31 Aug 2021

Many empty seats in socially-distanced Parliament

From Checkpoint, 6:24 pm on 31 August 2021

A slimmed-down and socially-distanced Parliament has begun sitting in person today - for the first time under alert level 4.

Labour wanted Parliament to sit virtually instead, but both National and ACT have insisted on a physical gathering.

Here's our deputy political editor Craig McCulloch.