The House
Legislation, issues and insights from Parliament.
Episodes
In a historic first, Parliament used a new rule to debate slavery legislation that has wide support in the House, but that government coalition partners don’t agree on. Plus other stories from a week of unlikely allies and surprising foes.
MPs have questioned the Broadcasting Standards Authority’s role in the digital era during a select committee briefing, as the regulator signals a need for reform.
A proposed new law would allow more prisoner segregation, but also mandate basic rights. MPs agree prison should ‘reflect our shared view of humanity’, even for those who ‘deserve the least sympathy’.
Parliament began this week with a question time in which the Government was being pressed by...another member of Government?
With distracting party politics going on outside the House, MPs were brought back on task by the Speaker on more than one occasion this week.
Parliament's weekly free debate can give a surprising insight into the mood and politics of both MPs and parties.
While political attention was fixed on what was said in Tuesday morning’s National Party caucus, MPs still had parliamentary work to do. And this week, that was mostly the Annual Review Debate.
This week’s political intrigue bled into Question Time and illustrated Parliament’s rules about ministerial responsibility and lying or, as Parliament terms it, 'misleading the House'.
Step into the past to picture the early days of Wellington's Parliament and the 1890s Victorian neighbourhood it sat in, with help from historian Elizabeth Cox, author of Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington Street by Street.
What if a group of randomly selected people were put in a room and asked to hammer out national policy? it sounds a bit like a social experiment, but at last month's democracy forum at Parliament, it was sincerely proposed.
The House saw a dichotomy of tempos this week, from a heated debate about fisheries one day, to a lighthearted, and at times even funny debate on parody and satire law.
This week, MPs debated a bill to protect parody and satire, the right to take the mickey under New Zealand’s copyright law, something they themselves may well be the target of.
An Auckland housing plan law passed quickly under urgency, but its committee stage was full of interesting asides.
It’s a busy week at Parliament, with the House getting urgent on Auckland, and debating alcohol, animals, banter, and badges.
With politicians' attention very much looking outward amidst talks of a potential escalation in the conflict, or even a fuel crisis reminiscent of the 1970s, Parliament still nonetheless had things to address back home.
Amendments to immigration law would further punish migrant exploitation and also widen the ability to deport migrants for various offences.
A bill moving through Parliament is set to end greyhound racing in New Zealand. This week’s second reading offered a case study in careful, and at times awkward, political messaging.
Parliament’s first debate this week was over New Zealand signing a statement offering “readiness to contribute" in the Strait of Hormuz.
With an election looming in November, The House sat down with Clerk David Wilson to get a roadmap of what’s to be expected between now and then.
This week at Parliament we heard a debate all about the future that ended up being mired in the past. We also heard a goodbye speech from one of Parliament's more talented orators.
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