Wednesday, 30 July 2003
Vote: Bills — Death with Dignity Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Death with Dignity Bill be now read a first time
PETER BROWN (Deputy Leader—NZ First): I would like to start my reply by addressing a few of the queries. With regard to the query raised by Gordon Copeland about the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act, I have to say that the Ministry of Justice advised the...
🛑 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
(58 Ayes – 60 Noes – 2 Absent)
✓ Ayes (56)
New Zealand Labour Party (25)
- 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)
- David Cunliffe (Member for New Lynn)
- Helen Duncan (List Member)
- Ruth Dyson (Member for Banks Peninsula)
- Russell Fairbrother (Member for Napier)
- Phil Goff (Member for Mount Roskill)
- George Hawkins (Member for Manurewa)
- Dave Hereora (List Member)
- Marian Hobbs (Member for Wellington Central)
- Pete Hodgson (Member for Dunedin North)
- Jonathan Hunt (List Member)
- Hon Dame Luamanuvao Winnie Laban (Member for Mana)
- Moana Lynore Mackey (List Member)
- Steve Maharey (Member for Palmerston North)
- Mahara Okeroa (Member for Te Tai Tonga)
- Lynne Pillay (Member for Waitakere)
- Hon Dover Samuels (Member for Te Tai Tokerau)
- Judith Tizard (Member for Auckland Central)
- Hon Dame Tariana Turia (Member for Te Tai Hauāuru)
New Zealand First Party (9)
- Peter Brown (List Member)
- Brent Catchpole (List Member)
- Brian Donnelly (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)
ACT New Zealand (7)
- Deborah Coddington (List Member)
- Gerrard Eckhoff (List Member)
- Stephen Franks (List Member)
- Rodney Hide (List Member)
- Richard Prebble (List Member)
- Heather Roy (List Member)
- Ken Shirley (List Member)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (7)
- Dr Sue Bradford (List Member)
- Rod Donald (List Member)
- Ian Ewen-Street (List Member)
- Jeanette Fitzsimons (List Member)
- Keith Locke (List Member)
- Metiria Turei (List Member)
- Mike Ward (List Member)
New Zealand National Party (6)
- Don Brash (List Member)
- John Key (Member for Helensville)
- Murray McCully (Member for East Coast Bays)
- Lockwood Smith (Member for Rodney)
- Maurice Williamson (Member for Pakuranga)
- Pansy Wong (List Member)
Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition (1)
- Matt Robson (List Member)
United Future New Zealand (1)
- Marc Alexander (List Member)
✕ Noes (60)
New Zealand Labour Party (26)
- Rick Barker (Member for Tukituki)
- Ashraf Choudhary (List Member)
- Clayton Cosgrove (Member for Waimakariri)
- Hon Sir Michael Cullen (List Member)
- Lianne Dalziel (Member for Christchurch East)
- Harry Duynhoven (Member for New Plymouth)
- Taito Phillip Field (Member for Māngere)
- Martin Gallagher (Member for Hamilton West)
- Vui Mark Gosche (Member for Maungakiekie)
- Ann Hartley (Member for Northcote)
- Parekura Horomia (Member for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti)
- Darren Hughes (Member for Ōtaki)
- Annette King (Member for Rongotai)
- Janet Mackey (Member for East Coast)
- Hon Nanaia Mahuta (Member for Tainui)
- Sir Rt Hon Trevor Mallard (Member for Hutt South)
- Hon Damien O'Connor (Member for West Coast-Tasman)
- Hon David Parker (Member for Otago)
- Mark Peck (Member for Invercargill)
- Jill Pettis (Member for Whanganui)
- Mita Ririnui (Member for Waiariki)
- H V Ross Robertson (Member for Manukau East)
- Jim Sutton (Member for Aoraki)
- Paul Swain (Member for Rimutaka)
- Margaret Wilson (List Member)
- Dianne Yates (Member for Hamilton East)
New Zealand National Party (20)
- 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)
- Wayne Mapp (Member for North Shore)
- 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)
- Hon Dr Nick Smith (Member for Nelson)
- Roger Sowry (List Member)
- Lindsay Tisch (Member for Piako)
- Richard Worth (Member for Epsom)
United Future New Zealand (7)
- Paul Adams (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)
New Zealand First Party (3)
- Bill Gudgeon (List Member)
- Hon Ron Mark (List Member)
- Craig McNair (List Member)
ACT New Zealand (2)
- Donna Awatere Huata (List Member)
- Muriel Newman (List Member)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (1)
- Sue Kedgley (List Member)
Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition (1)
- Hon Jim Anderton (Member for Wigram)