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Just about the last thing that happens before a Parliament adjourns for an election is the Review of Standing Orders – Parliament's rules. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

The House sits down with Gerry Brownlee for a chat about some of the more significant changes proposed in this year's review of Standing Orders - Parliament's rules. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Parliament's final week has just two days to finish off government business, so it's pick and choose – win and lose. An unwelcome debate on OIA avoidance won't help. *RNZ’s The House, with insights into Parliament, legislation and issues, is made with funding from Parliament’s Office of the Clerk. Enjoy our articles or podcast at RNZ. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

The House on Sunday: The Government has deluged Parliament’s committees with work but starved them of time due to extra debates and urgency. The Justice Committee had it especially tough. Also, Louis looks at some of the bills passed into law during a long week of urgency. *RNZ’s The House, with insights into Parliament, legislation and issues, is made with funding from Parliament’s Office of the Clerk. Enjoy our articles or podcast at RNZ. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

In the 54th Parliament's penultimate week, MPs spent hours and hours debating under urgency, with eight bills crossing the third reading finish line *RNZ’s The House, with insights into Parliament, legislation and issues, is made with funding from Parliament’s Office of the Clerk. Enjoy our articles or podcast at RNZ. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Having just made his valedictory speech the night before, the House sat down with Andrew Bayly for a chat about the personal toll of being an MP Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

This week's first completed bill was enabling legislation for the India Free Trade Agreement. A bill that split the coalition and made for odd pairings. *RNZ’s The House, with insights into Parliament, legislation and issues, is made with funding from Parliament’s Office of the Clerk. Enjoy our articles or podcast at RNZ. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

With two weeks of Parliament left, the Government is squeezing in a cascade of legislation via yet another long week of urgency, when multiple contentious bills will make for a long slow week. *RNZ’s The House, with insights into Parliament, legislation and issues, is made with funding from Parliament’s Office of the Clerk. Enjoy our articles or podcast at RNZ. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Given the current slew of valedictory speeches, The House looks at what is usually said in them, or perhaps more poignantly, what's left out.  Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Parliament’s expert on its rules explains privilege, the inquiry process, and the limited options for punishment in the wake of MBIE officials being found guilty of a contempt this week. *RNZ’s The House, with insights into Parliament, legislation and issues, is made with funding from Parliament’s Office of the Clerk. Enjoy our articles or podcast at RNZ. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Outgoing Labour MP and former Deputy Speaker Greg O’Connor has something of a reputation around Parliament for his poetry. It would have come as no surprise then that he gave his valedictory entirely in rhyming verse. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

In a vividly honest farewell speech, retiring MP Paulo Garcia spoke of wonderment, joy and gratitude, but also of his own experience of hatred and violence and invisibility. *RNZ’s The House, with insights into Parliament, legislation and issues, is made with funding from Parliament’s Office of the Clerk. Enjoy our articles or podcast at RNZ. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

As the remaining weeks of the 54th Parliament tick over, MPs who have decided to step back from politics have their chance to farewell their colleagues and Parliament as an institution in the form of a valedictory statement. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

As the election nears, politics can get frantic and irrational. By contrast much of Parliament’s long week of urgency was a model of calm, with careful, unemotive discussion of RMA law. *RNZ’s The House, with insights into Parliament, legislation and issues, is made with funding from Parliament’s Office of the Clerk. Enjoy our articles or podcast at RNZ. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

After about 12 years, National's Shane Reti farewelled Parliament this week, reflecting on some of his achievements in the Health portfolio, and lamenting some of the unfinished business he couldn't quite get to Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details