POLS 428, the Victoria University of Wellington's Parliamentary Internship programme, provides a limited number of selected postgraduate students with opportunities to gain insights into:
* the parliamentary process;
* the roles and responsibilities of Members of Parliament;
* the functions and activities of parliamentary research units;
* the conduct of select committees; and
* the activities of parliamentary parties.

The course provides a means for students doing either postgraduate Honours degrees in Political Science, Public Policy, or International Relations or, in special cases, a Master of International Relations (MIR) degree to learn about the parliamentary process through first-hand involvement within the institution of Parliament itself. As in all postgraduate courses, the course also seeks to strengthen the ability of students to carry out independent research and to prepare research papers.

In 2007, more than thirty students applied to do POLS 428, and after a rigourous selection process which included interviewing applicants to assess their suitability as potenial interns and trying to match students' skills with the needs of Members of Parliament, twenty students were accepted as POLS 428 Parliamentary Interns. (Sadly, one intern had to withdraw from the course in the middle of the year.) The remaining nineteen interns and the MPs (and, in one instance, the member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery) for whom they worked are shown in the following Table:

Robert Addison, an intern with Sue Kedgley, MP	Lydia Ayto, an intern with Dr Jackie Blue, MP	Eileen Bredin, an intern with Pansy Wong, MP	Gordon Burns, an intern with the Hon. Mahara Okeroa, MP	[Photo unavailable] James Christmas, an intern with Chris Finlayson, MP
Stephen Collins, an intern with Dr the Hon. Lockwood Smith, MP	Katrin Frank, an intern with Simon Power, MP	Maureen Healy, an intern with the Hon. Peter Dunne, MP	Jodi Idema, an intern with the Hon. Pete Hodgson, MP	Scott Joblin , an intern with Dr Wayne Mapp, MP
Nicola Kean, an intern with Brent Edwards in the Press Gallery	Ethan Kraus, an intern with John Hayes, MP	Oliver Lah, an intern with Tim Barnett, MP	Helen Lahtinen, an intern with the Hon. Chris Carter, MP	Julian Light, an intern with Nicky Wagner, MP
Nataliya Mikhenker , an intern with Dianne Yates, MP	Teresa Quin, an intern with Dave Hereora, MP	Raukura Spindler, an intern with Steve Chadwick, MP	Andrei Zubkov , an intern with Darren Hughes, MP