Wellington, Nov 18 NZPA - Parliament's health select committee is going to hold an inquiry into child immunisation rates. It said today New Zealand's immunisation rates were far lower than in many other developed and under-developed countries.

Wellington, Sept 23 NZPA - Hundreds of men are unnecessarily dying of prostate cancer every year because doctors refuse to test them, a parliamentary select committee has been told.

Wellington, Sept 22 NZPA - National MP Paul Hutchison was caught reading while driving, and now his colleagues are being warned off the practice.

Auckland, Sept 22 NZPA - A National MP dobbed in after being caught reading while driving on an Auckland motorway has apologised and suggested he should be sentenced to picking up rubbish.

Wellington, Sept 11 NZPA - The benefits of compulsory student union membership will be revealed when a select committee examines a proposal to scrap compulsion, says Labour.

By Rory MacKinnon for NZPA Wellington, Sept 11 NZPA - National has made its first public show of support for a bill to dismantle compulsory student unions.