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The Week In Parliament 08.10.10
Friday, 8 October 2010, 5:19 pm | Tom Frewen
Although parliament was adjourned this week, the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee heard submissions on the Employment Relations (No 2) and Holidays Amendment Bills. More >>
The Week In Parliament 01.10.10
Friday, 1 October 2010, 3:55 pm | Tom Frewen
Although parliament was adjourned this week, the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee heard submissions on the Employment Relations (No 2) and Holidays Amendment Bills. More >>
Today In Parliament 23.09.10
Thursday, 23 September 2010, 5:32 pm | Tom Frewen
Questions of ethics continue to plague Local Government Minister, Rodney Hide. Moving on from David Garrett and the false passport Labour attacks Mister Hide over the role of former National party president, Michelle Boag, who's campaigning for John ... More >>
Today In Parliament 22.09.10
Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 5:31 pm | Tom Frewen
Speaker gives green light for Labour to question the prime minister about Rodney Hide's handling of the admission by his law and order spokesman, David Garrett, that he'd committed identity theft to get a false passport. Overexcited National backbenchers ... More >>
Today In Parliament 21.09.10
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 5:18 pm | Tom Frewen
Question Time bogs down in 45-minute wrangle as government tries to protect the prime minister from questions about his faith in Rodney Hide's judgment. Labour exploits Paul Qunin's embarrassment over his bill coming back from the Law and Order committee ... More >>
The Week In Parliament 17.09.10
Friday, 17 September 2010, 4:29 pm | Tom Frewen
Parliament passes the Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Bill - giving sweeping powers to speed up the recovery programme in the region. National's replacement to the Foreshore and Seabed Act - The Marine and Coastal Areas (Takutai Moana) Bill ... More >>
Today In Parliament 16.09.10
Thursday, 16 September 2010, 5:46 pm | Tom Frewen
Good news for Canterbury as state of emergency ends and government promises to replace fallen chimneys with more efficient, cleaner home heating systems. Bill to raise minimum driving age to sixteen has first reading and Reserve Bank Governor, Alan ... More >>
Today In Parliament 15.09.10
Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 5:53 pm | Tom Frewen
ACT MP David Garrett admits to using a trick from The Day of the Jackal to obtain a false passport over 20 years ago. He was found out and discharged without conviction but says it was the worst mistake of his life. Labour wants to know what the government ... More >>
Today In Parliament 14.09.10
Tuesday, 14 September 2010, 5:55 pm | Tom Frewen
Parliament rushes through special legislation to speed the recovery from the Canterbury earthquake. Parties agree to sit late into the night if necessary to pass the bill through all its stages, without the need for the government to put the House under ... More >>
The Week In Parliament 10.09.10
Tuesday, 14 September 2010, 2:26 pm | Tom Frewen
Parliament resumes for a week dominated by the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquake. Tuesday's Question Time abandoned as parties unite to support earthquake victims and mourn the loss of nine lives in a plane crash at Fox Glacier. Temporary truce ... More >>
Today In Parliament 09.09.10
Thursday, 9 September 2010, 5:56 pm | Tom Frewen
Ministers use questions from their own backbenchers to report on their departments' responses to the Canterbury earthquake. Commerce Committee hears submissions on the TVNZ Amendment Bill. More >>
Today In Parliament 08.09.10
Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 6:22 pm | Tom Frewen
Parliament gets first chance to debate demise of South Canterbury Finance. Government faces questions about the Christchurch earthquake. National MP for Selwyn, Amy Adams, gives personal account of the quake. More >>
Today In Parliament 07.09.10
Tuesday, 7 September 2010, 5:21 pm | Tom Frewen
Opposition forgoes Question Time and the Prime Minister cancels his trip to Britain and France as Parliament responds to the Canterbury earthquake and the Fox Glacier plane crash. More >>
The Week In Parliament 03.09.10
Friday, 3 September 2010, 5:26 pm | Tom Frewen
Parliament's back on Tuesday after a week's adjournment but Tom Frewen and Reesh Lyon report that there's little chance of the Government securing Opposition support for a move to get through more business by having the House sit on Thursday mornings. More >>
Tom Frewen: The Week In Parliament 27.08.10
Friday, 27 August 2010, 5:39 pm | Tom Frewen
Parliament spends most of the week under urgency, passing seven bills and sending three more off to select committees. Speaker Lockwood Smith throws Labour's Trevor Mallard out of the chamber for the third time. Urgency meant he should have been ... More >>
Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 26.08.10
Thursday, 26 August 2010, 5:01 pm | Tom Frewen
Government boasts of fewer prison escapers while Opposition points to big increase in beneficiaries. Labour MPs delight in rubbishing new consumer affairs minister and ACT deputy leader, John Boscawen, by comparing him unfavourably with his predecessor ... More >>
Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 25.08.10
Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 5:06 pm | Tom Frewen
Speaker adds CDs to the list of things he's banned from being tabled in the chamber, until reminded that he already allowed the tabling of a DVD earlier in the year. Finance and Expenditure Committee looks at how to manage child support debt. More >>
Today In Parliament 24.08.10
Tuesday, 24 August 2010, 6:10 pm | Tom Frewen
Tom Frewen: Labour's Trevor Mallard is thrown out again as Question Time bogs down in a lengthy wrangle over the quality of both the questions and the answers. More >>
The Week In Parliament 20.08.10
Friday, 20 August 2010, 3:54 pm | Tom Frewen
Tom Frewen: Bill English and John Key both run into trouble with the Speaker. Labour is granted a snap debate on Heather Roy's resignation as deputy leader of the Act Party. The termination of Chris Carter's membership of the Labour Party's parliamentary ... More >>
Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 19.08.10
Thursday, 19 August 2010, 6:07 pm | Tom Frewen
Labour's attempts to exploit rifts in the ACT party creates lengthy wrangle in Question Time and tests the patience of the Speaker. Professor Tom Babor, from the University of Conneticut, makes a submission on the Sale and Supply of Liquor and Liquor Enforcement ... More >>
