Dozens of journalists have vacated Parliament's press gallery over concerns the building is unsafe.
Reporters from Newshub and other organisations left their offices on Thursday night after finding out the building wasn't as secure as first thought.
Newshub political editor Patrick Gower says after the quakes, they were told it was safe to re-enter.
"Everyone is out, and the feeling is that the building is not safe and has been given a yellow sticker," he says.
"It's had that for a while, but what has happened is that individual media organisations have got their own briefings from Parliamentary Services - who manages the building on behalf of the Speaker of the House of Representatives - and they have decided on that briefing that it is not safe."
Gower says they will stay out until an independent report shows it's safe to re-enter.
"We need somewhere safe to work in - Parliamentary Services needs to provide us somewhere safe to work in."
Parliamentary Services originally cleared the building as safe after the Kaikoura earthquake last week, Gower says.
"However under further questioning from individual media offices, they have deemed it to not be safe. Plainly, lives have been put at risk by people working there in the last few days."
Speaker David Carter has been contacted for comment.
Newshub.
