The House

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Legislation, issues and insights from Parliament.

Episode Date
The House on Sunday: Anti-slavery law uses new rule to bypass ballot
May 02, 2026
MPs probe BSA’s role in the digital era
Apr 30, 2026
New prisoner segregation rules get ‘dignity, not sympathy’ response from MPs
Apr 29, 2026
Question Time begins with a showdown between a Minister and..... a Minister?
Apr 28, 2026
House on Sunday: Party politics spills over into the House throughout the week
Apr 25, 2026
The General Debate: Open mic night at Parliament
Apr 23, 2026
Ministers brought back on task for Annual Review debate
Apr 22, 2026
Responsibility and porkies: When party politics bleeds into Parliament
Apr 21, 2026
The Victorian Parliament: Amid slum, disease, fire and illegal demolition
Apr 18, 2026
Citizens assemblies: an alternative to select committees?
Apr 12, 2026
The House on Sunday: Fish fights and satire rights
Apr 04, 2026
MPs debate taking the Mickey
Apr 02, 2026
Auckland housing law passes under urgency, after a freewheeling committee
Apr 01, 2026
Urgency, but first... fishing
Mar 31, 2026
The House of Sunday: MPs debate both local and global issues
Mar 28, 2026
Immigration changes to both protect migrants and also ease deporting them
Mar 26, 2026
MPs Lament greyhound Ban but still vote for it
Mar 25, 2026
MPs debate an apparent offer to assist in the Strait of Hormuz
Mar 24, 2026
What to expect when you’re expecting an election
Mar 21, 2026
The House on Sunday: Long term debates and departing reflections
Mar 14, 2026
Henare asks MPs to rebuild trust in Parliament
Mar 12, 2026
MPs debate the long term, but even a week is a long time in politics
Mar 11, 2026
MPs debate lessons learned from the pandemic
Mar 10, 2026
House on Sunday: Submission advice, and politics in infrastructure
Mar 07, 2026
Removing politics from infrastructure, with a little politics
Mar 05, 2026
MPs put public service integrity under the microscope
Mar 04, 2026
Helping stop bad law
Mar 03, 2026
Written Questions: A less frustrating Question Time?
Feb 28, 2026
House on Sunday: Maiden speeches and memorable speeches
Feb 21, 2026
Parliament's late comer makes maiden statement
Feb 19, 2026
Turning back time through law
Feb 18, 2026
Bishop and McAnulty speeches among the standouts
Feb 17, 2026
DEI and Employment Relations: The week's contentious bills
Feb 14, 2026
Employment relations and full speed, one-sided debates
Feb 12, 2026
Public Service Amendment Bill reignites DEI debate in the House
Feb 11, 2026
Question Time - the election year edition
Feb 10, 2026
Inside the Chief of Staff role: The House chats with Kevin Hague
Feb 07, 2026
"I just wanted to leave quietly." Former Speaker Adrian Rurawhe farewells Parliament
Jan 29, 2026
Parliament’s first week a warm-up to the election
Jan 28, 2026
Parliament begins the year in lament, before debate
Jan 27, 2026
Adjournment debate: It's déjà vu all over again
Dec 19, 2025
On their final day MPs consider quality of our final years
Dec 17, 2025
MPs on Bondi attack: Theme and variations
Dec 16, 2025
Parliament gets urgent on voting rules and climate targets
Dec 13, 2025
Penultimate week of the year begins with RMA shakeup
Dec 10, 2025
Parliament’s gentle pre-Christmas slowdown anything but gentle
Dec 09, 2025
Scrutiny Week: Politics, oversight and attention
Dec 06, 2025
Number crunching continues amid high profile scrutiny squabbles
Dec 04, 2025
Scrutiny Week: A cascade of diminishing attention
Dec 03, 2025
Scrutiny week kicks off with high profile issues dominating exchanges
Dec 01, 2025
Urgency ends early after voting gaffe
Nov 30, 2025
Parliament's penultimate sitting block brings long nights in the House
Nov 23, 2025
Voting process slows but doesn't stop bills under urgency
Nov 21, 2025
Clean vehicle bill passed under urgency
Nov 20, 2025
MPs debate the details under urgency
Nov 19, 2025
13 bills get urgency treatment in penultimate sitting block of 2025
Nov 18, 2025
Loophole results in 11 day submission period for fast track amendments
Nov 16, 2025
Government completes four bills in a week of political sideshows
Nov 13, 2025
The House: Parliament reacts to the Jevon McSkimming scandal
Nov 12, 2025
Question time directs rare question to non-Ministerial MP
Nov 11, 2025
Introducing: Politics NZ
Nov 10, 2025
From combative words to first words as new MP gives maiden statement
Nov 09, 2025
A former PM weighs in on Parliament's rules
Nov 06, 2025
Redress, apologies, and pardons as MPs work on three Treaty settlement bills
Nov 05, 2025
Regulatory Standards Bill back in the House after a highly engaged public submission period.
