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Inside the Chief of Staff role: The House chats with Kevin Hague
"I just wanted to leave quietly." Former Speaker Adrian Rurawhe farewells Parliament
Parliament’s first week a warm-up to the election
Parliament begins the year in lament, before debate
Adjournment debate: It's déjà vu all over again
On their final day MPs consider quality of our final years
MPs on Bondi attack: Theme and variations
Parliament gets urgent on voting rules and climate targets
Penultimate week of the year begins with RMA shakeup
Parliament’s gentle pre-Christmas slowdown anything but gentle
Scrutiny Week: Politics, oversight and attention
Number crunching continues amid high profile scrutiny squabbles
Scrutiny Week: A cascade of diminishing attention
Scrutiny week kicks off with high profile issues dominating exchanges
Urgency ends early after voting gaffe
Parliament's penultimate sitting block brings long nights in the House
Voting process slows but doesn't stop bills under urgency
Clean vehicle bill passed under urgency
MPs debate the details under urgency
13 bills get urgency treatment in penultimate sitting block of 2025
Loophole results in 11 day submission period for fast track amendments
Government completes four bills in a week of political sideshows
The House: Parliament reacts to the Jevon McSkimming scandal
Question time directs rare question to non-Ministerial MP
Introducing: Politics NZ
From combative words to first words as new MP gives maiden statement
A former PM weighs in on Parliament's rules
Redress, apologies, and pardons as MPs work on three Treaty settlement bills
Regulatory Standards Bill back in the House after a highly engaged public submission period.
Behind the scenes at the MP’s library
House on Sunday: A power debate, Standing Orders tinkering, and a election date?
Parliament delivers two heralds of the 2026 election
A question of intent: Takutai Moana Bill passes third reading
It's called Question Time, not Answer Time
Moe mai rā, Mr Bolger: MPs Lament the death of the "great helmsman"
MPs hear submissions on Public Service Bill
Sometimes Parliament needs plot summaries
'A product of Māori resilience': Oriini Kaipara's maiden statement
MPs hash out the details of abuse in state care legislation
Good MPs make great quiz team members
Groundhog Day as Peter’s delivers third Ministerial Statement on Gaza
The third branch: Parliament's relationship with the courts
Inside the Beehive’s emergency command bunker
Government gets urgent on adoption
MPs celebrate Māori language week by arguing in te reo
Government passes adoption bill under urgency
Moves from the Question Time playbook
Politics vs Governance: The Budget finale
The four month journey to budget approval
Parliament’s workload and pace squeezing out committees
The House on Sunday: Parliament's local MP
A Tikanga for Parliament
The House on Sunday: slow government lawmaking and suggestions of lying
Lies, damn lies and parliamentary debate
Opposition backbench passes more bills than National backbench
Parliament this week: ETS reform, stalking, and spying
Spine and Punishment: A review of Swarbrick v Brownlee
Political distractions dominate while the House chips away at lawmaking
More rates and more debt: MPs hear from Auditor General on Local Councils
Palestine: Divining a position from a lack of answers
Parliament’s cross-partisan powerhouse and the new law that undermines it
House on Sunday: Electoral enrolment changes, & 'Unimportant' bills
Parliament's 'rats and mice'
Opposition drills into Crown Minerals Bill
Speaker nods towards large changes to Question Time
House on Sunday: EU MPs and a maiden statement
European MPs at Parliament
Space, spies, stalking, and extra sittings
Peters navigates opposition questions on Gaza
Are our politicians 'free to lead'
Parliament versus Executive: Regs Review and the Regulatory Standards Bill
MPs check in with Parliament's boss
New sitting block, new bills
"We are watching, we are rising, we will not be silenced": Youth Parliament 2025
Making law: A final avalanche of edits
House on Sunday: Debating war, mourning death
MPs pay tribute to Takutai Tarsh Kemp
Bills under urgency
Situation in the Middle East: Parliament reacts
The House on Sunday: Xu-Nan on scrutiny, and bear pit tactics
Tactics from the scrutiny bear pit
Peters holds court at foreign affairs scrutiny hearing
Lawrence Xu-Nan: Prepping for scrutiny week
The House: Morning Tea with Matt Doocey
The House: A sentencing hearing in Parliament
Two out of three: Parliament's week
Health Committee hear submissions on Medicines Amendment Bill
Pint of Order! Parliament and Alcohol
Categories and strategy: The path of Parliament's members' bills
MPs knuckle down for marathon budget urgency
Words and Numbers: Budget Day in the House
What to expect when you're expecting a Budget: The House chats with James Picker
Surprise adjournment cuts short haka punishment debate
Sir Anand Satyanand: "The Governor General is deep in the DNA of Parliament”
Decoding the Speaker’s reaction to the Privileges Committee report
Auditor-General tells MPs Treaty settlement commitments aren't being met by public organisations
MPs debate abuse in state care redress system
House on Sunday: Parliament debates pay equity claims and farewells a Labour stalwart
Labour's 'conviction politician' farewells Parliament
The Equal Pay Amendment Bill debate: Fast and furious