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Parliament’s sweet spot for extra days
6:55 PM.For the next while Parliament is sitting an extra morning each week. It has hit the twixt-reviews sweet-spot and has also has a lot of new ideas to debate. Read more Audio
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Parliament at night: scenes inside the ant hill
7:35 AM.Parliament at night is a different vibe to Parliament during the day. Staff numbers on precinct have mostly thinned out, but it's a time when the weird and wonderful can happen. Read more Audio
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Youth MPs call for improved civics education in NZ schools
11:42 AM.Youth MPs part of joint international call to governments for provision of better access to civics education for youth. Read more
Coming up
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Meet a new MP: Dan Rosewarne
6:30 PM.We meet a new MP, Dan Rosewarne who gave hs maiden speech this week: a chance to say 'who I am, how I got to be here and what I hope to achieve'. Read more Video, Audio
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Extended sitting weeks begin as legislative agenda gets busy
6:55 PM.The latest from the House Read more Audio
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Beyond imposter syndrome - Youth Parliament 2022
7:30 AM.Last week Parliament was taken over by the new leaders Youth Parliament - an opportunity for rangatahi to speak and the rest of us to pay attention. Read more Audio
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Parliament’s cooperative team captains
7:35 AM.MPs in Parliament shout at each other a lot, but they also cooperate a lot, including about the timetable for that shouting. It's all more efficient that way. Read more Audio
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If the House is Parliament's mouth, this is its brain
7:35 AM.There are various parts of Parliament that could be deemed crucial to the functioning of the place, but perhaps none quite so much as the House Office. Read more Audio
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The House For Sunday 10 July 2022
7:30 AM.MPs in Parliament shout at each other a lot, but they also cooperate a lot, including about the timetable for that shouting. It's all more effecient that way. Audio
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Decoding Parliament's money talk
7:30 AM.MPs talk about money a lot. The rest of us often blank out the financials as 'just math'. Annoyingly the money is important so The House tries to explain all that dry 'Appropriations' money talk. Read more Audio
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Studying Parliament from the inside
6:55 PM.For the students of parliament, public law or politics, the best place to be right in the heart of the legislative chamber, but kind of invisible. In other words, part of the Chamber Operations team.
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An expeditious Tuesday
6:55 PM.Parliament began the week at top pace moving five bills through ten stages in an evening, though there's a little bit of double counting going on. Read more Audio
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Tips on surviving Question Time
6:55 PM.One of Parliament's best exponents of the skills of gladiatorial quizzes offers advice on "surviving Question Time". Read more Video, Audio
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Learning to Minister, and a crucial skill
7:30 AM.Being a minister involves many difficult skills that other MPs don’t need. The most crucial might be questions. Answering them well has very little to do with performing ministerial duties well, but… Read more Audio
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Christchurch Call making headway
6:55 PM.The Governance and Administration committee has been hearing from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet about what progress has been made on the Christchurch Call. Read more Audio
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Committee hears more on plight of 'hope seekers' from Tuvalu
6:55 PM.Parliament’s Education and Workforce Committee has been considering the plight of undocumented Tuvaluans living in New Zealand without the right to work or to gain residency. Read more Audio
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Sense of urgency in Parliament amid winter gloom
6:55 PM.Two bills - one addressing the supermarket duopoly, the other providing for a fourth round of Covid vaccination - are set for their second reading, committee stage and third readings this week. Read more Audio
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Parliament’s Serjeant: More than ceremonial
7:35 AM.You might recognise him by his voice, so long as he is shouting. But despite his role being front-and-centre at Parliament you might be surprised what he does, and what he can do. Read more Audio
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Begin at the centre: interning at Parliament
7:35 AM.The House chats with current and former parliamentary interns from Steven Levine's Victoria University of Wellington internship programme about starting work at the very centre of things. Read more Audio
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Local authorities urge MPs to support alcohol harm minimisation bill
6:55 PM.A proposed member’s bill addressing a power imbalance that prevents communities taking steps to develop public health measures on alcohol use could bypass the ballot process if enough MPs agreed. Read more Audio
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If you miss a major reform, wait a day or two...
6:55 PM.In the current Parliament major reforms are coming along almost as frequently as buses. This week there are two separate and equally momentous legislative reform bills on the agenda. Read more Audio
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The Budget: Shades of debate
7:35 AM.MPs spend many hours shouting past each other about the budget, but have tactics and objectives behind all the hubbub. Phil Smith dissects the year’s first budget debate-fest - the eight hour long… Read more Audio
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Hanging messages on Pae Ora
6:55 PM.MPs have been getting down and dirty in the critical mud-wrestling phase of legislation to reform the public health system, the Pae Ora (Healthy futures) Bill. Read more Audio
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Aged Care workers call for increased minimum staff levels
6:55 PM.Parliament’s health select committee hears a cry for help from workers in aged care residential facilities that staffing levels in their sector are unsafe and failing people. Read more Audio