Nov 04, 2025
Behind the scenes at the MP’s library
Nov 02, 2025
House on Sunday: A power debate, Standing Orders tinkering, and a election date?
Oct 25, 2025
Parliament delivers two heralds of the 2026 election
Oct 23, 2025
A question of intent: Takutai Moana Bill passes third reading
Oct 22, 2025
It's called Question Time, not Answer Time
Oct 21, 2025
Moe mai rā, Mr Bolger: MPs Lament the death of the "great helmsman"
Oct 16, 2025
MPs hear submissions on Public Service Bill
Oct 15, 2025
Sometimes Parliament needs plot summaries
Oct 14, 2025
'A product of Māori resilience': Oriini Kaipara's maiden statement
Oct 11, 2025
MPs hash out the details of abuse in state care legislation
Oct 09, 2025
Good MPs make great quiz team members
Oct 08, 2025
Groundhog Day as Peter’s delivers third Ministerial Statement on Gaza
Oct 07, 2025
The third branch: Parliament's relationship with the courts
Oct 04, 2025
Inside the Beehive’s emergency command bunker
Sep 27, 2025
Government gets urgent on adoption
Sep 20, 2025
MPs celebrate Māori language week by arguing in te reo
Sep 18, 2025
Government passes adoption bill under urgency
Sep 17, 2025
Moves from the Question Time playbook
Sep 16, 2025
Politics vs Governance: The Budget finale
Sep 13, 2025
The four month journey to budget approval
Sep 10, 2025
Parliament’s workload and pace squeezing out committees
Sep 09, 2025
The House on Sunday: Parliament's local MP
Sep 06, 2025
A Tikanga for Parliament
Aug 30, 2025
The House on Sunday: slow government lawmaking and suggestions of lying
Aug 23, 2025
Lies, damn lies and parliamentary debate
Aug 21, 2025
Opposition backbench passes more bills than National backbench
Aug 20, 2025
Parliament this week: ETS reform, stalking, and spying
Aug 19, 2025
Spine and Punishment: A review of Swarbrick v Brownlee
Aug 16, 2025
Political distractions dominate while the House chips away at lawmaking
Aug 14, 2025
More rates and more debt: MPs hear from Auditor General on Local Councils
Aug 13, 2025
Palestine: Divining a position from a lack of answers
Aug 12, 2025
Parliament’s cross-partisan powerhouse and the new law that undermines it
Aug 09, 2025
House on Sunday: Electoral enrolment changes, & 'Unimportant' bills
Aug 02, 2025
Parliament's 'rats and mice'
Jul 31, 2025
Opposition drills into Crown Minerals Bill
Jul 30, 2025
Speaker nods towards large changes to Question Time
Jul 29, 2025
House on Sunday: EU MPs and a maiden statement
Jul 25, 2025
European MPs at Parliament
Jul 24, 2025
Space, spies, stalking, and extra sittings
Jul 23, 2025
Peters navigates opposition questions on Gaza
Jul 22, 2025
Are our politicians 'free to lead'
Jul 19, 2025
Parliament versus Executive: Regs Review and the Regulatory Standards Bill
Jul 17, 2025
MPs check in with Parliament's boss
Jul 16, 2025
New sitting block, new bills
Jul 15, 2025
"We are watching, we are rising, we will not be silenced": Youth Parliament 2025
Jul 12, 2025
Making law: A final avalanche of edits
Jul 05, 2025
House on Sunday: Debating war, mourning death
Jun 28, 2025
MPs pay tribute to Takutai Tarsh Kemp
Jun 26, 2025
Bills under urgency
Jun 25, 2025
Situation in the Middle East: Parliament reacts
Jun 24, 2025
The House on Sunday: Xu-Nan on scrutiny, and bear pit tactics
Jun 21, 2025
Tactics from the scrutiny bear pit
Jun 19, 2025
Peters holds court at foreign affairs scrutiny hearing
Jun 18, 2025
Lawrence Xu-Nan: Prepping for scrutiny week
Jun 17, 2025
The House: Morning Tea with Matt Doocey
Jun 14, 2025
The House: A sentencing hearing in Parliament
Jun 07, 2025
Two out of three: Parliament's week
Jun 05, 2025
Health Committee hear submissions on Medicines Amendment Bill
Jun 03, 2025
Pint of Order! Parliament and Alcohol
Jun 03, 2025
Categories and strategy: The path of Parliament's members' bills
