In Parliament

With Parliament on a two-week adjournment, the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee hears submissions on the TPPA, we speak with Deputy Speaker Chester Borrows about this year's Speaker's… Read more Audio

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman and his Labour shadow Annette King square off in question time and the annual review debate; Te Pire mo Te Reo Maori Maori Language Bill passes final reading; New… Read more Audio

Three treaty settlement bills pass first readings, while the Maori Language Bill passes its final reading by 104 votes to 11; Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee hears submissions on the TPPA… Read more Audio

New Zealand First MPs follow their deputy leader out the door after Jonathan Coleman, answering Ron Mark's questions about protection of fisheries, calls him a cook and Mister Mark responds by calling… Read more Audio

House begins 10-hour Annual Review Debate, with a contribution from Finance & Expenditure Committee chairman David Bennett leading Assistant Speaker Trevor Mallard to remind MPs of the parameters of… Read more Audio

Prime Minister, John Key, emerges unscathed from a fresh hail of questions about tax havens, spiced with exposure of a link to a legal specialist in foreign trusts among his pecuniary interests. Of… Read more Audio

Government faces more questions about tax havens and money laundering in light of last week's "Panama Papers" leak; Other questions to ministers range from rising sea levels to hospital waiting lists… Read more Audio

The prime minister, John Key, faces more questions about tax havens. Opposition leader, Andrew Little, tables his tax records but his move not matched by the PM. John Shewan's appointment to head… Read more Audio

Government rejects allegations that New Zealand is a tax haven, the subject of many questions from Opposition parties. Their requests for an urgent debate on the allegations is rejected by the… Read more Audio

House is adjourned until Tuesday 12 April. Dramatic end to week after Leader of the House, Gerry Brownlee, makes an unprecedented attack on the new chief ombudsman, Judge Peter Boshier. New Zealand… Read more Audio

Leader of the House, Gerry Brownlee, makes an unprecedented attack on the new chief ombudsman, Judge Peter Boshier, and is roundly condemned for it by opposition speakers led by Labour's Trevor… Read more Audio

A members' bill which exempts RSA clubs from ANZAC day alcohol licensing restrictions is passed through all stages in less than an hour; Petition calling for Government to revoke Special Housing Area… Read more Audio