Parliament Ends Long Urgency Session

by Editor on Saturday, May 18, 2013 — 7:15 PM

A marathon urgency session has ended at 7.14pm on Saturday with the passage into law of a bill hiking petrol taxes. [click to continue…]

To The Midnight Hour

by Editor on Friday, May 17, 2013 — 11:59 PM

The House sat through Friday night under Urgency rules and will resume on Saturday morning to debate changes to the Crown Minerals Act and a bill lifting fuel taxes.
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Parliament Resumes To Pass Budget Bills

by Editor on Friday, May 17, 2013 — 5:00 PM

The House sat on Friday under Urgency rules to debate a number of Budget related bills.
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MPs Briefed On United Nations

by Editor (Friday, May 17, 2013 — 3:52 PM)

The Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee receives a briefing on UN reform and NZ’s bid for a security council seat.

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Busy Week – Budget, Bills And Blue

by Editor (Friday, May 17, 2013 — 3:02 PM)

Finance Minister Bill English delivers his fifth budget.

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Urgency Progress

by Editor (Thursday, May 16, 2013 — 10:00 PM)

A bill aimed at helping with Auckland’s housing shortage by fast tracking land supply has progressed under Urgency.

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Urgency Motion

by Editor (Thursday, May 16, 2013 — 5:39 PM)

The House went into urgency to debate Budget related legislation ranging from increasing petrol prices through to freeing up land for housing in Auckland. The Urgency motion covers:

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Bill English’s Fifth Budget And Debate In Reply

by Editor (Thursday, May 16, 2013 — 5:05 PM)

Bill English delivers his fifth Budget as Finance Minister.

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House Goes Into Urgency

by Editor (Thursday, May 16, 2013 — 4:59 PM)

The House has gone into urgency to debate Budget related legislation ranging from increasing petrol prices through to increasing land supply for housing in Auckland.

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Budget And Bills

by Editor (Thursday, May 16, 2013 — 2:16 PM)

When Parliament resumed at 2pm a number of select committee reports were presented.

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Drawn From The Ballot

by Editor (Thursday, May 16, 2013 — 12:14 PM)

The following two bills were drawn from the Members’ bills ballot this morning:

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Budget Day And Urgency

by Editor (Thursday, May 16, 2013 — 10:13 AM)

Budget 2013 will be delivered in the House at 2 p.m.

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Members Bills Progress, Blue Says Goodbye

by Editor (Wednesday, May 15, 2013 — 10:00 PM)

A bill banning gang patches in public building has made progress in Parliament.

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Grilling Over MMP Ahead Of Budget

by Editor (Wednesday, May 15, 2013 — 4:30 PM)

Government faces a grilling over its plan to ignore the MMP review.

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Questions and Answers – May 15

by Editor (Wednesday, May 15, 2013 — 4:02 PM)

QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS Budget 2013—Job Creation and Growth 1. TODD McCLAY (National—Rotorua) to the Minister of Finance: How will the Budget continue the Government’s ongoing programme to deliver jobs and growth for the New Zealand economy?

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Ministers Should Take Political Responsibility: Carter

by Editor (Wednesday, May 15, 2013 — 2:12 PM)

Ministers should answer written questions properly and not hide behind the technicality that legally departments were responsible for operational matters, Speaker David Carter said today.

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Questions For Oral Answer – May 15

by Editor (Wednesday, May 15, 2013 — 12:15 PM)

QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 1. TODD McCLAY to the Minister of Finance: How will the Budget continue the Government’s ongoing programme to deliver jobs and growth for the New Zealand economy?

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