54th New Zealand Parliament
Current New Zealand parliamentary term
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| February 19 2025 | NZ First MPs Peters and Jones criticised Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March for referring to New Zealand as 'Aotearoa' during parliamentary questioning, with Peters seeking to change standing orders around such references. |
| February 12 2025 | The Privileges Committee found Tākuta Ferris deliberately misled the House and ordered him to apologise for calling other MPs 'liars'. |
| February 11 2025 | The New Zealand Herald reported that Detective Superintendent Ross McKay was leading an inquiry into allegations of Te Pāti Māori's misuse of census data and Covid-19 vaccination information for electoral campaigning purposes. |
| January 30 2025 | Parliament passed the Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill, conferring legal personhood on Mount Taranaki. The New Zealand Crown apologized to eight Māori iwi for confiscating Mount Taranaki and 1.2 million acres of Māori lands. Mount Egmont ceased to be an official name for Mt Taranaki. |
| January 29 2025 | The Green Party sent a letter to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Speaker Gerry Brownlee condemning alleged racist remarks by NZ First MPs Winston Peters and Shane Jones towards migrant background Green MPs. |
| January 24 2025 | Hon. Louise Upston assumed the role of Deputy Leader of the House, replacing Hon. Simeon Brown. |
| January 22 2025 | A Statistics New Zealand report cleared the Whanau Ora Commissioning Agency of data breaches during the 2023 New Zealand census, made nine recommendations to improve procedures, and referred allegations against Manurewa Marae to the Privacy Commissioner. |
| 2024 | Several resignations from major parties, including Labour MPs Andrew Little, Rino Tirikatene, Kelvin Davis, and Grant Robertson. |
| December 17 2024 | Government's Fast-track Approvals Act 2024 passed into law. |
| December 13 2024 | Parliament passed legislation reinstating three-strikes laws. |
| December 12 2024 | Parliament passed legislation introducing pet bonds for tenants and reinstating 90-day no-cause evictions. |
| December 10 2024 | The aforementioned MPs were referred to the Privileges Committee for interrupting vote proceedings with a haka. |
| December 2 2024 | Parliament is scheduled to hold its second scrutiny week from 2–6 December. |
| November 2024 | Parliament passed legislation restoring New Zealand citizenship to people born in Samoa between 1924 and 1949, who had been deprived of New Zealand citizenship in 1982. |
| November 14 2024 | Labour MP Peeni Henare, Te Pāti Māori MPs Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, Rawiri Waititi, and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer led a haka (ka mate) that interrupted vote proceedings during the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill. |
| October 2024 | Parliament passed Deborah Russell's private member's bill exempting victims of domestic violence from waiting a mandatory two years to seek a divorce. |
| October 2024 | Jamie Arbuckle, a Marlborough District councillor and New Zealand First list MP, planned to resign from his council position, noting the proximity to the 2025 local elections. |
| October 22 2024 | Darleen Tana was expelled from Parliament under the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act 2018, and Benjamin Doyle was elected as a list MP for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. |
| September 2024 | Te Pati Māori MP Tākuta Ferris was referred to Parliament's Privileges Committee for remarks accusing Members of Parliament of lying and obfuscation. |
| September 2024 | Parliament passed a private member's bill amending the Fair Trading Act 1986 to ensure gift cards have a minimum expiry date of three years, supported by all parties except ACT. |
| August 2024 | Julie Anne Genter was found in contempt of Parliament and ordered to apologise. |
| August 2024 | Government passed legislation requiring local councils to develop plans for delivering drinking water, wastewater and stormwater services as part of its 'Local Water Done Well' programme. |
| August 27 2024 | Former academic Rawiri Taonui asserted that whistleblowers connected to Destiny Church made allegations against Manurewa Marae and Te Pāti Māori following a failed attempt by the church to take over the marae. |
| July 2024 | Government passed legislation reinstating the referendum requirement for Māori wards and constituencies in local councils, requiring councils to hold a binding poll alongside the 2025 New Zealand local elections. |
