House on Sunday: A scavenger hunt, a Treaty bill, and an annual health check
This Sunday edition of the House is a compilation of the week's reporting, including: a Question Time naughtiness scavenger hunt, the Annual Review debate on Health, and the very unusual death of a Government bill — the Treaty bill. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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The unusual death of the Treaty bill
Members' bills die ugly deaths regularly, but I can find no record in recent history of a government bill sent into the House to suffer the indignity of a negative vote. It was either unusually masochistic or the outcome of poor political judgement. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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5:37
Verrall and Brown go tit-for-tat in health annual review debate
Despite this years' budget only a month away, the Government still have t's to cross i's to dot in regard to spending from previous years. The annual review debate is the final stage in that very long process. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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5:33
A Question Time Scavenger Hunt
Arguments, inferences, imputations, epithets, ironical expressions, or expressions of opinion.
It's not a lost verse from The Sound of Music's 'My Favourite Things'. It's a partial list of things Question Time questions cannot include. There are also some must-haves; and separate requirements for answers.
The House goes on a scavenger hunt, to find examples inside one Question Time.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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5:09
Behind the door at a parliamentary privilege hearing
Parliament’s Privileges Committee has been a major source of news over the last few weeks. What is privilege, and how does the committee typically work?
...and because this is a Sunday episode of the House, it also includes a replay of Wednesday's episode on leniency towards MPs 'schoolyard stupidity' during Question Time.
Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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