill not even yet introduced. Chris Hipkins explains some of the parliamentary week's… Read more Audio
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Parliament comes together to address an injustice
7:35 AM.Paige Harris never met her mother. She wasn’t even on her birth certificate. Parliament is passing a law to fix that injustice - just for Paige. Read more Audio
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The Hybrid Chamber: Parliament on Covid
7:30 AM.It may sound like something from Hammer House of Horror but The Hybrid Chamber is a plan for Parliament to go semi-virtual when MPs go down with Covid. Read more Audio
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A week of Question Time: costs, cash and a little covid
6:55 PM.A week of questions in Parliament: Some opposition go with 'show me the money' and some with 'defend the covid rules'. Read more Audio
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Abortion Safe Areas - a rights balancing act
6:55 PM.In the latest from The House, MPs strike a balance in shaping legislation to enable Abortion Safe Areas. Read more Audio
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A Parliament with no MPs
6:55 PM.Like ‘a pub with no beer’, a Parliament almost empty of MPs is an odd thought. But it seems likely in the near future. Read more Audio
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False starts and long debates at Parliament
7:30 AM.A week of the House included a near miss by Chris Luxon, a lot of debate over a confidence motion and near completion for a bill to ban attempts to 'convert' gender and sexual orientations. Read more Audio
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Firearms prohibition orders take the first step
6:55 PM.A Government bill to ban those deemed dangerous from coming anywhere near guns has had a successful first reading in Parliament. Read more Audio