The House On Demand
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The 'far reaching tentacles' of child poverty
13 May 2018A 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. Audio
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Jumping the waka without sinking the ship
11 May 2018The 'waka jumping' bill has raises a practical balancing act between electoral integrity and parliamentary privilege. Audio
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Talking between worlds - sign language at Parliament
10 May 2018New Zealand Sign Language interpreters will be a permanent fixture at question time but how will they deal with Parliament’s strange language? Video, Audio
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Front loading at oral questions
10 May 2018In Parliament’s Oral Question the Opposition took a lead from the All Black’s Sam Whitelock and tried Front Loading as a tactic Audio
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Parliament’s to do list: Pacific free trade, social security, and weapons brokering (again)
8 May 2018Each 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. Audio
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Is one dead cat still contempt?
Contempt isn’t only hard to pronounce, it’s tricky legally. But Parliament is now coalescing, clarifying and modernising it. A makeover for disdain, if you will. Audio
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A little bit of luck
4 May 2018Non-Government MPs can get bills through the House but need a little bit of luck to do so. Audio
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Late to the party: National MP Nicola Willis' maiden statement
3 May 2018New National MP Nicola Willis has given her maiden statement in the House outlining her values and goals. Audio
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Parliament’s to do list: spending wrap-up, first words, and weapons brokering
1 May 2018Each 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. Audio
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A cupboardful of nations: Parliament's flags
29 Apr 2018You never know when you might need an extra Sudan or Bermuda tucked away. We found a cupboardful at Parliament. Of flags that is. No Jolly Roger though. Audio
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Commissioning changes
22 Apr 2018The Minister for Justice has asked the Law Commission for advice on changing abortion law but what do the Commissioners have to do? Audio
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UK politicians visit NZ
15 Apr 2018In a week with dozens of visiting MPs, The House spoke with UK and Pacific Island politicians. Audio
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Parliament's powers and privileges are surprisingly wide
13 Apr 2018RNZ's chair has declined to give a voicemail to a Select Committee. The House looks at Parliament's ability to demand such things and punish those who refuse. Audio
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Aiming a scattergun
11 Apr 2018Sometimes Oral Questions in Parliament are a incisive scalpel, cutting to the truth with surgical precision. Sometimes they're a blunderbuss, firing wildly in the hope of finding a chink in the… Audio
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Parliament’s to do list: more spending, farewell Coleman, and privacy online
10 Apr 2018Each 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. Audio
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A look back: clearing records, letting fees, tropical retirement
8 Apr 2018The 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… Audio
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Where'd the money go?
6 Apr 2018Imagine 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. Audio
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Letting fee ban underway at Parliament
A bill banning letting fees has passed its first hurdle in Parliament after a fractured debate. Audio
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Parliament's to do list: spending checks and clean slates
3 Apr 2018Each 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. Audio
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Managing tūpāpaku: accessing the dead
1 Apr 2018Policy, public outcry, or natural disasters can prompt a law change but sometimes the push for change comes from the humble select committee. Audio
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3-D grammatical chess
30 Mar 2018Ministers sometimes refer to themselves in the third person - and it's not solipsism, it's required. Audio
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Only so much leeway
29 Mar 2018General Debates are as 'free-for-all' as Parliament's debating chamber gets - but there are still rules. Audio
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A matter of responsibility
28 Mar 2018Asking 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? Video, Audio
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Parliament’s to do list: prison tattoos, homosexual offences, and OMG blasphemy
27 Mar 2018Each 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. Audio
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New National front bench tests its mettle
25 Mar 2018The House takes a look back at a week's worth of Question Time when the new opposition front bench got to try out its first jabs at the government. Audio
