The House

Parliament's penultimate sitting block brings long nights in the House

Parliament's penultimate sitting block brings long nights in the House

Voting process slows but doesn't stop bills 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