Gerry Brownlee was one of the driving forces behind the construction of the Apollo Projects Stadium in the wake of the Canterbury Earthquakes.

Parliament’s combative debating chamber descended into sorrow yesterday as MPs marked the death of Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai ...

Ahead of his election as Speaker, Brownlee wasn’t saying whether he would go of his own accord or would be dragged to the chair. Labour MP Adrian Rurawhe was Speaker of Parliament until the ...

Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp is being remembered as a “beautiful soul” dedicated to helping young people in ...

Broken down by voting preferences, more than half of Labour's supporters (51.2 percent) backed leader Chris Hipkins' view the suspensions were too harsh, but a sizeable number thought the punishment ...

The first business for Parliament this week was not Question Time, but a Ministerial Statement on the evolving Middle East ...

New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke on Thursday ...

Speaker Gerry Brownlee urged lawmakers last month to negotiate a consensus and ordered a free-ranging debate that would continue until all agreed to put the sanctions to a vote.

Speaker Gerry Brownlee urged lawmakers last month to negotiate a consensus and ordered a free-ranging debate that would continue until all agreed to put the sanctions to a vote.

The speaker, Gerry Brownlee, temporarily stopped the session, and Ms. Maipi-Clarke was suspended for a day over the protest, which Mr. Brownlee described as disrespectful. Video.