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Parliament to regulate wheel clampers, loan sharks, and firearms
9 Apr 2019It's full steam ahead on gun law reform today but MPs will also consider bills capping wheel clamp fees and tightening rules for money lenders.
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How Parliament is fast tracking gun law reform
7 Apr 2019A weighty piece of legislation to reform firearms is being pushed through Parliament, here's how that process has been sped up so far.
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Has political peace broken out?
4 Apr 2019The unified grief since the attacks, and near unanimity in the political response might make you think that political peace has broken out. So has it?
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Parliament's to do list: Thursday 4 April 2019
4 Apr 2019The shortest sitting day of the Parliamentary week still has three bills on the list to work through.
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Bill to encourage more organ donations
3 Apr 2019A bill aimed at increasing organ donations by adjusting compensation and setting up an organ donor agency has passed its first reading in the House.
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Parliament's To Do List: a delayed members day
3 Apr 2019Wednesdays are a bit different at Parliament, and Wednesday this week is a week late (eat your heart out Dr Who).
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Pushing gun laws through Parliament
2 Apr 2019The Leader of the House Chris Hipkins tells The House how firearms legislation can be processed more quickly by Parliament.
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Parliament to consider firearms ban and national organ donation service
2 Apr 2019A firearms ban, more organ donations, and treating 17-year-olds as youths in the justice system are on the cards for the House when it sits at 2pm today.
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Touring the hallowed halls
31 Mar 2019Join a tour of the hallowed halls of
HogwartsParliament. No other tour gets to mix art and architecture with constitution.
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How Parliament reacted to the Christchurch terror attacks
24 Mar 2019No question time, an early adjournment and a prayer delivered by a guest were some of the changes to Parliament this week in the wake of the Christchurch terror attacks.
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Praying with 'strangers' in Parliament
19 Mar 2019Parliament’s Speaker, Trevor Mallard has broken more than a century of tradition to demonstrate unity by inviting leaders of faith communities into the House to pray.
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A brief and sober House - Parliament after the shootings
When Parliament resumes on Tuesday it will be in a sombre mood. And the focus of a shortened week will be the Christchurch attacks.
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Parliament marks mosque terror attacks
19 Mar 2019One task is on the House's agenda today in the wake of the mosque terror attacks in Christchurch.
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Petitioning Parliament for breast cancer treatments
17 Mar 2019Petitioners calling for funding for particular breast cancer treatments have fronted up to a committee in support of their request but how does the petition process work?
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Approval for both ends of a budget cycle
14 Mar 2019There was a chance this week (however slim) that you might not have to pay any tax this year. So how did that work out then?
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Parliament's to do list: Thursday 14 March 2019
14 Mar 2019Thursday's are shorter in the House but MPs still have legislation to work through including a Ngāti Rangi treaty settlement bill and partial trials for online voting.
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Oral questions versus the general debate
13 Mar 2019In the years' first Taupatupatu Whānui the messages were an uncanny mirror of oral Questions just ended. Mostly.
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Accidental coup d'etat: the Government did what?
13 Mar 2019In last week’s kerfuffle over a Select Committee, our constitution apparently changed. Unless people were very wrong.
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One general, many committees and a Lazarus
12 Mar 2019MPs argue daily about bills that aspire to be laws. Today they’ll be knee deep in committees, after their first ‘general’. Here's the plan.
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Synthetic cannabis, tax rates, and cartels in the House
12 Mar 2019For those who've ever wondered what MPs even do in the House we asked the Deputy Leader of the House Iain Lees-Galloway to tell us this week's plan in under four minutes.
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That's a bingo!
12 Mar 2019Parliament can be boring so here's a special parliament themed bingo to help you through.
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Tuesday at Parliament
12 Mar 2019Each day at Parliament MPs work through various items of business in the House, today they'll work on tax, and synthetic cannabis legislation.
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The Defence Force's worm farms
10 Mar 2019Worm farms, smaller portions, rescuing food and educating marae are some of the methods being used to prevent food waste a select committee has been told.
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The other members' bills
7 Mar 2019Parliamentary Members' Days can be filled with interest and suspense. But not usually. Sometimes MPs have to keep themselves entertained by littering speeches with rubbish trash puns.
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