The Standing Orders committee continues its triennial review of Parliament's rules and hears from a former PM.

Question time was pushed back on Wednesday this week so that the House could address the report of the Independent Police ...

The Regulatory Standards Board will be established, and over time will start assessing legislation. Stakeholders-especially ...

Labour is accusing the Government or breaching parliamentary rules to push the latest fast-track law through Parliament ...

New Zealand’s government has announced changes to firearms laws Tuesday which include ending police officer involvement in ...

The Government has confirmed police will soon begin checking drivers for THC (cannabis), methamphetamine, MDMA (ecstasy) and ...

MPs will delay the start of Question Time today to hold a debate on revelations police covered up for disgraced former Deputy ...

Four-year political terms and 170 MPs are two suggestions made by a New Zealand political think tank to improve Parliament’s efficiency. In the New Zealand Initiative’s new report, MMP after 30 years, ...

Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Consitutional Lawyer Annette Sykes had also launched a scathing attack on the Regulatory Standards ...

The controversial law was supposed to come into force in December last year but the latest proposal would see its ...

A typical energy project in New Zealand still takes 8-10 years to go from proposal to power. In Australia or Canada, it’s ...

The new law introduces stringent mechanisms to make the cost and logic of government regulation visible to the public, curtailing what Seymour described as “lazy thinking” in lawmaking and setting a ...