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7:30 AM.Opposition taunts government over light legislative workload. Steven Joyce denies reports of a split in National's caucus over the Health and Safety Reform Bill. John Key attacks Andrew Little over… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Reports of divisions among National MPs over workplace health and safety bill are probed by Opposition members; Choice of providers to replace Relationships Aotearoa are defended by Anne Tolley… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.Reports of divisions among National MPs over workplace health and safety bill are probed by Opposition members; Choice of providers to replace Relationships Aotearoa are defended by Anne Tolley… Read more Audio

6:52 PM.Opposition probes reports of divisions among National MPs over workplace health and safety bill; Anne Tolley defends choice of providers to replace Relationships Aotearoa; Commerce Committee looks at… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Foreign Minister blames Labour for messing up live sheep exports to Saudi Arabia but denies paying a bribe to avoid multi-million dollar court action; Questions on Housing; Briefing on… Read more Audio

6:54 PM.Foreign Minister blames Labour for messing up live sheep exports to Saudi Arabia but denies paying a bribe to avoid multi-million dollar court action; Questions on Housing; Budget Debate resumes. Audio

5:46 AM.Requests for urgent debates declined; Budget Debate continues; John Key uses Question Time to criticise Andrew Little for talking about means testing for pension payments; Speaker sends Winston Peters… Read more Audio

6:49 PM.John Key uses Question Time to bash Opposition leader, Andrew Little, over the head for talking about means testing of old age pension payments; Speaker sends Winston Peters packing; Stoush over… Read more Audio

7:31 AM.Budget Week staggers on towards the weekend after Government puts the House under urgency to pass four bills implementing Budget measures through all their stages. Opposition filibuster slows social… Read more Audio

6:30 PM.House sits under urgency as the Opposition slows progress on the government's bills with a filibuster. Audio

5:45 AM.Bill English delivers his seventh Budget. Andrew Little launches Budget Debate with traditional no confidence amendment. John Key launches personal attack on Andrew Little. Winston Peters sees red but… Read more Audio

6:53 PM.Bill English delivers his seventh Budget. Andrew Little launches Budget Debate with traditional no confidence amendment. John Key launches personal attack on Andrew Little. Winston Peters sees red but… Read more Audio

5:47 AM.Budget Day dawns, freeing Ministers from the bonds of secrecy preventing them from answering any opposition questions that might cause embarrassment. Labour's Grant Robertson is thrown out for… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.One more big sleep before Budget Day when all will be revealed; Ministers invoke the need for secrecy to frustrate opposition attempts to obtain answers to questions even vaguely related to the… Read more Audio

5:47 AM.Prime Minister John Key quizzed on the government's tightened tax
regime for residential property investors. Finance Minister Bill
English coy on contents of his seventh Budget, to be presented on
… Read more Audio

6:51 PM.Prime Minister John Key quizzed on the government's tightened tax regime for residential property investors. Finance Minister Bill English coy on contents of his seventh Budget, to be presented on… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler and his deputy, Grant Spencer, brief the Finance and Expenditure committee on the risks to financial stability from the Auckland housing market and falling dairy… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.John Key and Andrew Little go head to head; Questions and Snap debate on Whanau Ora; Nanaia Mahuta pays tribute to Erima Henare; NZ First's Ria Bond gives maiden speech; David Wilson appointed as new… Read more Audio

4:30 PM.Nanaia Mahuta pays tribute to Ngati Hine leader Erima Henare; Winston Peters makes submission on the Flag Referendum Bill to Justice and Electoral Committee; Trevor Mallard presents his petition on… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.Nanaia Mahuta pays tribute to Ngati Hine leader Erima Henare; Winston Peters makes submission on the Flag Referendum Bill to Justice and Electoral Committee; Trevor Mallard presents his petition on… Read more Audio

6:53 PM.Winston Peters makes submission on the Flag Referendum Bill to Justice and Electoral Committee; Trevor Mallard presents his petition on that Bill to the same committee; Te Ururoa Flavell fields… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.NZ First's Ria Bond gives maiden speech; Law and Order Committee hears submissions on the Drug and Alcohol Testing of Community-based Offenders and Bailees Legislation Bill; John Key questioned on… Read more Audio

6:53 PM.Speaker grants and Urgent Debate on a recent Auditor-General's report on Whanau Ora; Law and Order Committee hears submissions on the Drug and Alcohol Testing of Community-based Offenders and Bailees… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Animal Welfare Amendment Bill passes its final reading after two years of parliamentary scrutiny; MPs express congratulations on birth of royal baby; PM faces questions about "ponytail gate" from… Read more Audio

6:51 PM.MPs express congratulations on birth of royal baby; PM faces questions about "ponytail gate" from Andrew Little. Questions also for Bill English on housing from Green MP Kevin Hague. Audio