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The Hansard Reports page on the New Zealand Parliament website provides the official transcripts of debates in the House of Representatives.
You can read near-verbatim reports on all debates, including oral questions, proposed laws (bills), and special debates.
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What is Hansard?
Hansard is the official report of debate in the House of Representatives.
The report is then published on this website and in book form, as a bound volume.
Hansard Editing Principles
What does that look like in practice? Discover how Hansard editors transform spoken words into written reports without altering the meaning.
How to explore Hansard
What’s the difference between a draft transcript and a daily debate?
To help you explore Hansard, check out our helpful guide.
Volumes and Indexes
An official record of debates has been kept continuously since 9 July 1867.
New Zealand was one of the first countries to establish an independent team of Hansard reporters, 42 years before Westminster.
Speeches made in the House of Representatives and the Legislative Council between 1867 and the commencement of Parliament in 1854 were compiled in 1885 from earlier newspaper reports, and this compilation also forms part of the New Zealand Hansard record.