Volumes and Indexes

Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) is the official name of the transcripts of debates in the New Zealand Parliament. New Zealand was one of the first countries to establish an independent team of Hansard reporters, 42 years before Westminster.

An official record of debates has been kept continuously since 9 July 1867. 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.

The table below includes PDFs of all published Hansard volumes, as well as sessional indexes.

The Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives gratefully acknowledges the HathiTrust Digital Library, the University of California and the Google Books Library Project for their generous assistance with creating and hosting the New Zealand Parliament’s historical Hansard.