Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Motions — Word War II—80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe

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📅 Recorded under the Tuesday, 6 May 2025 session - Hansard's own transcript for this session runs through to Thursday, 8 May 2025, so this debate may really have happened on a later date within that range rather than on 6 May itself - we can't tell which exact date from Hansard's own record of it.

📝 Hansard marked this day's transcript "Corrected" (not yet "Final") as of our last import - it may since have changed again. Check the official transcript if anything here looks off.

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🗣️ Speech Rt Hon Winston Peters (New Zealand First Party — List Member)

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Point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek leave to move a motion without notice and without debate to mark 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe.

💬 SPEAKER: Is there any objection to that course of action being followed? There appears to be none.

I move, That this House notes that 8 May 2025 marks 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe, VE Day or Victory in Europe Day, and subsequently in the Pacific; recognises that this anniversary represents an enormous cost to human life, fundamental questions of human freedom, self-determination, and dignity, and a global fight for the freedoms enjoyed by New Zealanders, the establishment of a new rules-based order centred around the UN charter, and a new body of international law; and recognises those who sacrificed themselves in the war for the hard-won conditions of peace and prosperity that we have enjoyed over our last three generations.

Motion agreed to.

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Rt Hon Winston Peters (New Zealand First Party — List Member)