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Tom Frewen: Week In Parliament, Ending 31.07.09
Friday, 31 July 2009, 2:24 pm | Tom Frewen
Maori Language Week in the House; Labour turns up the heat on Paula Bennett for releasing private details of two beneficiaries; ACT's David Garrett accused of intimidating prison guards making a submission on private management of gaols bill. More >>
Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament - 30.07.09
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 4:48 pm | Tom Frewen
Relations between Government and Opposition hit new low as National blocks request from Labour's Trevor Mallard for chance to refute deputy prime minister Bill English's allegation. More questions for Paula Bennett while Corrections Minister Judith Collins ... More >>
Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 29/7/09
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 5:05 pm | Tom Frewen
Rocky start to Day Two of Maori Language Week in the House; Gerry Brownlee ticked off by the Speaker; Labour turns up the heat on Paula Bennett for releasing info on solo mums. More >>
Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament - 28.07.09
Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 4:52 pm | Tom Frewen
Speaker kicks off Maori Language week in the House with the prayer; Phil Goff evens the score with John Key in Question Time; Paula Bennett admits she didn't check her facts before releasing financial details of solo mums More >>
Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament - 24.07.09
Friday, 24 July 2009, 4:27 pm | Tom Frewen
David Shearer sworn in; Labour raises plight of individuals in questions to ministers; Don Brash's appointment to chair 20-25 commission attacked in General Debate. More >>
Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament - 23.07.09
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 5:24 pm | Tom Frewen
Justice Minister Simon Power announces decision to abolish defence of provocation, thwarting Lianne Dalziel's attempt to make the change with her member's bill. Finance Minister Bill English angered by Labour's surprise question linking folic acid decision ... More >>
Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament - 22.07.09
Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 4:55 pm | Tom Frewen
Prime Minister warns Phil Goff to check his facts before playing politics with one of his constituents while Labour raises the plight of other individuals with Social Development and Employment Minister Paula Bennett. Speaker rejects Labour's request ... More >>
Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament - 21.07.09
Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 4:48 pm | Tom Frewen
Parliament returns from fortnight's adjournment. David Shearer is sworn in, bringing numbers back up to 122 in the chamber. Questions to ministers focus on jobs while Kate Atkinson is asked about deferral of folic acid in bread. Maori Affairs Minister ... More >>
Tom Frewen: The Week In Parliament 17.07.09
Friday, 17 July 2009, 2:33 pm | Tom Frewen
Preview of what's coming up when Parliament resumes on Tuesday; select committees in Auckland hearing submissions on the new super council and in Christchurch with bills to combat boy racers; the death of former cabinet minister, Bill Young, prompts ... More >>
Tom Frewen: The Week In Parliament 10/07/09
Friday, 10 July 2009, 3:56 pm | Tom Frewen
Work begins on hearing some of the 2500 submissions received on the bill to sort out representation and powers on Auckland's new council and boards. Special committee established to hear submissions splits into two an travels around Auckland with chairmen ... More >>
Tom Frewen: The Week In Parliament 03.07.09
Friday, 3 July 2009, 4:20 pm | Tom Frewen
Ministers point to hard times in response to Opposition complaints about the impact of budget cuts on jobs and training programmes; wedding bells for the Speaker, Lockwood Smith. More >>
Today In Parliament: 02.07.09
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 5:12 pm | Tom Frewen
Wedding Bells for Speaker, Lockwood Smith. Health Minister questioned about water quality. Finance minister has bad news for public servants hoping for a pay rise. More >>
Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 01.07.09
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 5:05 pm | Tom Frewen
John Key and Bill English lose point of order battle in Question Time; Labour wins right to have a snap debate on job cuts in social welfare. More >>
Today In Parliament: 30.06.09
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 4:21 pm | Tom Frewen
Prime Minister continues to google up Phil Goff's quotes from the past while his Labour Minister, Kate Wilkinson, overcooks it with one answer in Question Time. Trevor Mallard fails to get Education Minister Anne Tolley to reveal her stance on using ... More >>
Tom Frewen: The Week In Parliament - 26/6/09
Friday, 26 June 2009, 4:30 pm | Tom Frewen
Trevor Mallard gets thown out of the chamber for a second time and narrowly avoids being "named". But did he really call the prime minister a liar? Government goes too far with strategy of blaming everything on the last government when Bill English ... More >>
Today In Parliament: 25.06.09
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 4:33 pm | Tom Frewen
Squabbling over minister's answers to opposition questions continues with surprise twist when the Speaker upholds Labour's complaint that the Finance Minister failed to answer a patsy question from one of his own backbenchers More >>
Today In Parliament: 24.06.09
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 4:59 pm | Tom Frewen
Opposition leader, Phil Goff, ridicules the small number of jobs saved by the nine-day fortnight. The Prime Minister hits back by recalling high unemployment in the late nineteen eighties when Mister Goff was minister of labour. Social Welfare minister, ... More >>
Today In Parliament: 23.06.09
Tuesday, 23 June 2009, 4:54 pm | Tom Frewen
Health minister updates House on swine flu, Prime Minister accuses Trevor Mallard of calling him a liar and Mallard ordered out of chamber for the second time More >>
The Week In Parliament: Week Ending 19.06.09
Friday, 19 June 2009, 4:25 pm | Tom Frewen
Government defeats no-confidence motion at end of Budget Debate. Richard Worth resigns, Cam Calder takes his place on National benches. Bradford and Boscowan unsuccessful with members bills on smacking referendum. Liquor advertising bill defeated. More >>
Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 18.06.09
Thursday, 18 June 2009, 4:31 pm | Tom Frewen
Tension in the chamber as Labour accuses the Speaker of favouring the Government. Pete Hodgson has more questions aimed at finding out why John Key lost confidence in Richard Worth but, although the Speaker says he will look at the issue, Lockwood ... More >>
