Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Vote: Bills — Depleted Uranium (Prohibition) Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Depleted Uranium (Prohibition) Bill be now read a first time
Moved by
Hon Phil Twyford
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Te Atatū)
PHIL TWYFORD (Labour—Te Atatū): In 1995 I was working for Oxfam, and at the time there was an international conference on the international convention on inhumane weapons. The National Prime Minister of the time was Jim Bolger, and the Minister of... 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.
✕ Failed by a narrow margin
(60 Ayes – 60 Noes – 1 Absent)
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 | 0 | 1 |
| Green Party | 14 | 0 |
| Mana | 1 | 0 |
| Māori Party | 2 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 34 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 59 |
| United Future | 1 | 0 |