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4:50 AM.Budget Day and Bill English's eighth overshadows proceedings, from questions to ministers to the General Debate. The Speaker, David Carter, warns members that reading their speeches in the General… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.Budget Week begins with a Question Time dominated by the housing shortage as the Opposition tries unsuccessfully to get the prime minister to admit that it has reached crisis point. Building and… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Parliament resumes at 2pm on Tuesday. Deputy leader of the House, Simon Bridges, previews the week ahead, culminating in Bill English's presentation on Thursday of his eighth Budget. Members day on… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Bill passes first reading and is sent off to the Foreign Affairs, Defence & Trade Committee; Three bill pass final readings: one extending the time that… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Bill passes first reading by 62 votes to 59, with Labour's Phil Goff crossing the floor to vote in favour of the bill; New Zealand Public Health and… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.Only one question about tax havens and foreign trusts and Revenue Minister, Michael Woodhouse, claims to have answered it already - several times. Finance Minister, Bill English, faces Labour… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.One more Question Time at 2pm before Parliament adjourns for a week, back on Tuesday 24 May for a four-week stint including the Budget. John Key becomes the first prime minister to be thrown out of… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.John Key becomes the first prime minister to be thrown out of the debating chamber since Margaret Wilson ordered Helen Clark to leave in June 2005. Mister Key got carried away when answering questions… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Taxation (Residential Land Withholding Tax, GST on Online Services, and Student Loans) Bill passes final reading by 109 votes to 12 with only New Zealand First opposed; Social Security Legislation… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.Prime Minister, John Key, comes to Question Time armed with fresh data from Panama Papers showing New Zealand's involvement with foreign trusts is much less than claimed by the Opposition. Among… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Opposition parties combine to give Labour's Healthy Homes Guarantee bill a first reading by 61 votes to 60. Minor parties honour formal agreements to vote with John Key's National government on issues… Read more Audio

5:47 AM.Local Government and Environment Committee hears submissions on the Resource Legislation Amendment Bill from Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Jan Wright as well as former MPs Chris… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.More complaints about the length of ministers' answers to questions. Labour's housing spokesman, Phil Twyford, follows up on the auditor-general's report on the inquiry that he requested into the… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.Andrew Little's Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2) passes first reading by 61 votes to 60 - with the support of Labour, the Greens, New Zealand First, the Maori Party and United Future's Peter Dunne… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.Government uses Question Time to get out some good news on jobs and Pharmac while the Opposition tries to turn good news into bad news. Amy Adams and Jo Goodhew defend their prime minister's… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Members' Day will feature two third readings followed by the first reading of Andrew Little's bill which is a retread of Phil Twyford's Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill that was pipped at the post at its… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.Bad start to the week for the New Zealand First party as their leader, Winston Peters, follows his transport spokesman, Denis O'Rourke, out the door, after the Speaker loses patience with the length… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Deputy Leader of the House, Simon Bridges, previews the week ahead. Two members' bills on Wednesday could have the numbers to cause a headache for the government. Reesh Lyon reports on the Foreign… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.With Parliament on a two-week adjournment, the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee hears submissions on the TPPA, we speak with Deputy Speaker Chester Borrows about this year's Speaker's… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Health Minister Jonathan Coleman and his Labour shadow Annette King square off in question time and the annual review debate; Te Pire mo Te Reo Maori Maori Language Bill passes final reading; New… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Three treaty settlement bills pass first readings, while the Maori Language Bill passes its final reading by 104 votes to 11; Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee hears submissions on the TPPA… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.New Zealand First MPs follow their deputy leader out the door after Jonathan Coleman, answering Ron Mark's questions about protection of fisheries, calls him a cook and Mister Mark responds by calling… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.House begins 10-hour Annual Review Debate, with a contribution from Finance & Expenditure Committee chairman David Bennett leading Assistant Speaker Trevor Mallard to remind MPs of the parameters of… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.Prime Minister, John Key, emerges unscathed from a fresh hail of questions about tax havens, spiced with exposure of a link to a legal specialist in foreign trusts among his pecuniary interests. Of… Read more Audio

4:50 AM.Government faces more questions about tax havens and money laundering in light of last week's "Panama Papers" leak; Other questions to ministers range from rising sea levels to hospital waiting lists… Read more Audio