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7:30 AM.This is the last Week in Parliament for 2016. Audio

5:45 AM.Parliament adjourns after a good natured final debate and festive question time with musical accompaniment from Maori Party co-leaders Marama Fox and Te Ururoa Flavell. Social Services Committee… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.Parliament adjourns for the year, back on Tuesday 7 February 2017. Final Question Time for 2016 and Adjournment Debate featuring Marama Fox with Te Ururua Flavell on the ukulele. Audio

5:45 AM.David Shearer delivers his valedictory speech, saying farewell to Parliament after nearly seven and a half years as Labour's MP for Mt Albert. Child poverty and deprivation dominate the first… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.Child poverty and Pike River dominate first Question Time for Bill English as prime minister, sitting in the National frontbench seat formerly occupied by John Key. First bill put up for debate by… Read more Audio

7:32 AM.A round up of the week in Parliament Audio

7:30 AM.An exciting and historic week in the House after Prime Minister, John Key, announces his intention to resign after eight years. Audio

5:45 AM.The Leader of the House, Gerry Brownlee, says the House will start the long summer break next Wednesday at the end of the Adjournment Debate. Hinaya Ahu reports on the Local Government and Environment… Read more Audio

6:30 PM.MPs take a break from speculating about John Key's successor as National Party leader and Prime Minister to pass the Hurunui/Kaikoura Earthquakes Recovery Bill through all its remaining stages. The… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.A long day in the House beginning at 9am with debate on two treaty settlement bills. Local Government and Environment Committee meets into the night to try and finish their report on the… Read more Audio

6:55 PM.Opposition interest in National's three-legged race to find a replacement for John Key as their party leader and prime minister dominates Question Time and the General Debate. Questions include some… Read more Audio

4:45 AM.Health Select Committee gets another hot potato in the form of a bill giving DHBs the power to decide whether local drinking water supplies in their areas are fluoridated. Associate health minister… Read more Audio

6:55 PM.New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, gets his request for a snap debate on John Key's resignation in ahead of Opposition leader, Andrew Little. The Speaker, David Carter, grants the request… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.The Key administration's go-to quake response minister, Gerry Brownlee, dominates the week in the House, shepherding three bills through the House as the Government's response to the Kaikoura… Read more Audio

4:45 AM.House adjourned until Tuesday when it will start the penultimate sitting week for the year, previewed by the Leader of the House, Gerry Brownlee, who said next Wednesday will be another members' day… Read more Audio

6:55 PM.Third quake bill - the Hurunui/Kaikoura Earthquakes Recovery Bill - introduced, given a first reading and sent to the Local Government and Environment Committee with instructions to report it back by… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Urgency expected after Question Time to pass the Hurunui/Kaikoura Earthquakes Emergency Relief Bill through all its remaining stages. NZ Breast Cancer Foundation supports 10,000-signature petition at… Read more Audio

6:55 PM.New Zealand First MPs pursue the Speaker, David Carter, over his plan to build a new ministerial building on Parliament's car park. New Zealand First's deputy leader, Ron Mark, goes too far and has to… Read more Audio

5:49 AM.Early start for MPs with the debating chamber's doors opening at nine to pass three Treaty settlement bills before 1pm, while MPs on the Local Government and Environment Committee will also start work… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.Government puts House under urgency to pass two bills in response to the Kaikoura earthquake. The first, the Hurunui/Kaikoura Earthquakes Emergency Relief Bill, was given a first reading before being… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.MPs on the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee hear submissions on the Land Transport Amendment Bill. Otaki Road Safety Group convenor, Fred MacDonald, proposes gates on station… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Week in the House dominated by the aftermath of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake which jolted the country on Monday morning; Prime Minister John Key delivers a ministerial statement on the quake on… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Parliament adjourns for a week, back on Tuesday 29 November, for a final three-week sitting period. Leader of the House, Gerry Brownlee, non-committal on prospect of urgency to pass emergency… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.Civil Defence Minister, Gerry Brownlee, explains the significance of Sunday night's Kaikoura earthquake being upgraded from magnitude 7.5 to 7.8. Building and Housing Minister, Nick Smith, faces… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Amendment Bill passes final reading with only NZ First opposed; Maritime Crimes Amendment Bill - a response to 2011's Rena disaster - passes… Read more Audio