This week's legislative agenda began with the first reading of a bill that enables congestion charging in our cities. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Urgent debate on Bayly resignation
Before MPs got down to debating legislation this week, they spent time debating the resignation last week of National Party minister, Andrew Bayly. Responses ranged from nothing-to-see-here to what-aren't-they-telling-us.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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The Changing Sound of Politics: The voices of past PMs
Political voices have become very familiar since the beginning of radio, but they haven’t always sounded the same. Listen to 14 former Prime Ministers (and one Speaker) from 1912 to 1990. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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MPs, the public, and media get rare glimpse into intelligence community
While they didn't turn up in an Aston Martin, the heads of New Zealand's spy agencies, the GCSB and the NZSIS came to Parliament this week to give MPs, media, and the public a rare glimpse into New Zealand's intelligence community. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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It's complicated: Debating justice
Some debates at Parliament are a bit monochromatic, but not many.
In most policy areas the best descriptor is 'it’s complicated'.
The problem will be complicated, any worthwhile solutions, complicated; the politics lying between the problem and a solution... complicated. And few things are more complicated than a topic debated this week – criminal justice sentencing.
Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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