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Enough numbers, let’s talk process
Once the Budget Statement is delivered, what happens next? The House looks beyond the initial announcement to the three different processes that follow it, sometimes concurrently. Audio
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A taste of something non-budget, with a hint of gooseberry
29 May 2024Like the calm before a storm, Wednesday evening at Parliament was not about the budget. It was a Members' Day including a bill on cellar door tastings. We sip… Audio
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It's not Budget week, it's budget months
28 May 2024It's budget week at Parliament, but Thursday's announcement is just the beginning of a long process of the Government convincing Parliament to fund its ideas. Audio
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Parliament's Election Inquiry told blame lies in outdated laws
26 May 2024Parliament begins its election inquiry with a double-header and finds that blame is something of a boomerang. Audio
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Enough numbers, let’s talk process
30 May 2024Once the Budget Statement is delivered, what happens next? The House looks beyond the initial announcement to the three different processes that follow it, sometimes concurrently. Read more Audio
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A taste of something non-budget, with a hint of gooseberry
29 May 2024Like the calm before a storm, Wednesday evening at Parliament was not about the budget. It was a Members' Day including a bill on cellar door tastings. We sip it with its sponsor Stuart Smith. Read more Audio
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It's not Budget week, it's budget months
28 May 2024It's budget week at Parliament, but Thursday's announcement is just the beginning of a long process of the Government convincing Parliament to fund its ideas. Read more Audio
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Parliament's Election Inquiry told blame lies in outdated laws
26 May 2024Parliament begins its election inquiry with a double-header and finds that blame is something of a boomerang. Read more Audio
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Parliament's regular election law inquiry
23 May 2024The Justice Committee has begun its inquiry into last year's election. It got some pretty solid and very polite suggestions right up front. Read more Audio
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Dear Parliament: submissions open on Oranga Tamariki & Rental bills
22 May 2024Changes to tenancy laws and the removal of Treaty obligations from Oranga Tamariki - two proposed new laws ask for public feedback. Read more Audio
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Fast-track Approvals Bill: Submissions
21 May 2024Parliament has been hearing submissions on the Fast-Track Approvals Bill. The House outlines the Bill and a variety of submissions. Read more Audio
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Leaving the partisan: Gerry Brownlee on being Speaker
19 May 2024We talk with the Speaker, Gerry Brownlee, about Question Time, MP porkies, and stepping above the fray after 27 years or partisan politics, to instead become 'Parliament's man'. Read more Audio
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Three parliamentary signs that a new budget is imminent
12 May 2024Before each budget comes a political vanguard of announcements and trailers. Parliament has its own, less political signs that a budget is about to arrive. Read more Audio
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Arguing the count while counting the clock
9 May 2024The Annual Review Debate allows Parliament to grill government ministers on performance in their areas, unless someone runs out of time first. They did. Read more Audio
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“I have some ideas about your budget plan…”
8 May 2024Members of the public give some last-minute advice to the Government about its budget plans, via committee hearings into the Budget Policy Statement. Read more Audio
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Parliament asks for budget for its watchdogs
7 May 2024In the lead-up to the Budget, Parliament goes over the head of the Government, asking the Governor General to add in some cash for Parliament's three watch-dogs. Read more Audio