May 31, 2025
MPs knuckle down for marathon budget urgency
May 24, 2025
Words and Numbers: Budget Day in the House
May 22, 2025
What to expect when you're expecting a Budget: The House chats with James Picker
May 21, 2025
Surprise adjournment cuts short haka punishment debate
May 21, 2025
Sir Anand Satyanand: "The Governor General is deep in the DNA of Parliament”
May 17, 2025
Decoding the Speaker’s reaction to the Privileges Committee report
May 14, 2025
Auditor-General tells MPs Treaty settlement commitments aren't being met by public organisations
May 14, 2025
MPs debate abuse in state care redress system
May 14, 2025
House on Sunday: Parliament debates pay equity claims and farewells a Labour stalwart
May 10, 2025
Labour's 'conviction politician' farewells Parliament
May 08, 2025
The Equal Pay Amendment Bill debate: Fast and furious
May 07, 2025
A tardy memorium for Francis
May 06, 2025
Cabinet-lite: Louise Upston sheds light on the Government's Cabinet Committees
May 03, 2025
Democratic guardrails: Is NZ safe from authoritarianism?
Apr 26, 2025
The watchdog that listens: Peter Boshier reflects on nine years as Ombudsman
Apr 19, 2025
House on Sunday: A scavenger hunt, a Treaty bill, and an annual health check
Apr 12, 2025
The unusual death of the Treaty bill
Apr 09, 2025
Verrall and Brown go tit-for-tat in health annual review debate
Apr 09, 2025
A Question Time Scavenger Hunt
Apr 08, 2025
Behind the door at a parliamentary privilege hearing
Apr 05, 2025
The parliamentary background to the 'missing submissions' story
Apr 03, 2025
Gene Technology Bill: The public have their say
Apr 02, 2025
Threats without consequences: Parliament’s “school-yard stupidity” classroom
Apr 01, 2025
Parliament Bill arrives back in the House
Mar 30, 2025
Do we need a Parliamentary Budget Office?
Mar 27, 2025
Urgency giveth, and urgency taketh away
Mar 26, 2025
A week of urgent plod sprinkled with chaos
Mar 25, 2025
Climate change adaptation: Parliament asks the small questions
Mar 22, 2025
Budget debate lite: MPs debate Budget Policy Statement
Mar 15, 2025
Fictional fiscal cliffs – misinterpreting budgets for political gain
Mar 12, 2025
First dose of urgency for the year fixes legal issue
Mar 11, 2025
Four more years? MPs get first chance to debate parliamentary term length bill
Mar 06, 2025
New bill gives green light to congestion charging
Mar 05, 2025
Urgent debate on Bayly resignation
Mar 04, 2025
The Changing Sound of Politics: The voices of past PMs
Mar 01, 2025
MPs, the public, and media get rare glimpse into intelligence community
Feb 20, 2025
It's complicated: Debating justice
Feb 19, 2025
"We have generations of fix-it culture": Marama Davidson on her 'Right to Repair' members bill
Feb 18, 2025
The Prosecution of Stupid, and The Growth Debate
Feb 15, 2025
The Themes and Stylings of a 13-Hour Debate
Feb 13, 2025
"Mental health is about lived experience" Minister tells MPs
Feb 12, 2025
Rules and punishments for MPs
Feb 11, 2025
The Summer of 300,000 submissions
Feb 10, 2025
The Maunga owns itself
Jan 30, 2025
New Year Resolutions: Parliament Style
Jan 29, 2025
Parliament begins with farewells
Jan 27, 2025
The last shout: Parliament's chaotic finale
Dec 21, 2024
Parliament fits an extra morning into final sitting day
Dec 18, 2024
Podcast Extra: Debating a ruling
Dec 17, 2024
Labour moves Speaker from the 'nice' to 'naughty' list
Dec 17, 2024
The House on Sunday: Blitz week and a crammed committee
Dec 14, 2024
New bills for public feedback among end of year blitz
Dec 13, 2024
Parliament on the home stretch, but first: a 30 hour sitting week
Dec 12, 2024
Tough Justice - How to drown a committee
Dec 11, 2024
Pacific presiders: Parliament hosts pacific speakers and clerks conference.
