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Topic

Parliamentary Rules Misuse

8 items · 6 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 29 Apr 2026

A Labour Party release calls on Winston Peters to apologise for misusing parliamentary rules and blaming a public servant with no evidence of wrongdoing.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

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Alias drift

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 3 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 3 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • Again, I'm not going to go into who was there, but there was political staff from the TVNZ political team, and they chased Stuart Smith down a corridor and he went into his office, he declined an interview. They stood there, they remained there for some time, banging on his door, asking him to come out for an interview. They then pressured him into an interview saying, well, effectively that if he didn't come out, things would be reported worse the next day. And ultimately, it breaks the rules of Parliament. One, political journalists can't chase members of Parliament down corridors if they decline to be interviewed. And secondly, they can't interview members of Parliament outside their offices without express permission from that member of Parliament. And this type of behaviour is not acceptable, and ultimately we're calling it out. We've lodged a complaint with TVNZ because New Zealanders expect political journalists and political editors to report the facts, to present the case, but ultimately what we're seeing here is behaviour which I think most New Zealanders would say is unacceptable.
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point-of-order Centre-right

broken rules in press gallery conduct

Unreported for nearly a year: media misconduct in Parliament
28 Apr

unethical breach of procedural standards

Release: Winston Peters must apologise
28 Apr
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How the public reacted

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