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Parliament's triennial warrant of fitness
Gerry Brownlee on "probably the most comprehensive" Standing Orders review since MMP began
Debates: finally complete, incomplete, and unwelcome
Pity the Committee: 48 meeting days, 55 laws
Eight bills cross the parliamentary finish Line thanks to urgency
Parliament exit interview: Andrew Bayly
NZ-India Free Trade legislation brings odd pairings
Cascade of lawmaking for Parliament’s penultimate week
Getting the last word: How MPs farewell Parliament
A contempt of privilege: Parliament’s Clerk explains
Greg O'Connor gives a bard's farewell to the House
Paulo Garcia : ‘Let hateful words be the undoing of those who wield them.’
MPs get brief reprieve from urgency trenches to farewell two colleagues
RMA week: a sane, slow respite from frantic politics
Dr Shane Reti farewells Parliament
MP Mark Cameron says goodbye from afar
What's Parliament getting urgent about this week?
House on Sunday: Duncan Webb exit interview
54 nurses: A grudging admission and the data on nurses
Government DNA inaction undermining prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Urgent debate or urgent farewell: MPs debate demotion of Chris Penk
Attorney General: Championing the rule of law
House on Sunday: potpourri of petitions and a briefing on bird flu
House on Sunday: Questions and excuses
Luxon and Peters: Which one are you today?
Misleading the House? Yes. Deliberately? Maybe
Responses and responsibility
Bird flu something we have to "learn to live with," experts tell MPs
Debating pet petitions
The women changing Pacific politics
House on Sunday: Parliament gets stuck back in after recess
Members day returns to the House
Refreshed MPs add new debates to business backlog
No rest for the Justice Committee during sitting break
What should a parliamentary budget office look like?
Leader of the House: Juggling a jigsaw puzzle
House on Sunday: Ministerial responsibility & key bills from a big week
23 Bills, 36 stages: Here are eight to note
Ten third readings: A lot of practice crossing the finish line
The 'not my circus, not my monkey' defence
Rare declaration debate precedes a week of urgency
House on Sunday: Misinforming MPs, and an election-free QT
Misleading Parliament: Do MPs set a bad example?
Parliament hears submissions on "Samaritan bill"
Parliament (and ministers) kept in dark
House on Sunday: the last scrutiny week of the 54th Parliament
Defending defence's budget
ACC & Worksafe: Legislation meets budget scrutiny
Boggling ROI on art funding and optional rules for broadcast
Financial scrutiny in an election year
Politics; starting them young
House on Sunday: Budget day and its aftermath
After the Budget, urgency
Budget Day: More performance than spreadsheet
Slavery and terminated subjects squeezed in around the edges
Document handling debate distracts from Budget Week beginnings
The House on Sunday: Chamber blowback & biscuit tin tactics
The politics behind government backbenchers’ members’ bills
Chamber blowback: The third law of political motion
House on Sunday: farewells and funding
The constitutional shift you may have missed this week
Labour and National find common ground on online harm
'Practical change’ or ‘paradigm shift’? MPs debate conservation reform
House on Sunday: Learning on the ministerial job
The House on Sunday: Anti-slavery law uses new rule to bypass ballot
MPs probe BSA’s role in the digital era
New prisoner segregation rules get ‘dignity, not sympathy’ response from MPs
Question Time begins with a showdown between a Minister and..... a Minister?
House on Sunday: Party politics spills over into the House throughout the week
The General Debate: Open mic night at Parliament
Ministers brought back on task for Annual Review debate
Responsibility and porkies: When party politics bleeds into Parliament
The Victorian Parliament: Amid slum, disease, fire and illegal demolition
Citizens assemblies: an alternative to select committees?
The House on Sunday: Fish fights and satire rights
MPs debate taking the Mickey
Auckland housing law passes under urgency, after a freewheeling committee
Urgency, but first... fishing
The House of Sunday: MPs debate both local and global issues
Immigration changes to both protect migrants and also ease deporting them
MPs Lament greyhound Ban but still vote for it
MPs debate an apparent offer to assist in the Strait of Hormuz
What to expect when you’re expecting an election
The House on Sunday: Long term debates and departing reflections
Henare asks MPs to rebuild trust in Parliament
MPs debate the long term, but even a week is a long time in politics
MPs debate lessons learned from the pandemic
House on Sunday: Submission advice, and politics in infrastructure
Removing politics from infrastructure, with a little politics
MPs put public service integrity under the microscope
Helping stop bad law
Written Questions: A less frustrating Question Time?
House on Sunday: Maiden speeches and memorable speeches
Parliament's late comer makes maiden statement
Turning back time through law
Bishop and McAnulty speeches among the standouts
DEI and Employment Relations: The week's contentious bills
Employment relations and full speed, one-sided debates
Public Service Amendment Bill reignites DEI debate in the House
Question Time - the election year edition