Every year Parliament ends in a more or less identical way, with the adjournment debate. To prove it, we sift its moments using previous years' descriptors.

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On Parliament’s final sitting day of the year, MPs discussed an issue with the potential to surge in prominence: the quality of life for ageing New Zealanders.

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Parliament’s week began with condolences on the Bondi attack. The six parties’ responses were very similar, but their divergences also said a lot.

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In its penultimate sitting block of the year, Parliament was in urgency debating 12 bills, The House looks at the two most controversial ones.

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Parliament's penultimate sitting week began with a major shakeup to the RMA, helped along by urgency.

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Rather than enjoying a gentle wind-down, Parliament’s final full week is packed with last-minute work as the Government tries to complete work and adds ten new bills to MPs’ piles for good measure.

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Parliament's December Scrutiny Week is over. The House looks at the eternal tussle between politics and actual oversight, and the interlocking problems of scale and attention that mean you will miss most of it.

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Headlines from scrutiny week honed in on the heated clashes, but behind the scenes the unglamorous work of number-crunching carried on.

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