Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Vote: Bills — Crimes (Repeal of Seditious Offences) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Crimes (Repeal of Seditious Offences) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Mark Burton
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Taupō)
RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER (Labour): I want to pick up on the challenge laid down by the Rt Hon Winston Peters in his speech tonight. He put to the House—and perhaps to the nation—the question of whether we will feel safer if the law of sedition is... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Repeal of sedition laws”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Repeal of sedition laws.
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.
✓ Passed by a large majority
(114 Ayes – 7 Noes)
Hansard didn't name individual MPs for this vote, only how each party voted overall, so
there's no per-member breakdown to show here.
🏛️ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 2 | 0 |
| Green Party | 6 | 0 |
| Māori Party | 4 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 0 | 7 |
| New Zealand Labour | 49 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 48 | 0 |
| Progressive | 1 | 0 |
| United Future | 2 | 0 |