Extended version of the Week in Parliament with Reesh Lyon and Tom Frewen, including interviews with the clerk of the House, David Wilson, on parliamentary scrutiny of treaties, and Epsom ACT MP, David Seymour, on a member’s bill to make him accountable under the OIA. Also excerpts from Tuesday’s Question Time.

The second week of the two-week adjournment sees only one select committee meeting – that was the Finance and Expenditure which met on Tuesday to consider the Taxation (Bright-line Test for Residential Land) Bill – and for a briefing on on the progress of Inland Revenue Department’s Business Transformation programme. With that meeting closed to […]

The House is adjourned for two weeks, and with no Select Committees held, Reesh Lyon takes a look at the lack of workload before Committees; Meanwhile, Tom Frewen looks into Green MP Mojo Mather’s concerns about television captioning – and speaks with Assistant Clerk of the House Suze Jones about plans for the captioning of […]

Week in the House dominated by urgency for passage of the New Zealand Flag Referendums Amendment Bill – adding the “Red Peak” design to the upcoming referendum; Assistant Speaker Trevor Mallard takes issue with statements made by National’s Nick Smith – an incident culminating in Mr Smith’s ejection from the Chamber; South Korean Free Trade […]