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A tardy memorium for Francis
Cabinet-lite: Louise Upston sheds light on the Government's Cabinet Committees
Democratic guardrails: Is NZ safe from authoritarianism?
The watchdog that listens: Peter Boshier reflects on nine years as Ombudsman
House on Sunday: A scavenger hunt, a Treaty bill, and an annual health check
The unusual death of the Treaty bill
Verrall and Brown go tit-for-tat in health annual review debate
A Question Time Scavenger Hunt
Behind the door at a parliamentary privilege hearing
The parliamentary background to the 'missing submissions' story
Gene Technology Bill: The public have their say
Threats without consequences: Parliament’s “school-yard stupidity” classroom
Parliament Bill arrives back in the House
Do we need a Parliamentary Budget Office?
Urgency giveth, and urgency taketh away
A week of urgent plod sprinkled with chaos
Climate change adaptation: Parliament asks the small questions
Budget debate lite: MPs debate Budget Policy Statement
Fictional fiscal cliffs – misinterpreting budgets for political gain
First dose of urgency for the year fixes legal issue
Four more years? MPs get first chance to debate parliamentary term length bill
New bill gives green light to congestion charging
Urgent debate on Bayly resignation
The Changing Sound of Politics: The voices of past PMs
MPs, the public, and media get rare glimpse into intelligence community
It's complicated: Debating justice
"We have generations of fix-it culture": Marama Davidson on her 'Right to Repair' members bill
The Prosecution of Stupid, and The Growth Debate
The Themes and Stylings of a 13-Hour Debate
"Mental health is about lived experience" Minister tells MPs
Rules and punishments for MPs
The Summer of 300,000 submissions
The Maunga owns itself
New Year Resolutions: Parliament Style
Parliament begins with farewells
The last shout: Parliament's chaotic finale
Parliament fits an extra morning into final sitting day
Podcast Extra: Debating a ruling
Labour moves Speaker from the 'nice' to 'naughty' list
The House on Sunday: Blitz week and a crammed committee
New bills for public feedback among end of year blitz
Parliament on the home stretch, but first: a 30 hour sitting week
Tough Justice - How to drown a committee
Pacific presiders: Parliament hosts pacific speakers and clerks conference.
Quizzing, interrogation, and grilling: scrutiny week in review
"RMA reform and land supply fundamental." Housing Minister tells MPs.
"Out there with our tails up." Defence minister defends defence.
Scrutiny week - peek-a-boo reporting in Health
Boosting Scrutiny Week: “Sometimes, for billions of dollars, you’d have a half-hour hearing.”
"To love is to move towards freedom" - Parliament's newest member makes their maiden statement
Meanwhile, passing law in the House
The little Members Bill that could: Restoring Citizenship Bill passes third reading
Noise and passion: Mostly outside the chamber
Press Gallery 101: The House chats with Jason Walls
Snubbing ACT, shaming National: a week of the Treaty bill
The House: It’s all politics
Responding to Abuse in Care Bill: Major parties put politics aside, minor parties not so much
The teen and the veteran: Parliament Bill Committee hears from the public
Fighting the Wind to Fly the Flag
Harmony and discord: Parliament’s inconstant chamber
Early jabs in a new bout: The first Question Time in a new sitting block
Parliament Library became haunted house for Halloween
Returning Samoan citizenship & a request to add to Te Tiriti
"It's good to be on the right side of history": Restoring Citizenship Bill passes second reading
Government passes RMA reform bill on freshwater
Gazetted: Banning petards and being hoist on them
Petard hoisting, petard banning
Political messaging: top down, bottom up
"A decent conversation": the art of the Ministerial statement
The submitters, and you.
Sinking of the HMNZS Manawanui: Parliament reacts
Speaker’s little helpers: Parliament’s other presiding officers
Vetting Parliament's Questions
Parliament considers a bill about... itself
Parliament gets urgent on sentencing, mining, and charter schools
Taking the funding of Parliament off governments
"Arcane but really important": Parliament Bill gets special committee
Opposition forcing long debates on short committees
Wā Pātai: Māori language week at Parliament
MPs rediscover a filibustering tactic
Budget 2024: Light at the end of the tunnel
Leading in opposition & building an alternative government
Parsing Question Time answers
Parliament honours Kiingi Tuheitia
CYP 12 - 60 MPs, 60 accents, 100 opinions
Rising costs and rising seas: Parliament’s climate adaptation inquiry
Petitioner reveals NZ First's original fast track bill, with hidden projects
Stop the questions: a coach steps in to end the fight
From Beehive to Bluegrass: Kiwi MPs head stateside
How not to answer a question, and other lessons from Parliament
Water, coastlines, and corrections: Parliament’s committee stage this week
Kumbayah, now take that!
Being Māori at Parliament
Taking their word for it: Lying and MPs
Water cooler chat: Parliament’s General Debate
Let your vocal chords do the walking
What on earth is that noise: Parliament's bell keepers.
National tries for message discipline, ACT not so much
Like a student flat, parliament runs on rosters
MPs get primetime with state owned media