General Politics Videos

MPs put in a thirty-hour week after Government puts the House under urgency to pass its revised emissions trading scheme legislation and eight other bills. Opposition attacks on National's emissions trading scheme and its reliance on the Maori Party ...

More criticism of Treasury's emissions trading scheme cost estimates, this time from their own minister, Bill English. Labour MPs take offence after Paula Bennett claims they are sick and tired of hearing about child abuse.

Parliament congratulates All Whites on qualifying for Football World Cup finals in South Africa, welcomes new Green MP David Clendon as Sue Bradford's replacement, and spends the week skirmishing around National's revised Emissions Trading Scheme ...

Finance minister Bill English and his Labour shadow, David Cunliffe, play dancing with the stars as TVNZ's controversial "Plain English" programme promotion gets hauled over the coals in the chamber and the committee rooms. John Key goes too far in his ...

Parliament resumes after a fortnight's adjournment, welcomes David Clendon as Sue Bradford's replacement for the Greens, congratulates the All Whites on beating Bahrain, and gets into a shouting match over the cost of the emissions trading scheme with ...

Breakfast With Spanky On Christchurch’s RDU 98.5FM. Russel Norman joined us on the show this morning to give his opinion on whether Hone should get the boot from the Maori Party. In some ways they’re not too different- the Greens and Hone - ...

Scoop's Selwyn Manning and Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey discuss how pressure continues to mount on Maori Party MP Hone Harawira even after he apologised for the racial slur in a private email. Does this smell of Nat-Whip Spirit?

The second week of adjournment saw only two Select Committees open to the public. The Finance and Expenditure Committee heard from Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard, who gave evidence to the Committee's inquiry into the Reserve Bank's Financial Stability ...

KiwiFM: Manning & Wallace discuss why Hide's romantic junket is more offensive than Harawira's slur against Pakeha Kiwis. And what's the total amount of expenses charged to his ministerial credit card? What's the cost of the hotel bills, restaurant bills, ...

Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey on Govt Minister Rodney Hide apologising for 'casual use' of tax payers' money. Will it get him off the hook? Also, Maori Party MP Hone Harawira is in hot water after using racist slurs against white NZers in an email. ...

Radio Adelaide: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey discuss how NZ's PM John Key is not planning on heading to Copenhagen for the December climate change conference & appears to be dithering on climate change solutions. Also, MMP is under pressure!

Wallace Chapman & Selwyn Manning discuss how a NZ Herald Digipol showed 49 % of those surveyed want MMP to go. Is it fueled by dissatisfaction with politicians? Also, the 2009 Melbourne Cup is set to run tomorrow. NZ's favorite is a mare called Daffodil.

Nick Smith finally gets his ACC bill off to a select committee, supported by the Maori Party for its first reading with ACT promising to go all the way. Government puts the House under urgency for sixth week in a row, but again fails to make the ...

Bill English stands in for John Key to answer questions from around the chamber about ACC, the foreshore and seabed, Crown debt and privatisation of water supplies which Local Government Minister, Rodney Hide, swears is not on the cards. Bill English ...

MPs miss out on chance to debate their bills as Government puts House under urgency for sixth week in a row. Government blames media for delaying arrival of ministers in the chamber for Question Time. Opposition wants more information on TVNZ's use ...

National finally gets its ACC bill up for a first reading but only after third-ranked cabinet minister Gerry Brownlee has to answer a barrage of hostile questions about open ACC's workers account to competition.

95bFM Audio: Scoop's Lyndon Hood joins us this week with an outline of the changes to backroom functions at DHBs, and a whinge of the (5) weeks over the government's use of urgency.

House under urgency for fifth sitting week in a row but still no sign of Government's ACC Bill. News of ACT's support for bill makes its inroduction likely next week to get it off to a select committee before Parliament starts a two-week adjournment ...