Echo Chamber: The week parliament pushed away the public
Dog, hog or whoever’s breakfast it is, it’s hard to not feel like a mess after a week…
Echo Chamber: Act gets a big win, and ‘everything is ka pai’ for Winston
The Regulatory Standards Bill passed into law, the House got two independent MPs, and Chlöe Swarbrick got serenaded…
Echo Chamber: Burn, baby, burn the bill
Lighting shit on fire isn’t the worst thing that’s happened on the parliamentary steps, but it is a…
Echo Chamber: A controversial bill is overshadowed by Te Pāti Māori’s turmoil
While you were distracted by the grumblings around Te Pāti Māori and the prime minister’s polling, parliament managed…
Echo Chamber: Winston Peters gets his groove back
The foreign affairs minister may have the most famous window in all of New Zealand, and it put…
Echo Chamber: Todd Stephenson’s big break
The little-known Act MP had a rare opportunity to ask three patsy questions – and gave a performance…
Echo Chamber: The interminable rage of Chlöe Swarbrick
The exasperated Greens co-leader reached the end of her tether as parliament debated nurses’ pay, homelessness, Palestinian statehood…
Echo Chamber: So, who’s to blame for the cost of living?
In question time, sometimes a question is not really a question. Or is it? Echo Chamber is The…
Echo Chamber: Chris Hipkins, you frickin’ smart-arse sausage roll eater
The Labour leader has been getting up to his old tricks again (complaining about FamilyBoost and butter). Echo…