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Long game: activism at Parliament
23 Apr 2023Their work is usually unpaid and sometimes overlooked, but activists play an important long-term role in the parliament system. Four veterans open up on their experiences at parliament.
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Behind the scenes of Cabinet
16 Apr 2023Rachel Hayward has two overlapping jobs, ‘organising’ both Cabinet and the Executive Council. Those twin roles are an also a great insight into how government works at the very highest level.
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Jacinda Ardern: Text and Photos - full valedictory
Prime Minister’s farewell speeches are rare events. We have photos, video and the full transcript of Jacinda Ardern’s valedictory address.
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Booze bill blocked in conscience vote
6 Apr 2023Legislation on alcohol went to a conscience vote this week, and the result was a reminder how some parties still tend to vote as a group on such issues.
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The annual review debate: the butt-end of the budget
5 Apr 2023In a busy week of Parliament one of the most crucial things MPs did may have got the least attention. Financial scrutiny is seldom exciting but it is important.
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Exits, entries and grog: the week in Parliament
4 Apr 2023Parliament's week includes a mix of debate on a key police scrutiny role, annual reviews and two bills about booze, as well as the farewell speech from a familiar face.
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Eight new bills for Parliament’s final months
2 Apr 2023Despite a week of distractions MPs were working. Hard. Ten bills were finished, and eight brand new bills began their lives, ready for the remaining weeks of this parliamentary term.
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Little boxes: MPs and their offices
31 Mar 2023The House visited two MPs with very different job descriptions to see the shape and function of both their offices and their staffing arrangements.
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Ten bills passed this week in Parliament
30 Mar 2023Parliament spent extra hours this week churning through quite a long list of proposed legislation, with ten bills completing their third and final readings.
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Extra scrutiny for Immigration
29 Mar 2023Question Time gets all the media attention, but it is only the tip of the scrutiny-iceberg. The action is below the waterline - in committee, where most of Parliament’s scrutiny of Government happens.
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Lawmakers’ election-year alarm clock
28 Mar 2023This week Parliament changes gears to kick start a bevy of proposed laws. It’s another sign the election is not far away.
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Enabling lawmaking on the fly
28 Mar 2023Parliament can grant powers to certain authorities to make new rules without having to go through the normal lengthy legislative process.
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Keeping the flow: the use of te reo at Parliament
26 Mar 2023An increased appetite to learn Te reo Māori among different parts of the Parliament system means the work of the Māori Language Service is in demand more than ever.
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The ominously named Shadow Leader
19 Mar 2023Parliament has a charming tendency to gift people with very odd job titles, like Shadow Leader of the House. Michael Woodhouse outlines what the job entails (and it's neither shade nor homes).
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Political pile-on or Parliament as designed?
16 Mar 2023This week MPs discussed Stuart Nash’s loss of a ministerial warrant for an hour. It may have looked like a political pile-on, but in reality it was Parliament doing exactly what it is designed for –…
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'Fairly busy': National Emergency Management Agency at committee
15 Mar 2023Response to recent climate disasters was the focus as the National Emergency Management Agency appeared before the Governance and Administration Committee for its annual review.
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Parliament may fast-track cyclone law without urgency
14 Mar 2023Parliament this week may agree to act speedily on a cyclone response bill, rather than invoke urgency. Doing so will allow some select committee time on the issue, and even a Member's Day.
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Tabling and other Parliamentage
12 Mar 2023This week’s weekend feature story for The House compiles highlights from through Parliament’s sitting week.
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Unpacked: seeking leave to table a document
9 Mar 2023It’s a common occurrence in the House for opposition MPs to ask to “seek leave to table a document”, but have you wondered what this really means?
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Hamilton West MP honours tūpuna in maiden statement
8 Mar 2023Maiden Statements are usually the public’s first and sometimes best chance to learn about an MP's motivations and politics, and new Hamilton West MP Tama Potaka's was no exception.
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The non-legislative week in the House
7 Mar 2023In Parliament this week there are three things happening that have nothing to do with passing legislation. Leader of the House Grant Robertson explains them to the House.
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Talking the talk: how MPs' backgrounds inform debating style
5 Mar 2023The House takes a look at how the backgrounds of three MPs informs the way they speak in Parliament.
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Democracy on the cheap: Skint Parliament to turn off the radio
26 Feb 2023After years of trimming budgets and doing things on-the-cheap to make ends meet Parliament’s secretariat has hit the budget wall and plans to end radio broadcasts. It’s a symptom of MP's fear of…
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Urgency used to pass Bill fixing 501 deportees loophole
23 Feb 2023Legislation has been passed under urgency to ensure all people returning to the country after being in prison systems abroad continue to come under parole-like oversight and support back in New…
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