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The House today - Thursday 13 June 2019
13 Jun 2019More budget debate and a bill confirming the tax rates for next year are on the agenda for MPs at Parliament today.
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The House today - Wednesday 12 June 2019
12 Jun 2019MPs will skip some of the usual Wednesday features in the House to continue debating Budget 2019 today.
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More budget debate and next year's tax rates
11 Jun 2019Budget 2019 was announced at the end of last month but the debate isn't over in the House. Leader of the House Chris Hipkins explains why and what else will happen this week.
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The House today - Tuesday 11 June 2019
11 Jun 2019Each sitting day MPs work though a list of business. Today they'll work through more of the Budget Debate and tidy up some other bills.
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Parliament’s annual Committee Mega-Smash
9 Jun 2019Once a year ministers are grilled by House committees. It’s a budget gift to opposition MP’s dreaming of their big moment.
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‘I am Catholic, I am a Filipino, and a New Zealander’ Paulo Garcia’s maiden statement
3 Jun 2019New MPs get a special time slot to give their first speech in the house called a maiden statement. Here’re some highlights from National MP Paulo Garcia.
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Parliament's rainbow room refurbished
2 Jun 2019Parliament's rainbow select committee room has been redecorated ten years after it was first opened.
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How to be urgent at Parliament
31 May 2019The House is sitting under urgency to consider bills related to the Government's Budget 2019 announcement this week. Here's how urgency works.
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Robertson to Parliament: ‘Please can we have money?’
30 May 2019Wherefore art thou budget? Or possibly what's it all for anyway, and is it really new?
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More places, more times, fewer deaths
Expert says vaccinating pregnant mothers will save lives; and that immunisation rates will rise if getting a jab is easier.
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Rangatahi mental health workers 'fighting for funding'
29 May 2019Youth centered mental health workers say the wait for Government funding has turned them into competitors instead of collaborators write Sophie Dixon and Kate Aschoff.
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The House today: Wednesday 29 May 2019
29 May 2019Budget -1 and counting. Today a new MP gets his first crack. Here’s what the House will try to do today.
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Money for 30 months a year
28 May 2019In Budget week it seems suddenly everything’s about the money. That’s not true. Parliament’s focus on the money never seems to stop.
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The House today: Tuesday 28 May 2019
28 May 2019It’s budget week but before the big day on Thursday there are other things to work through. Here’s what the House will try to do today.
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The ‘right body’ - select committee hears petition on gender confirmation surgery
27 May 2019A petitioner asking for gender confirmation surgery for youth to be funded has appeared before a health committee.
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Committee roulette
23 May 2019Parliament is the forum for public debate, but you can’t wander into the debating chamber and join the MPs in random discussion. You can get pretty close though.
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Swearing in and bowing out
22 May 2019New MP Paulo Garcia was sworn in this week to replace former National MP Nuk Korako.
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The House today - Thursday 23 May 2019
23 May 2019Today MPs will work through an iwi settlement bill and some bills on earthquakes before breaking for the weekend.
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Nuk Korako says e noho rā
22 May 2019Nuk Korako didn’t plan to be a politician. And on becoming one later in life he was dropped in the deep end. He's now saying goodbye with huge plans ahead.
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Goodbye Gore, hello drugs and jobs
22 May 2019Wednesday in Parliament will include two hours of Gore with drugs and jobs as a chaser.
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This week in the House: zero carbon and last year's finances
21 May 2019MPs are back at Parliament after a week off and the first thing they'll tackle in the House is a bill on climate change.
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Zero carbon bill to have first reading
21 May 2019Each sitting day MPs debate various topics which are decided beforehand. Here's what they'll try to work through today.
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Parliament's chamber of secrets
19 May 2019The public aren't often allowed in the debating chamber but many have been in the second secret chamber without even realising. Phil Smith finds out how it works.
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The price of money
Last week the OCR dropped 25 basis points. What is the OCR, why does it matter, how’s the Government involved, and why weren’t the basis points better attached?
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