About this episode

The episode discusses a historic debate in Parliament regarding anti-slavery legislation and the differing opinions among government coalition partners.

In a historic first, Parliament used a new rule to debate slavery legislation that has wide support in the House, but that government coalition partners don’t agree on. Plus other stories from a week of unlikely allies and surprising foes. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Topics covered

• anti-slavery legislation
• Parliament debate
• government coalition
• political alliances
• legislative process

Keywords

• anti-slavery
• legislation
• Parliament
• coalition partners
• politics
• debate
• House

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Organizations: Parliament, House, RNZ

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