Act leader David Seymour is likely to be in Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee’s bad books after he drove up Parliament’s steps in a historic Land Rover before being ordered to stop by security.

A former Crown prosecutor says a bill establishing military-style boot camps and a dedicated youth serious offender or YSO ...

The New Zealand government was threatening "to punish" Cook Islanders if the plan went ahead, its prime minister, Mark Brown, ...

Victims of litigation abuse in family court proceedings will now receive stronger protections, following the passage of a new ...

A Right to Repair Bill has its first reading in Parliament next week and if successful will mean manufacturers would need to ensure repair facilities and spare parts were made available in New Zealand ...

Te Pāti Māori will demand the establishment of a new parliamentary commissioner with the power to overrule Parliament if ...

The newest discriminatory legislation before Parliament is David Seymour’s ... blatantly racist attack on Pacific peoples by the New Zealand government’. Scoop is free for personal use ...

Genetic modification is back on the political agenda in New Zealand. The issue may not be as hotly contentious as it once was ...

Parliament has stopped short, for example, of allowing the Supreme Court of New Zealand to overturn laws - so no-one else can overturn a law that's passed by the New Zealand parliament - I don't ...

New Zealand’s 2024 foreign policy embraced deeper security alliances, but economic dependence on China remained a persistent ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand ...