NZ Parliament: Parliamentary Publications
Parliamentary Publications
These sites contain useful information:
- New Zealand Parliament This link opens in a new windowInformation about our MPs, parties, electorates, parliament and parliamentary business (including Bills, Select Committees, Hansard, journals, papers and petitions)
- Parliamentary Bulletin onlineAccess to the Weekly Journal, progress of legislation through the house, sitting programme and more.
- Parliamentary Bulletin (hardcopy)Weekly schedule of parliamentary business before the House, including progress of Bills, and Select Committees, from 1986. Held at Central Government Publications 3OC5, Hocken and Law Library
- Cabinet Office Manual 2008Authoritative guide to central government decision making for Ministers, their offices, and those working within government. It is also a key source of information on New Zealand's constitutional arrangements, as seen through the lens of the executive branch of government. Online updates.
- Bills DigestGuides about specific bills, to assist parliamentarians.
Journals & Appendices
Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives 1858+ - Law Library - 9th floor, KG 310.5
- Known as A to Js or AJHR. (The House of Representatives is Parliament's official name)
- Contain many annual reports of government departments and agencies, treaties & other important official papers e.g. the Budget
- Appendices are classified by letters (A to I) and numbers ("shoulder numbers" ) which tend to remain the same from session to session eg: the Budget is always B6, the Education Dept. Annual report is E1
- To find the appropriate "shoulder number" for a paper consult the index at the back of any bound set of Appendices
- Annual Reports not in the AJHR - search NZ Government individual department webpages
Historical AtoJs online 1858-1950, also including Votes and Proceedings 1854-1856.
Journals of the House of Representatives 1858+ -- Law Library - 9th floor, KG 310.5
- The formal record or minutes of Parliament
- Useful schedules are included, e.g. "Schedule of papers", "Schedule of select committees" and "Schedule of public bills"
Journals of the House of Representatives 2006+
Journal of the House of Representatives 2008+ - cumulative current year and sessional indexes
Reference Books
- An introduction to New Zealand government : a guide to finding out about government in New Zealand, its institutions, structures and activities byCentral Books JQ 5831 .R564; also at Hocken and Law
- New Zealand Government DirectoryConsult https://www.govt.nz/organisations or Central Books JQ 5824 .NH29 2009; 1988- at Hocken and Storage: 109 Leith St
- Index to New Zealand Periodicals, 1940-1986Hocken Reference Periodicals. 1985- online as Index New Zealand database
- Ministers and members in the New Zealand Parliament, 1996-2005 : supplement for the years 1996-2005 to G.A. Wood's Ministers and members in the New Zealand Parliament : together with appendices updating J.O. Wilson's New Zealand Parliamentary record byHocken Library JQ 5842 .MN16 2006. Earlier volumes entitled New Zealand parliamentary record, date from 1840, at JQ 5851.NH33
- Who's who in the New Zealand ParliamentHocken Library JQ 5857 .BL19; earlier volumes for 1987 and 1990; formerly known as Biographies of members of the New Zealand Parliament
The Politics and Government of New Zealand: robust, innovative and challenged by Central Books JQ 5831 .W66 2004; and Hocken Library- New Zealand government sector directoryHocken Library Periodicals
