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Covid, covid, covid, and especially vaccines: a week of questions in Parliament.

Power Play - Covid-19 can make or break political leaders and Judith Collins looks like a leader in danger of cracking, writes Jane Patterson.

A group that has been petitioning the government for such changes says it does not address the lack of supply of MIQ rooms, and there's little confidence they will make things fairer.

The House isn’t doing that much this week, mostly ‘General Business’. Both more and less of it than usual; and all of it pointing to interesting times. 

Te Pāti Māori and the Green Party have said they will not attend Parliament while Wellington is at alert level 4. ACT says the prime minister is using public health for political purposes.

Comment: New Zealanders may well be frustrated by the piecemeal extensions to Level 4 restrictions, writes Marc Daalder. But is the alternative that much better?

Analysis - Parliament is suspended, the Auckland outbreak puts the vaccine rollout under intense scrutiny and questions are raised about elimination.

The government must explain to New Zealanders what it knows, what it doesn't, and what it will do after people were potentially given saline instead of a vaccine, opposition parties say.

A baby under one year of age has been infected in the Delta outbreak, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield has revealed to the Health Select Committee.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson has fronted to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee, defending the government's planning and use of the Covid-19 Response and Recovery fund.

New Zealand's lockdown is extended, Parliament is temporarily suspended and the contact tracing system comes under pressure.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the week-long suspension today, but said select committees would continue online.

Opposition parties want Parliament to resume but it is still not clear when exactly that will happen.

The gloves are now off, with accusations from the National Party about the government's handling of the latest outbreak.

The death of Sir Michael Cullen has brought an outpouring of tributes, laments and remembrances from friends, colleagues and politicians of all stripes. Audio

National, ACT and the Green Party agree more needs to be done to help those in Afghanistan.

A proposed walk and cycle bridge over the Waitematā provoked a furious media backlash over the goverment's wasteful spending. Why don't roading projects get the same treatment?