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 ...

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

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

The 2026 calendar begins like 2024 and 2025, give or take the influence of wandering holidays like Easter. Again, it includes an absurd single week at the end of January that seems to say "see we're ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti ...

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, ...

Three Maori Party MPs will be temporarily banned from New Zealand’s parliament for protesting a proposed law change with a haka. A parliamentary committee has recommended the penalties, understood to ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Under the scrutiny of a black-robed official and before a hushed audience, a decorative cookie tin rattles like a bingo drum. Inside: the future of New Zealand ’s laws.

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