Barbara Kuriger

Taming Question Time is not easy but this week the Speaker has attempted to reign in the use of Points of Order to make out of order points. Audio

The Waikato beachside town of Raglan is waking up under an alert level 3 lockdown after a Covid-19 case popped up in the community yesterday.

The case is one of two detected in the Waikato yesterday… Audio

After a month without progress on debating bills Parliament returned to the debating chamber this week for some full throttle law-making, making up for lost time. Audio

Four years ago an almost anonymous bill began life in Parliament. This week that quiet bill turned up the volume, went loud and now commands attention. Audio

We look at the first outing of the conversion therapy ban bill, and whether MPs could need therapy for first reading  confusion. Audio

Aotearoa's hooked on coal, importing more than one million tonnes of low grade coal from Indonesia last year.

The fuel was burnt at the Huntly power station to keep the lights on, as gas fields… Audio

Rural doctors and nurses are turning down their chance of a Covid vaccine because they would have to take hours out of their day to get one.

The head of the rural GP network, Fiona Bolden, says… Audio

The government has fired back at the Opposition for suggesting its 2018 ban on gas exploration has lead to a major increase in coal imports.

New data shows the amount of coal imported last year was… Audio

MPs tackle bills on revenge porn, miscarriage bereavement leave, abortion clinic safe zones and cannabis in this Parliament's first members' day  Audio

The National Party is criticising the government's list of "shovel-ready projects", meant to kickstart the economy, for not generating enough jobs for women.

Many of the projects on the list will… Audio

The son of a National Party MP has been ordered to pay more than $4000 after being convicted for the ill-treatment of dairy cows on a farm he ran near Eketehuna.

Sharemilker Tony Kuriger admitted in… Video, Audio

As Cabinet ministers grapple to get a hold of the rapidly developing Covid-19 crisis, they will meet in a new way this morning - with half dialling in via video-conference to limit their physical… Audio

It may be a kinder, gentler Parliament but there are still a lot of whips around the place. Not the ‘cat-o-nine-tails’ variety, but people with a very odd job title.  Audio