The House

The House

Legislation, issues and insights from Parliament.

Latest Episode

MPs hash out the details of abuse in state care legislation (09.10.2025)

Previous Episodes

  • Good MPs make great quiz team members 08.10.2025
  • Groundhog Day as Peter’s delivers third Ministerial Statement on Gaza 07.10.2025
  • The third branch: Parliament's relationship with the courts 04.10.2025
  • Inside the Beehive’s emergency command bunker 27.09.2025
  • Government gets urgent on adoption 20.09.2025
  • MPs celebrate Māori language week by arguing in te reo 18.09.2025
  • Government passes adoption bill under urgency 17.09.2025
  • Moves from the Question Time playbook 16.09.2025
  • Politics vs Governance: The Budget finale 13.09.2025
  • The four month journey to budget approval 10.09.2025
  • Parliament’s workload and pace squeezing out committees 09.09.2025
  • The House on Sunday: Parliament's local MP 06.09.2025
  • A Tikanga for Parliament 30.08.2025
  • The House on Sunday: slow government lawmaking and suggestions of lying 23.08.2025
  • Lies, damn lies and parliamentary debate 21.08.2025
  • Opposition backbench passes more bills than National backbench 20.08.2025
  • Parliament this week: ETS reform, stalking, and spying 19.08.2025
  • Spine and Punishment: A review of Swarbrick v Brownlee 16.08.2025
  • Political distractions dominate while the House chips away at lawmaking 14.08.2025
  • More rates and more debt: MPs hear from Auditor General on Local Councils 13.08.2025

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