Dec 10, 2024
Quizzing, interrogation, and grilling: scrutiny week in review
Dec 07, 2024
"RMA reform and land supply fundamental." Housing Minister tells MPs.
Dec 05, 2024
"Out there with our tails up." Defence minister defends defence.
Dec 05, 2024
Scrutiny week - peek-a-boo reporting in Health
Dec 03, 2024
Boosting Scrutiny Week: “Sometimes, for billions of dollars, you’d have a half-hour hearing.”
Nov 30, 2024
"To love is to move towards freedom" - Parliament's newest member makes their maiden statement
Nov 22, 2024
Meanwhile, passing law in the House
Nov 21, 2024
The little Members Bill that could: Restoring Citizenship Bill passes third reading
Nov 20, 2024
Noise and passion: Mostly outside the chamber
Nov 20, 2024
Press Gallery 101: The House chats with Jason Walls
Nov 17, 2024
Snubbing ACT, shaming National: a week of the Treaty bill
Nov 14, 2024
The House: It’s all politics
Nov 13, 2024
Responding to Abuse in Care Bill: Major parties put politics aside, minor parties not so much
Nov 12, 2024
The teen and the veteran: Parliament Bill Committee hears from the public
Nov 09, 2024
Fighting the Wind to Fly the Flag
Nov 07, 2024
Harmony and discord: Parliament’s inconstant chamber
Nov 07, 2024
Early jabs in a new bout: The first Question Time in a new sitting block
Nov 05, 2024
Parliament Library became haunted house for Halloween
Nov 02, 2024
Returning Samoan citizenship & a request to add to Te Tiriti
Oct 26, 2024
"It's good to be on the right side of history": Restoring Citizenship Bill passes second reading
Oct 24, 2024
Government passes RMA reform bill on freshwater
Oct 24, 2024
Gazetted: Banning petards and being hoist on them
Oct 23, 2024
Petard hoisting, petard banning
Oct 22, 2024
Political messaging: top down, bottom up
Oct 19, 2024
"A decent conversation": the art of the Ministerial statement
Oct 17, 2024
The submitters, and you.
Oct 16, 2024
Sinking of the HMNZS Manawanui: Parliament reacts
Oct 15, 2024
Speaker’s little helpers: Parliament’s other presiding officers
Oct 12, 2024
Vetting Parliament's Questions
Oct 05, 2024
Parliament considers a bill about... itself
Sep 28, 2024
Parliament gets urgent on sentencing, mining, and charter schools
Sep 26, 2024
Taking the funding of Parliament off governments
Sep 25, 2024
"Arcane but really important": Parliament Bill gets special committee
Sep 24, 2024
Opposition forcing long debates on short committees
Sep 21, 2024
Wā Pātai: Māori language week at Parliament
Sep 19, 2024
MPs rediscover a filibustering tactic
Sep 18, 2024
Budget 2024: Light at the end of the tunnel
Sep 17, 2024
Leading in opposition & building an alternative government
Sep 14, 2024
Parsing Question Time answers
Sep 11, 2024
Parliament honours Kiingi Tuheitia
Sep 11, 2024
CYP 12 - 60 MPs, 60 accents, 100 opinions
Sep 07, 2024
Rising costs and rising seas: Parliament’s climate adaptation inquiry
Aug 31, 2024
Petitioner reveals NZ First's original fast track bill, with hidden projects
Aug 30, 2024
Stop the questions: a coach steps in to end the fight
Aug 28, 2024
From Beehive to Bluegrass: Kiwi MPs head stateside
Aug 25, 2024
How not to answer a question, and other lessons from Parliament
Aug 23, 2024
Water, coastlines, and corrections: Parliament’s committee stage this week
Aug 22, 2024
Kumbayah, now take that!
Aug 20, 2024
Being Māori at Parliament
Aug 17, 2024
Taking their word for it: Lying and MPs
Aug 10, 2024
Water cooler chat: Parliament’s General Debate
Aug 09, 2024
Let your vocal chords do the walking
Aug 08, 2024
What on earth is that noise: Parliament's bell keepers.
