In Parliament

House sits under urgency as the Opposition slows progress on the government's bills with a filibuster. Audio

Bill English delivers his seventh Budget. Andrew Little launches Budget Debate with traditional no confidence amendment. John Key launches personal attack on Andrew Little. Winston Peters sees red but… Read more Audio

Bill English delivers his seventh Budget. Andrew Little launches Budget Debate with traditional no confidence amendment. John Key launches personal attack on Andrew Little. Winston Peters sees red but… Read more Audio

Budget Day dawns, freeing Ministers from the bonds of secrecy preventing them from answering any opposition questions that might cause embarrassment. Labour's Grant Robertson is thrown out for… Read more Audio

One more big sleep before Budget Day when all will be revealed; Ministers invoke the need for secrecy to frustrate opposition attempts to obtain answers to questions even vaguely related to the… Read more Audio

Prime Minister John Key quizzed on the government's tightened tax
regime for residential property investors. Finance Minister Bill
English coy on contents of his seventh Budget, to be presented on
… Read more Audio

Prime Minister John Key quizzed on the government's tightened tax regime for residential property investors. Finance Minister Bill English coy on contents of his seventh Budget, to be presented on… Read more Audio

Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler and his deputy, Grant Spencer, brief the Finance and Expenditure committee on the risks to financial stability from the Auckland housing market and falling dairy… Read more Audio

John Key and Andrew Little go head to head; Questions and Snap debate on Whanau Ora; Nanaia Mahuta pays tribute to Erima Henare; NZ First's Ria Bond gives maiden speech; David Wilson appointed as new… Read more Audio

Nanaia Mahuta pays tribute to Ngati Hine leader Erima Henare; Winston Peters makes submission on the Flag Referendum Bill to Justice and Electoral Committee; Trevor Mallard presents his petition on… Read more Audio

Nanaia Mahuta pays tribute to Ngati Hine leader Erima Henare; Winston Peters makes submission on the Flag Referendum Bill to Justice and Electoral Committee; Trevor Mallard presents his petition on… Read more Audio

Winston Peters makes submission on the Flag Referendum Bill to Justice and Electoral Committee; Trevor Mallard presents his petition on that Bill to the same committee; Te Ururoa Flavell fields… Read more Audio