The House

The last episode of The House for this year is an opportunity to look back at some of the goings-on in Parliament that we covered in 2022.

It's been an unusual day at Parliament. President Zelensky became the first national leader to address the House, and then MPs travelled in time. At least on paper.

It is Parliament's final week but there are still bills sitting under the tree for MPs to debate, and some history to make with a Ukrainian President.

MPs often talk green, but Parliament is lowering its carbon footprint with hundreds of surreptitious solar panels; and providing a much wanted excuse to climb onto the roof.

Parliament began its final sitting block of the year this week by cancelling a reservation it made two weeks ago. No, it wasn't for a Christmas function. It was confusing, but we can help with that.

Parliament's year is rapidly nearing an end, and the Government has this week been focused on completion of three fairly major pieces of legislation.

Five MPs travelled to Westport as part of a Parliamentary Outreach Programme aimed at connecting New Zealanders throughout the country with Parliament and its processes.

Parliament Journalist Phil Smith has a crack at making a submission to MPs. Here is why you should bother, how you do it, how you really shouldn't, and how his went.

In a week when Parliament sat under urgency, across four long Tuesdays, quite a lot of legislative business has been progressed.

There's been a distinct niggly energy about the exchanges in the House this week, and it's got something to do with the fact Parliament is sitting under urgency.

The holidays may be coming, but Parliament is winding up for looks likely to be its biggest week of the year.

Parliament is this week to sit under urgency as the Government seeks additional sitting hours to clear a backlog of legislation that it wants to progress.

"An incredibly diverse and eclectic collection", the Parliamentary Collection has great art, black rods, protest bricks, bodily parts and much more.

Parliament makes a rare step and amends a reserved provision of electoral law - something designed to be hard to achieve.

A former Prime Minister has warned MPs they face a daunting challenge to maintain public confidence in the Parliament system in the age of disinformation.