| July 2024 | Radio New Zealand reported that political parties received a total of almost NZ$25 million in donations during the 2023 general election, the biggest total declared in New Zealand history. |
| July 8 2024 | Darleen Tana resigned from the Green Party due to allegations of migrant exploitation and became an independent politician. |
| June 2024 | The Electoral Commission referred Green MP Darleen Tana and Verve Magazine publishers to Police for an alleged election advertising breach from the previous year. |
| June 17 2024 | Parliament begins its first ever 'scrutiny week', allowing select committees to scrutinise government and public sector spending plans. The week runs from 17–21 June. |
| June 7 2024 | Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Waititi and Ngarewa-Packer called for an urgent Police investigation into the data breach allegations. Police confirmed they were already investigating complaints. |
| June 2 2024 | Stuff journalist Andrea Vance reported that Statistics New Zealand was investigating allegations that Te Pāti Māori illegally used 2023 New Zealand census data to target Māori electorate voters in the Tāmaki Makaurau electorate during the 2023 election. |
| May 2024 | Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter was referred to Parliament's privileges committee for allegedly intimidating National Party MP Matt Doocey during a heated parliamentary exchange. |
| May 30 2024 | Budget 2024 is delivered to Parliament. |
| May 7 2024 | Auditor-General John Ryan completed an investigation revealing that the final election vote count was rushed and done under extreme pressure, failing to identify multiple errors. Ryan found several dual votes were included in the official count and recommended process improvements for the Electoral Commission. |
| May 6 2024 | Francisco Hernandez was elected to replace James Shaw as a list MP for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. |
| May 5 2024 | James Shaw resigned from the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand to take up governance and advisory roles in the climate sector. |
| April 2024 | Parliament passed legislation allowing 11 pseudoephedrine cold and flu medicines to be sold without prescriptions from June 2024. |
| March 2024 | Government passed major tax legislation restoring interest deductibility for residential investment property, reducing the bright-line test for residential property to two years, and eliminating depreciation deductions for commercial and industrial buildings. Also passed legislation requiring electric cars and plug-in hybrids to pay road user charges. |
| March 25 2024 | Glen Bennett was elected to replace Grant Robertson as a list MP for the New Zealand Labour Party. |
| March 22 2024 | Grant Robertson resigned from the New Zealand Labour Party to take up the role of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago. |
| March 10 2024 | Chlöe Swarbrick becomes Co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, replacing James Shaw in this role. |
| March 6 2024 | Lawrence Xu-Nan was elected to replace Efeso Collins as a list MP for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. |
| February 2024 | Government repealed the Three Waters reform programme, Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act 2022, and disestablished Te Aka Whai Ora (the Māori Health Authority) under urgency. |
| February 2024 | RNZ reported that third-party groups spent a total of NZ$2 million during the 2023 election, which is 13 times the amount spent during the 2020 general election. |
| February 21 2024 | Efeso Collins passed away while serving as a list MP for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. |
| February 17 2024 | Voting closed for three local government by-elections resulting from MPs who previously held local council positions: Hamilton City Council's East ward, Christchurch City Council's Banks Peninsula community board, and Wellington City Council's Pukehīnau Lambton ward. |
| February 7 2024 | Shanan Halbert was elected to replace Kelvin Davis as a list MP for the New Zealand Labour Party. |
| February 6 2024 | Kelvin Davis resigned from the New Zealand Labour Party after losing Te Tai Tokerau in the 2023 election. |
| January 2024 | Several significant resignations occurred in the parliament, including Rino Tirikatene from Labour and Golriz Ghahraman from the Green Party. |
| January 29 2024 | Tracey McLellan was elected to replace Rino Tirikatene as a list MP for the New Zealand Labour Party. |
| January 28 2024 | Rino Tirikatene resigned from the New Zealand Labour Party after losing Te Tai Tonga in the 2023 election. |
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