Parliament

After a Budget announcement MPs tend to stay on for a long session of urgent Budget-bill debates. This year they wrapped it up pretty fast.  Audio

Budget 2021 dominates Parliament with the Government revealing where it plans to spend the country's money over the next financial year but the process to approve it doesn't change Audio

The law allowing drug testing at festivals is set to expire in December but MPs are working on a bill to put in a permanent system Audio

It's budget week at Parliament but there are bills to work through before that takes place on issues like overseas investment, drug testing, and increasing sick leave Audio

Parliament’s Health Committee is hearing public feedback on the possibility of safe zones to distance abortion protests from clinics. It's a rights-versus-rights debate with a lot of personal… Audio

The Leader of the House Chris Hipkins explains what MPs will work on in the chamber this week including finalising Budget 2019, bills from non-ministers, and a debate on immigration and border… Audio

The last of Budget 2019, bills from non-ministers and a special debate on immigration and border policies will take place at Parliament this week.  Audio

It’s member’s week at Parliament and the bills likely to progress have a ‘Step right up! - Everyone’s a winner!’ flavour to them. Well, mostly.

China used to deny or ignore media queries about the human rights of the ethnic Uighur minority. But before our government debated its response in Parliament this week, China’s embassy held an… Video, Audio

Pioneering New Zealand feminist, activist and former Green MP Sue Kedgley first came to public attention in the 1970s as an early, outspoken women's liberationist for femism. Her new book, Fifty Years… Audio

MPs spend many hours trying to tease out the best way to legislate impossibly complex issues. Thankfully they get help from the experts - you. Audio