Wednesday, 1 April 2026
Vote: Bills — Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Sales on Anzac Day Morning, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas Day) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Sales on Anzac Day Morning, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas Day) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Kieran McAnulty
(New Zealand Labour Party — List Member)
TODD STEPHENSON: Thank you, Mr Speaker. It gives me pleasure to rise and have a speech in this debate on the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Sales on Anzac Day Morning, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas Day) Amendment Bill. I’m... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Easter alcohol sales”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Easter alcohol sales.
Third Reading — this is the last vote a bill needs to
pass before it's sent off to become law. Earlier votes (first reading, second reading, and
any votes on amendments along the way) decide what the bill looks like and whether it
keeps moving forward, but this is the one that actually decides whether it happens at all.
🙋 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
(66 Ayes – 56 Noes – 1 Absent)
✓ Ayes (63)
New Zealand National Party
(32)
- Miles Anderson (Member for Waitaki)
- Andrew Bayly (Member for Port Waikato)
- Dan Bidois (Member for Northcote)
- Chris Bishop (Member for Hutt South)
- Cameron Brewer (Member for Upper Harbour)
- Mike Butterick (Member for Wairarapa)
- Dr Hamish Campbell (Member for Ilam)
- Hon Judith Collins (Member for Papakura)
- Tim Costley (Member for Ōtaki)
- Matt Doocey (Member for Waimakariri)
- Greg Fleming (Member for Maungakiekie)
- Ryan Hamilton (Member for Hamilton East)
- Dana Kirkpatrick (Member for East Coast)
- Barbara Kuriger (Member for Taranaki-King Country)
- Nancy Lu (List Member)
- Christopher Luxon (Member for Botany)
- Grant McCallum (Member for Northland)
- Hon Todd McClay (Member for Rotorua)
- James Meager (Member for Rangitata)
- Hon Mark Mitchell (Member for Whangaparāoa)
- Joseph Mooney (Member for Southland)
- Suze Redmayne (Member for Rangitīkei)
- Dr Shane Reti (Member for Whangārei)
- Tom Rutherford (Member for Bay of Plenty)
- Hon Scott Simpson (Member for Coromandel)
- Stuart Smith (Member for Kaikōura)
- Erica Stanford (Member for East Coast Bays)
- Hon Louise Upston (Member for Taupō)
- Simon Watts (Member for North Shore)
- Catherine Wedd (Member for Tukituki)
- Dr Vanessa Weenink (Member for Banks Peninsula)
- Nicola Willis (List Member)
New Zealand Labour Party
(19)
- Ginny Andersen (List Member)
- Glen Bennett (List Member)
- Rachel Boyack (Member for Nelson)
- Rachel Brooking (Member for Dunedin)
- Shanan Halbert (List Member)
- Hon Chris Hipkins (Member for Remutaka)
- Willie Jackson (List Member)
- Jo Luxton (List Member)
- Kieran McAnulty (List Member)
- Hon Damien O'Connor (List Member)
- Hon Priyanca Radhakrishnan (List Member)
- Dr Deborah Russell (List Member)
- Hon Carmel Sepuloni (Member for Kelston)
- Cushla Tangaere-Manuel (Member for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti)
- Hon Jan Tinetti (List Member)
- Tangi Utikere (Member for Palmerston North)
- Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall (List Member)
- Dr Duncan Webb (Member for Christchurch Central)
- Hon Dr Megan Woods (Member for Wigram)
ACT New Zealand
(10)
- Mark Cameron (List Member)
- Karen Chhour (List Member)
- Simon Court (List Member)
- Hon Andrew Hoggard (List Member)
- Cameron Luxton (List Member)
- Nicole McKee (List Member)
- Parmjeet Parmar (List Member)
- David Seymour (Member for Epsom)
- Todd Stephenson (List Member)
- Brooke Van Velden (Member for Tāmaki)
Independent
(2)
- Tākuta Ferris (Member for Te Tai Tonga)
- Mariameno Kapa-Kingi (Member for Te Tai Tokerau)
✕ Noes (53)
New Zealand National Party
(17)
- Carl Bates (Member for Whanganui)
- Simeon Brown (Member for Pakuranga)
- Hon Gerry Brownlee (List Member)
- Dr Carlos Cheung (Member for Mount Roskill)
- Paulo Garcia (Member for New Lynn)
- Hon Paul Goldsmith (List Member)
- Nicola Grigg (Member for Selwyn)
- Melissa Lee (List Member)
- David Macleod (Member for New Plymouth)
- Rima Nakhle (Member for Takanini)
- Katie Nimon (Member for Napier)
- Chris Penk (Member for Kaipara ki Mahurangi)
- Tama Potaka (Member for Hamilton West)
- Maureen Pugh (Member for West Coast-Tasman)
- Penny Simmonds (Member for Invercargill)
- Sam Uffindell (Member for Tauranga)
- Tim Van De Molen (Member for Waikato)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand
(13)
- Steve Abel (List Member)
- Kahurangi Carter (List Member)
- Hon Julie Anne Genter (Member for Rongotai)
- Francisco Hernandez (List Member)
- Hūhana Lyndon (List Member)
- Ricardo Menéndez March (List Member)
- Tamatha Paul (Member for Wellington Central)
- Lan Pham (List Member)
- Chlöe Swarbrick (Member for Auckland Central)
- Teanau Tuiono (List Member)
- Celia Wade-Brown (List Member)
- Scott Willis (List Member)
- Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan (List Member)
New Zealand Labour Party
(11)
- Camilla Belich (List Member)
- Reuben Davidson (Member for Christchurch East)
- Barbara Edmonds (Member for Mana)
- Ingrid Leary (Member for Taieri)
- Tracey McLellan (List Member)
- Greg O'Connor (Member for Ōhāriu)
- Willow-Jean Prime (List Member)
- Hon Jenny Salesa (Member for Panmure-Ōtāhuhu)
- Lemauga Lydia Sosene (Member for Māngere)
- Helen White (Member for Mount Albert)
- Arena Williams (Member for Manurewa)
New Zealand First Party
(8)
- Jamie Arbuckle (List Member)
- Hon Casey Costello (List Member)
- Andy Foster (List Member)
- Shane Jones (List Member)
- Jenny Marcroft (List Member)
- Mark William James Patterson (List Member)
- Rt Hon Winston Peters (List Member)
- Dr David Wilson (List Member)
Māori Party
(4)
- Oriini Kaipara (Member for Tāmaki Makaurau)
- Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke (Member for Hauraki-Waikato)
- Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (Member for Te Tai Hauāuru)
- Rawiri Waititi (Member for Waiariki)