Legal Services Bill: First Reading
Tomorrow marks the occasion of 20 years since the Bill of Rights landed on the New Zealand judiciary, and that’s important because the Bill of Rights, together with the 1993 Human Rights Act – and the nation’s founding document, – Te Tiriti o Waitangi – provide the framework for a strong and evolving constitutional discussion, [...]
Appropriation (2010/11 Estimates) Bill, Hon Bill English, 3R taken with Imprest Supply (Second for 2010), Hon Bill English, 2R (3 hour debate)
Speaker – exactly 150 years ago to this very day, on the third of August 1860, on behalf of a gathering of chiefs at Kohimarama, Tamihana Te Rauparaha presented a petition to the Native Secretary asking that the Conference of the Maori Chiefs of New Zealand be established and made permanent, while at the other [...]
