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PM confirms election date
New Zealand will go to the polls on September 23, Prime Minister Bill English announced this afternoon.
New Zealand will go to the polls on September 23, Prime Minister Bill English announced this afternoon.
Political Roundup: Should politicians be free to hop in and out of elected office when it suits their career interests?
COMMENT: Former Clerk of the House David McGee is recommending that resigning list MPs not be replaced by the next willing candidate on their party list.
David McGee, a former Clerk of the House, made an appeal for new rules to keep MPs in their seats for a full term yesterday in Herald.
COMMENT: Former Clerk of Parliament David McGee says list MPs should not be replaced and electorate MPs should be bonded.
Resignations by MPs has been pronounced since MMP began in 1996, of both of list and constituency MPs.
A Ngapuhi kaumatua says the Prime Minister should not "run away" from Waitangi Day commemorations.
Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye speaks about the positives following a "gruelling few months" since her breast cancer diagnosis.
COMMENT: New PM finally gets to sit in the "highest-backed chair" at Cabinet unveiling.
Parliament has wound up for the year with a ukulele-playing Maori Party winning the show, despite tough competition from the party leaders.
Paula Bennett talks to political editor Audrey Young about her new backroom role with the National Party caucus.
Bill English has given the new Deputy Prime Minister a special role in involving National's backbench more in the party.
COMMENT: Incoming PM gave a hugely impressive performance at his first press conference, writes Audrey young.
COMMENT: For a decade National didn't have to think about a leader, now they will be scrambling to make sense of it all, writes Barry Soper.
All Blacks tests would have to be broadcast on free-to-air television under a proposed law change to be debated by Parliament.
Judith Collins has laid out her policy agenda if she is elected Prime Minister.
COMMENT: Opposition parties are hoping that their own version of the Brexit-Trump contagion will take grip in New Zealand.
Confusion reigned as ridesharing giant Uber appeared at a Parliamentary committee today.
Labour MP Trevor Mallard is the latest victim of notorious electronic bollards at Parliament.
New aerial photos show there is much work to be done after Monday's 7.8 quake.
COMMENT: John Key plans to take his opportunity to ask questions about Trans Pacific Partnership.
Tauranga MP Simon Bridges is one of the few people working in Wellington's central business district following a large 7.5 earthquake
There are casualties following this morning's quakes, acting Civil Defence minister Gerry Brownlee says.
Auckland mayoral candidate Chloe Swarbrick has announced a shift to national politics.
The spying watchdog has urged Parliament to "tighten up" the warranting regime for New Zealand's intelligence agencies.
Property and farming rich listers are among those who have made big donations to National over the past year.
Spark is critical of spying laws which leave it up to the company whether to volunteer information about its customers.
Parliament has been told that its debate on assisted dying could encourage suicides.
Former Labour Leader David Cunliffe is leaving Parliament.