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Responses and responsibility

Aug 4, 20264 min

Bird flu something we have to "learn to live with," experts tell MPs

Jul 30, 20265 min

Debating pet petitions

Jul 29, 20265 min

The women changing Pacific politics

Jul 28, 20265 min

House on Sunday: Parliament gets stuck back in after recess

Jul 25, 202611 min

Members day returns to the House

Jul 23, 20266 min

Refreshed MPs add new debates to business backlog

Jul 22, 20265 min

No rest for the Justice Committee during sitting break

Jul 21, 20266 min

What should a parliamentary budget office look like?

Jul 18, 202614 min

Leader of the House: Juggling a jigsaw puzzle

Jul 11, 202615 min

House on Sunday: Ministerial responsibility & key bills from a big week

Jul 4, 202612 min

23 Bills, 36 stages: Here are eight to note

Jul 3, 20265 min

Ten third readings: A lot of practice crossing the finish line

Jul 2, 20265 min

The 'not my circus, not my monkey' defence

Jul 1, 20265 min

Rare declaration debate precedes a week of urgency

Jun 30, 20266 min

House on Sunday: Misinforming MPs, and an election-free QT

Jun 27, 202614 min

Misleading Parliament: Do MPs set a bad example?

Jun 25, 20265 min

Parliament hears submissions on "Samaritan bill"

Jun 24, 20266 min

Parliament (and ministers) kept in dark

Jun 23, 20265 min

House on Sunday: the last scrutiny week of the 54th Parliament

Jun 20, 202612 min

Defending defence's budget

Jun 18, 20265 min

ACC & Worksafe: Legislation meets budget scrutiny

Jun 17, 20265 min

Boggling ROI on art funding and optional rules for broadcast

Jun 16, 20265 min

Financial scrutiny in an election year

Jun 14, 202610 min

Politics; starting them young

Jun 6, 202613 min

House on Sunday: Budget day and its aftermath

May 30, 202614 min

After the Budget, urgency

May 29, 20265 min

Budget Day: More performance than spreadsheet

May 28, 20266 min

Slavery and terminated subjects squeezed in around the edges

May 27, 20265 min

Document handling debate distracts from Budget Week beginnings

May 26, 20266 min

The House on Sunday: Chamber blowback & biscuit tin tactics

May 23, 202612 min

The politics behind government backbenchers’ members’ bills

May 21, 20266 min

Chamber blowback: The third law of political motion

May 20, 20265 min

House on Sunday: farewells and funding

May 16, 202611 min

The constitutional shift you may have missed this week

May 14, 20265 min

Labour and National find common ground on online harm

May 13, 20266 min

'Practical change’ or ‘paradigm shift’? MPs debate conservation reform

May 12, 20264 min

House on Sunday: Learning on the ministerial job

May 9, 202614 min

The House on Sunday: Anti-slavery law uses new rule to bypass ballot

May 2, 202614 min

MPs probe BSA’s role in the digital era

Apr 30, 20265 min

New prisoner segregation rules get ‘dignity, not sympathy’ response from MPs

Apr 29, 20265 min

Question Time begins with a showdown between a Minister and..... a Minister?

Apr 28, 20265 min

House on Sunday: Politics spills over into the House throughout the week

Apr 25, 202610 min

The General Debate: Open mic night at Parliament

Apr 23, 20265 min

Ministers brought back on task for Annual Review debate

Apr 22, 20265 min

Responsibility and porkies: When party politics bleeds into Parliament

Apr 21, 20264 min

The Victorian Parliament: Amid slum, disease, fire and illegal demolition

Apr 18, 202615 min

Citizens assemblies: an alternative to select committees?

Apr 12, 202613 min

The House on Sunday: Fish fights and satire rights

Apr 4, 20269 min

Ep 777MPs debate taking the Mickey

This week, MPs debated a bill to protect parody and satire, the right to take the mickey under New Zealand’s copyright law, something they themselves may well be the target of.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Apr 2, 20264 min