Welcome to the Virtual Democratic Infrastructure Group. Online home of the New Zealand Hansard, a full text database of New Zealand's parliamentary debate. This site offers free browsing of the debates as well as a search engine.
News:
- [1 September 2006] We have improved the formatting and searching of Maori words. The macron (little line over a letter that lengthens the vowel sound) is ignored when searching text.
- [30 May 2005] The search interface has been improved -- fixing a bug that stopped the second page of search results from showing correctly in some circumstances.
- [21 June 2004] We have fixed some missing content. The old system occasionally truncated a debate that contained badly formatted text. The old debates contained 412962452 characters, the new one 413800709. Many thanks to Nick Turner who spotted a missing piece of debate and alerted us.
- [31 March 2004] The hansard search engine is working again. Please accept our sincerest apologies for the downtime.
- [22 August 2003] We have recieved a new server! A big 'thank you' to the anonymous donor.
- [18 August 2003] Hansard data from 2003 is coming on line. There are some formatting problems, but the content is all there. Enjoy!
- [29 July 2003] Updated our mission statement.
- [14 June 2003] Version 1.1b is goes live.
- [18 April 2003] Our free Hansard search is ONE YEAR old today!!!.
- [18 April 2002] Version 1.0 is released, we have become the first free NZ Hansard search site.
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