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Foreign buyers, drug checking, and sick leave
18 May 2021It'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
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MPs debate immigration and border policies
13 May 2021Petitions to Parliament say the border closure has separated families and caused mental distress to those here on temporary visas or stuck overseas waiting for entry
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One person’s vigil is another’s intimidation
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…
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The last of Budget 2019, non-government bills, and a special immigration debate at Parliament
11 May 2021The last of Budget 2019, bills from non-ministers and a special debate on immigration and border policies will take place at Parliament this week.
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Everyone’s a winner! - Member's day
10 May 2021It’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.
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Public help makes good bills great law
MPs spend many hours trying to tease out the best way to legislate impossibly complex issues. Thankfully they get help from the experts - you.
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Bill to increase sick leave worked on at Parliament
6 May 2021Progress has been made on a bill to increase employer funded sick leave from five to ten days
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Parliament: compromising to achieve motion
Parliament agrees Human Rights in China are problematic - after agreeing a compromise to debate them.
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The tag-team performance review
4 May 2021Every year Parliament runs a ten hour long tag-team performance review for ministers.
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Visas, budgets, and counter-terrorism laws before MPs this week
4 May 2021MPs will work on bills to extend or cancel visas, approve spending for past budgets, counter-terrorism laws and an increase in sick leave at Parliament this week
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Prepping for Budget 2021 at Parliament
2 May 2021Budget 2021 is due to be announced on 20 May but the priorities that guide the budget decisions have already been published and debated by MPs.
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Dear Parliament, Try again, Sincerely, the Courts
You might not have noticed but our constitution suddenly shifted a little six years ago. Parliament is currently figuring out how to adapt to that.
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Same-sex adoption, religious freedoms, and child-abuse petitions before Parliament
18 Apr 2021Calls to force witnesses to child abuse to speak, reforming adoption law for same-sex couples, and better protections for religious freedoms have been made at Parliament
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The dark arts of question time
15 Apr 2021It’s a hard road finding the perfect parliamentary question, but this week had some pointers on tactics.
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Parliament 'unwise' to act as judge as urgent debate denied
14 Apr 2021Parliament has been told acting as judge and jury would be 'unwise' in response to a request for an urgent debate today.
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Kill Bill 3 - Parliament’s zombie sequel
14 Apr 2021Bills get killed a lot at Parliament. But when a bill comes back for a second go - zombie style - your kill-shot has to be more creative.
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Covid-19 minister to ask for a power top-up
Chris Hipkins outlines the parliamentary week and explains why the same Covid-19 law is being approved by MPs for the third time in little more than a year.
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Hot messages in a cold climate
Last week’s student-led Climate Strike protest at Parliament was a colourful event on a dour, damp day. We collected a few photos from the occasion.
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The new bills in town
11 Apr 2021Parliament got five new bills out of the box for public feedback this week. Bills on sunscreen, solo parent benefits, compulsory treatment, immigration and incorporated societies. Something for…
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Squeezing in sunscreen standards
Parliament adds an extra Member’s Day and squeezes a sunscreen regulation bill out of it.
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MPs hold urgent debate on Trans-Tasman travel bubble
7 Apr 2021MPs have held an urgent debate on the recent announcement of a date for no-quarantine travel between Australia and New Zealand
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Ngāti Hinerangi claims bill and an extra members' day at Parliament
6 Apr 2021MPs will work on the final stages of the Ngāti Hinerangi Claims Bill and an an extra day of bills from non-Ministers this week.
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Making rules in the name of Covid-19
4 Apr 2021New Zealanders have been ordered about by the Government as part of its response to Covid-19 but who makes the rules and is anyone keeping an eye on those with the power?
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MPs keep it local in special debate
28 Mar 2021Roadworks on the way to Wellington Airport, ambulance wait times in Taieri, Waitematā water quality, and churches in Levin have been highlighted by MPs in a special debate at Parliament.
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