Wednesday, 30 April 2003
Vote: Bills — Prostitution Reform Bill
— Clause 1 Title (continued)
🗳️ That clause 1 be agreed to
JOHN CARTER (Senior Whip—NZ National): We are about 2 minutes away from the time when we would normally rise. Rather than your interrupting a member’s speech, and giving him or her only 2 minutes, I wonder whether the Committee might be inclined to close... Read more →
🙋 Personal (conscience) vote — MPs voted as individuals rather than
following their party's position. These are typically called on moral or ethical
questions (e.g. euthanasia, abortion, alcohol law, marriage law), where by convention
parties don't whip their members into a single position.
✓ Passed by a narrow margin
(61 Ayes – 55 Noes – 4 Absent)
✓ Ayes (60)
New Zealand Labour Party (40)
- Rick Barker (Member for Tukituki)
- Tim Barnett (Member for Christchurch Central)
- David Benson-Pope (Member for Dunedin South)
- Georgina Beyer (Member for Wairarapa)
- Mark Burton (Member for Taupō)
- Chris Carter (Member for Te Atatū)
- Steve Chadwick (Member for Rotorua)
- Helen Clark (Member for Mount Albert)
- Hon Sir Michael Cullen (List Member)
- David Cunliffe (Member for New Lynn)
- Lianne Dalziel (Member for Christchurch East)
- Helen Duncan (List Member)
- Ruth Dyson (Member for Banks Peninsula)
- Russell Fairbrother (Member for Napier)
- Martin Gallagher (Member for Hamilton West)
- Phil Goff (Member for Mount Roskill)
- Vui Mark Gosche (Member for Maungakiekie)
- Ann Hartley (Member for Northcote)
- George Hawkins (Member for Manurewa)
- Dave Hereora (List Member)
- Marian Hobbs (Member for Wellington Central)
- Pete Hodgson (Member for Dunedin North)
- Parekura Horomia (Member for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti)
- Darren Hughes (Member for Ōtaki)
- Jonathan Hunt (List Member)
- Graham Kelly (List Member)
- Annette King (Member for Rongotai)
- Steve Maharey (Member for Palmerston North)
- Sir Rt Hon Trevor Mallard (Member for Hutt South)
- Mahara Okeroa (Member for Te Tai Tonga)
- Hon David Parker (Member for Otago)
- Mark Peck (Member for Invercargill)
- Jill Pettis (Member for Whanganui)
- Lynne Pillay (Member for Waitakere)
- Mita Ririnui (Member for Waiariki)
- Paul Swain (Member for Rimutaka)
- John Tamihere (Member for Tāmaki Makaurau)
- Judith Tizard (Member for Auckland Central)
- Hon Dame Tariana Turia (Member for Te Tai Hauāuru)
- Margaret Wilson (List Member)
New Zealand National Party (9)
- Don Brash (List Member)
- John Key (Member for Helensville)
- Wayne Mapp (Member for North Shore)
- Murray McCully (Member for East Coast Bays)
- Katherine Rich (List Member)
- Hon Clem Simich (Member for Tāmaki)
- Lockwood Smith (Member for Rodney)
- Roger Sowry (List Member)
- Maurice Williamson (Member for Pakuranga)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (8)
- Dr Sue Bradford (List Member)
- Rod Donald (List Member)
- Ian Ewen-Street (List Member)
- Jeanette Fitzsimons (List Member)
- Sue Kedgley (List Member)
- Keith Locke (List Member)
- Metiria Turei (List Member)
- Mike Ward (List Member)
ACT New Zealand (3)
- Rodney Hide (List Member)
- Heather Roy (List Member)
- Ken Shirley (List Member)
✕ Noes (53)
New Zealand National Party (16)
- Shane Ardern (Member for Taranaki-King Country)
- Hon Gerry Brownlee (Member for Ilam)
- David Carter (List Member)
- John Carter (Member for Northland)
- Hon Judith Collins (Member for Clevedon)
- Brian Connell (Member for Rakaia)
- Bill English (Member for Clutha-Southland)
- Sandra Goudie (Member for Coromandel)
- Phil Heatley (Member for Whangārei)
- Paul Hutchison (Member for Port Waikato)
- Simon Power (Member for Rangitīkei)
- Tony Ryall (Member for Bay of Plenty)
- Lynda Scott (Member for Kaikōura)
- Hon Dr Nick Smith (Member for Nelson)
- Georgina Te Heuheu (List Member)
- Lindsay Tisch (Member for Piako)
New Zealand First Party (13)
- Peter Brown (List Member)
- Brent Catchpole (List Member)
- Brian Donnelly (List Member)
- Bill Gudgeon (List Member)
- Dail Jones (List Member)
- Hon Ron Mark (List Member)
- Craig McNair (List Member)
- Pita Paraone (List Member)
- Edwin Perry (List Member)
- Jim Peters (List Member)
- Rt Hon Winston Peters (Member for Tauranga)
- Barbara Stewart (List Member)
- R Doug Woolerton (List Member)
New Zealand Labour Party (11)
- Ashraf Choudhary (List Member)
- Clayton Cosgrove (Member for Waimakariri)
- Harry Duynhoven (Member for New Plymouth)
- Taito Phillip Field (Member for Māngere)
- Hon Dame Luamanuvao Winnie Laban (Member for Mana)
- Janet Mackey (Member for East Coast)
- Hon Nanaia Mahuta (Member for Tainui)
- Hon Damien O'Connor (Member for West Coast-Tasman)
- H V Ross Robertson (Member for Manukau East)
- Hon Dover Samuels (Member for Te Tai Tokerau)
- Dianne Yates (Member for Hamilton East)
United Future New Zealand (8)
- Paul Adams (List Member)
- Marc Alexander (List Member)
- Larry Baldock (List Member)
- Gordon Copeland (List Member)
- Peter Dunne (Member for Ohariu-Belmont)
- Bernard Ogilvy (List Member)
- Murray Smith (List Member)
- Judy Turner (List Member)
ACT New Zealand (3)
- Gerrard Eckhoff (List Member)
- Stephen Franks (List Member)
- Muriel Newman (List Member)
Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition (2)
- Hon Jim Anderton (Member for Wigram)
- Matt Robson (List Member)