Most news clips from Parliament are from Question Time. It is at least as much performance theatre as a mechanism for holding government to account. Late-night committee stages attract far fewer viewers and enable more important work.

Last Tuesday and Wednesday, Housing Minister Chris Bishop and former housing minister Phil Twyford tried to work out how to make one of the planning system’s most important housing reforms survive long after either of them has left Parliament.

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