broadcasting

Maud Basham, also known as Aunt Daisy, was famous as the host of a radio show focused on domesticity. Upon the success of the broadcasts, she wrote accompanying cook books, and was awarded an MBE in 1956.

Reporting Parliament

Whether it has been Hansard – the official record of parliamentary debates – or newspaper reports of parliamentary activities and government decisions, the reporting of Parliament has been an important part of the parliamentary story.

Hansard

When New Zealand established a Hansard service in 1867, it was one of the world's first independent and official records of parliamentary debates. Today, Hansard is recorded first on digital audiotape, but for most of its history, Hansard reporters had to be top-of-the-line shorthand reporters reaching speeds of 180 words and more a minute, without mistakes. They had to understand political affairs and parliamentary procedures, and in the days when Members of Parliament (MPs) peppered their speeches with Latin quotations and literary allusions, the Hansard reporters had to know what these meant.