The New Zealand government on Tuesday introduced a law that will prevent people from enrolling to vote on election day and ...

PICKING a name for a baby is an exciting moment – but one thing parents might not immediately think about is the legality of ...

In some countries parents have to choose from a list of approved baby names while others ban names such as Lucifer, Saint, ...

“Which has become quite an iconic part of our democracy.” An unusual public ritual Most laws that pass through New Zealand’s Parliament need never enter the ballot.

KELLY: Many ambulances - fifty-one people were killed, 51. And Jacinda Ardern, the youngest woman ever elected to lead a country, decided it was time to change New Zealand's gun laws.

The Associated Press - May 22, 2025 WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Under the scrutiny of a black-robed official and before a hushed audience, a decorative cookie tin rattles like a bingo drum.

The decorative cookie tin, known in New Zealand as the biscuit tin, which was purchased from a department store in the early 1990s to draw lawmakers' bills from and remains in use, at Parliament ...

In New Zealand’s Parliament, every legislator has the chance to advance a proposed law, no matter how unpopular, thanks to an unusual lottery where bills are selected by random draw from a ...