Wednesday, 8 September 2004
Vote: Bills — Shop Trading Hours (Easter Trading Local Exemption) Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Shop Trading Hours (Easter Trading Local Exemption) Bill be now read a first time
Moved by
Peter Brown
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Clem Simich): I agree with that. But for the Green Party’s “No” vote, the motion would have been agreed to and that would have been the end of the matter. We can be grateful in many ways for the “No” vote. Does any member call for... Read more →
🛑 Bill failed here — this reading vote failed, and a bill can't proceed
past a failed reading. So even though this isn't the third reading, it's the last we saw
of this bill: it doesn't get another vote after this one.
🙋 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.
✕ Failed by a narrow margin
(56 Ayes – 61 Noes – 3 Absent)
✓ Ayes (56)
New Zealand National Party (19)
- Don Brash (List Member)
- David Carter (List Member)
- Hon Judith Collins (Member for Clevedon)
- Brian Connell (Member for Rakaia)
- Sandra Goudie (Member for Coromandel)
- Paul Hutchison (Member for Port Waikato)
- John Key (Member for Helensville)
- Wayne Mapp (Member for North Shore)
- Murray McCully (Member for East Coast Bays)
- Simon Power (Member for Rangitīkei)
- Katherine Rich (List Member)
- Tony Ryall (Member for Bay of Plenty)
- Lynda Scott (Member for Kaikōura)
- Hon Clem Simich (Member for Tāmaki)
- Lockwood Smith (Member for Rodney)
- Roger Sowry (List Member)
- Lindsay Tisch (Member for Piako)
- Maurice Williamson (Member for Pakuranga)
- Pansy Wong (List Member)
New Zealand Labour Party (14)
- Georgina Beyer (Member for Wairarapa)
- Steve Chadwick (Member for Rotorua)
- Helen Clark (Member for Mount Albert)
- Hon Sir Michael Cullen (List Member)
- Pete Hodgson (Member for Dunedin North)
- Jonathan Hunt (List Member)
- Janet Mackey (Member for East Coast)
- Mark Peck (Member for Invercargill)
- H V Ross Robertson (Member for Manukau East)
- Hon Dover Samuels (Member for Te Tai Tokerau)
- Jim Sutton (Member for Aoraki)
- Paul Swain (Member for Rimutaka)
- John Tamihere (Member for Tāmaki Makaurau)
- Margaret Wilson (List Member)
New Zealand First Party (12)
- 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)
- Barbara Stewart (List Member)
- R Doug Woolerton (List Member)
ACT New Zealand (8)
- Deborah Coddington (List Member)
- Gerrard Eckhoff (List Member)
- Stephen Franks (List Member)
- Rodney Hide (List Member)
- Muriel Newman (List Member)
- Richard Prebble (List Member)
- Heather Roy (List Member)
- Ken Shirley (List Member)
United Future New Zealand (2)
- Marc Alexander (List Member)
- Peter Dunne (Member for Ohariu-Belmont)
Independent (1)
- Donna Awatere Huata (List Member)
✕ Noes (60)
New Zealand Labour Party (35)
- Rick Barker (Member for Tukituki)
- Tim Barnett (Member for Christchurch Central)
- David Benson-Pope (Member for Dunedin South)
- Mark Burton (Member for Taupō)
- Chris Carter (Member for Te Atatū)
- Ashraf Choudhary (List Member)
- Clayton Cosgrove (Member for Waimakariri)
- David Cunliffe (Member for New Lynn)
- Lianne Dalziel (Member for Christchurch East)
- Helen Duncan (List Member)
- Harry Duynhoven (Member for New Plymouth)
- Ruth Dyson (Member for Banks Peninsula)
- Russell Fairbrother (Member for Napier)
- Taito Phillip Field (Member for Māngere)
- 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)
- Parekura Horomia (Member for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti)
- Annette King (Member for Rongotai)
- Hon Dame Luamanuvao Winnie Laban (Member for Mana)
- Moana Lynore Mackey (List Member)
- Steve Maharey (Member for Palmerston North)
- Sir Rt Hon Trevor Mallard (Member for Hutt South)
- Hon Damien O'Connor (Member for West Coast-Tasman)
- Mahara Okeroa (Member for Te Tai Tonga)
- Hon David Parker (Member for Otago)
- Jill Pettis (Member for Whanganui)
- Lynne Pillay (Member for Waitakere)
- Mita Ririnui (Member for Waiariki)
- Judith Tizard (Member for Auckland Central)
- Dianne Yates (Member for Hamilton East)
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)
New Zealand National Party (8)
- Shane Ardern (Member for Taranaki-King Country)
- Hon Gerry Brownlee (Member for Ilam)
- John Carter (Member for Northland)
- Bill English (Member for Clutha-Southland)
- Phil Heatley (Member for Whangārei)
- Hon Dr Nick Smith (Member for Nelson)
- Georgina Te Heuheu (List Member)
- Richard Worth (Member for Epsom)
United Future New Zealand (6)
- Paul Adams (List Member)
- Larry Baldock (List Member)
- Gordon Copeland (List Member)
- Bernard Ogilvy (List Member)
- Murray Smith (List Member)
- Judy Turner (List Member)
Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition (2)
- Hon Jim Anderton (Member for Wigram)
- Matt Robson (List Member)
Māori Party (1)
- Hon Dame Tariana Turia (Member for Te Tai Hauāuru)