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The Finance Minister Grant Robertson has announced the Government's spending plan for the next financial year. Here's how it played out in the House.

There is a lot of talk about the Government's Budget 2018 so we've written a made-up diary of the Minister for Finance to explain what's going on.

Each sitting day in the House MPs work their way through business which is set out on the order paper. Here's what they plan to get through this week.

A select committee has heard about families cooking on BBQs rather than risk a rent increase if the landlord fixes the oven at a hearing on the Child Poverty Reduction Bill. 

New Zealand Sign Language interpreters will be a permanent fixture at question time but how will they deal with Parliament’s strange language?

Each sitting day in the House MPs work their way through business which is set out on the order paper. Here's what they plan to get through this week.

Non-Government MPs can get bills through the House but need a little bit of luck to do so.

New National MP Nicola Willis has given her maiden statement in the House outlining her values and goals.

Each sitting day in the House MPs work their way through business which is set out on the order paper. Here's what they plan to get through this week.

The Minister for Justice has asked the Law Commission for advice on changing abortion law but what do the Commissioners have to do?

Pacific politicians are in New Zealand to learn and share techniques for running parliaments including representatives from a Parliament that's just 10 years old. 

Each sitting day in the House MPs work their way through business which is set out on the order paper. Here's what they plan to get through this week.

The House takes a look back at the work MPs did in the House including expunging convictions, banning letting fee charges to tenants and changing super requirements in the Cook Islands, Niue, and…

Imagine having your spending for the past year publicly scrutinised. MPs are checking government spending over the past financial year in a ten hour long debate called the annual review debate.

Each sitting day in the House MPs work their way through business which is set out on the order paper. Here's what they plan to get through this week.

Policy, public outcry, or natural disasters can prompt a law change but sometimes the push for change comes from the humble select committee. 

Asking a zinger of a question in the House can earn an MP much kudos but how far can MPs push the rules to land a political punch?

Each sitting day in the House MPs work their way through business which is set out on the order paper. Here's what they plan to get through this week.

The political year picks up energy with a tit-for-tat and we look at who is and isn't honourable.  

Each sitting day in the House MPs work their way through business which is set out on the order paper. Here's what they plan to get through this week.

A petition calling for an inquiry into New Zealand's role in the death of six people in Afghanistan has been handed over. The House looks at the rules for petitioning Parliament and its new e-Petition…

More than $75 billion in tax revenue was collected in the last financial year but who keeps tabs on whether the money is well spent? The House takes a look at annual reviews.

Bills to limit state sector CEO salaries, close the Families Commission, and criminalise cartels have their first readings before the House while major education changes move to select committee.

People smugglers will use any opportunity to get more 'bums on boats' a select committee has been told.

The Prime Minister has made a ministerial statement to update the House on support for Pacific countries affected by Tropical Cyclone Gita.