Aug 06, 2024
National tries for message discipline, ACT not so much
Aug 03, 2024
Like a student flat, parliament runs on rosters
Aug 03, 2024
MPs get primetime with state owned media
Aug 01, 2024
Going back on wards, aiming at gangs
Jul 31, 2024
MPs on the Abuse in Care report
Jul 27, 2024
‘Stripping is not exploitative, theft is’, strippers tell MPs
Jul 26, 2024
Turn up, stand up: Learning from MP’s mistakes 
Jul 25, 2024
Shadow leader visits UK clerks
Jul 24, 2024
"Plans on top of plans": Being parliament’s scheduler
Jul 21, 2024
Lobbyists: What do they do and why the bad rep?
Jul 13, 2024
Displacement, drift, layering and conversion: The changing parliament
Jul 06, 2024
New bills, ferry debacles and Samoan citizenship rights
Jun 29, 2024
An urgent week leaves bills wanting feedback
Jun 28, 2024
Submissions on restoring Samoan's citizenship rights
Jun 28, 2024
Parliament debates ferry stranding and contract
Jun 26, 2024
Tuesday: Scrutiny begins
Jun 21, 2024
Scrutiny Week: When 'government comes to Parliament and tries to justify its spending'
Jun 15, 2024
Making complaining about MPs less scary
Jun 08, 2024
Budget Day: A Photo Essay
Jun 01, 2024
Urgency, at a snail's pace
Jun 01, 2024
Enough numbers, let’s talk process
May 31, 2024
A taste of something non-budget, with a hint of gooseberry
May 29, 2024
It's not Budget week, it's budget months
May 28, 2024
Parliament's Election Inquiry told blame lies in outdated laws
May 25, 2024
Parliament's regular election law inquiry
May 25, 2024
Dear Parliament: submissions open on Oranga Tamariki & Rental bills
May 23, 2024
Fast-track Approvals Bill: Submissions
May 21, 2024
Leaving the partisan: Gerry Brownlee on being Speaker
May 18, 2024
Three parliamentary signs that a new budget is imminent
May 11, 2024
Arguing the count while counting the clock
May 09, 2024
“I have some ideas about your budget plan…”
May 09, 2024
Parliament asks for budget for its watchdogs
May 07, 2024
'When old men plant trees': James Shaw's farewell
May 04, 2024
Ukrainian MPs at Parliament
May 02, 2024
The view from the other side: When MPs submit on bills
May 01, 2024
Annual ten-hour long interrogation of government performance begins this week
Apr 30, 2024
Fish and quiz: The many uses of written parliamentary questions
Apr 27, 2024
The House For Sunday 21 April 2024
Apr 20, 2024
How MPs cope with strains of the job
Apr 20, 2024
Member's Day surprises and more in short sitting block
Apr 13, 2024
The debate James Shaw delayed his retirement for
Apr 11, 2024
The well-worn path between Auditor-General and Parliament
Apr 10, 2024
Getting stuck on attack: the slow road to positivity in government
Apr 10, 2024
How petitions get Parliament's attention
Apr 06, 2024
How to MP: Tips from a ‘great parliamentarian’ 
Mar 30, 2024
Getting specific or aiming wide: The tactics of Question Time
Mar 29, 2024
Taking MPs at their word, or not
Mar 27, 2024
Parliament begins with money bills on a deadline
Mar 26, 2024
Making the cut: two of Parliament's thresholds
Mar 23, 2024
Auditor-General's youth mental health report before committee
Mar 21, 2024
Waiting weeks for urgent debates
Mar 20, 2024
Touch and go: list MPs on the cusp
Mar 19, 2024
Parliament’s future out the back
Mar 16, 2024
Chris Bishop: On keeping a tidy parliament
Mar 09, 2024
Long sitting block wraps up, urgency used throughout
Mar 07, 2024
Directing traffic in a bear pit: presiding over Question Time
Mar 06, 2024
Parliament agencies face increased demands and tight funds
Mar 05, 2024
Parliament: Why so much urgency?
Mar 02, 2024
Full steam ahead
Feb 29, 2024
Testy times for presiding officers
Feb 28, 2024
Foreign minister seeks larger diplomatic footprint, despite cuts
Feb 27, 2024
Fa’anānā Efeso Collins: In his own words
Feb 24, 2024
Parliament pauses out of respect for Efeso Collins
Feb 21, 2024
Is Casey Costello facing a privilege complaint?
Feb 20, 2024
Water reforms ditched and digital hitches: Parliament week
Feb 17, 2024
News media's existential crisis comes to select committee
Feb 15, 2024
Water reforms down the drain after repeal bill
Feb 14, 2024