Votes

The Hansard Reporting Service has been kind enough to provide me with the details of last night's voting on amendments to the Care of Children Bill. They note that they have not been proofread, and that there may be errors in the number counts or even the voting records themselves. Still, this is the best I can get until the Hansard Advance comes out next week.

There were three votes of interest. The first was on Supplementary Order Paper 294, from United Future's Murray Smith, proposing that no teenager be permitted to have an abortion without written notification of parental consent.

Ayes (26): Adams, Awatere Huata, Baldock, Brown, Carter J, Catchpole, Collins, Connell, Copeland, Duynhoven, English, Field, Gudgeon, Heatley, Jones, Mark, McNair, Ogilvy, Paraone, Perry, Peters J, Peters W, Smith M, Smith N, Turia, Turner.

Noes (94): Alexander, Anderton, Ardern, Barker, Barnett, Benson-Pope, Beyer, Bradford, Brash, Brownlee, Burton, Carter C, Carter D, Chadwick, Choudhary, Clark, Cosgrove, Coddington, Cullen, Cunliffe, Dalziel, Donald, Donnelly, Duncan, Dunne, Eckhoff, Ewen-Street, Fairbrother, Fitzsimons, Gallagher, Goff, Gosche, Hartley, Hawkins, Hereora, Hide, Hobbs, Hodgson, Horomia, Hughes, Hunt, Hutchison, Kedgley, King, Laban, Locke, Mackey J, Mackey M, Maharey, Mahuta, Mallard, Newman, O'Connor, Okeroa, Parker, Peck, Pettis, Pillay, Prebble, Ririnui, Robertson, Robson, Roy, Samuels, Shirley, Simich, Sowry, Stewart, Sutton, Swain, Tamihere, Tanczos, te Heuheu, Tizard, Turei, Ward, Wilson, Woolerton, Yates.

Apart from the usual suspects from United Future, National, and NZFirst (who really are a bunch of moral neanderthals), there's also two Labour MPS: Harry Duynhoven and Taito Phillip Field. I'm not sure that they're really in the right party. And judging by Tariana Turia's vote, Labour is well rid of her.

(Refreshingly, this was a morally authoritarian motion that was not backed by a single ACT MP. Maybe they're remembering that "liberal" word they claim to be so proud of...)

Two amendments were suggested by National's Judith Collins for a milder regime which still required the notification of a parent or judge. The first vote attempted to insert two clauses.

Ayes (45): Adams, Alexander, Ardern, Awatere Huata, Baldock, Brash, Brown, Brownlee, Carter D, Carter J, Catchpole, Collins, Connell, Copeland, Dunne, Duynhoven, English, Field, Franks, Goudie, Gudgeon, Heatley, Jones, Key, Mapp, Mark, McCully, McNair, Ogilvy, Paraone, Perry, Peters J, Peters W, Power, Rich, Ryall, Scott, Smith L, Smith M, Smith N, Tisch, Turner, Williamson, Wong, Worth.

Noes (75): Anderton, Barker, Barnett, Benson-Pope, Beyer, Bradford, Burton, Carter C, Chadwick, Choudhary, Clark, Coddington, Cosgrove, Cullen, Cunliffe, Dalziel, Donald, Donnelly, Duncan, Dyson, Eckhoff, Ewen-Street, Fairbrother, Fitzsimons, Gallagher, Goff, Gosche, Hartley, Hawkins, Hereora, Hide, Hobbs, Hodgson, Horomia, Hughes, Hunt, Hutchison, Kedgley, King, Laban, Locke, Mackey J, Mackey M, Maharey, Mahuta, Mallard, Newman, O'Connor, Okeroa, Parker, Peck, Pettis, Pillay, Prebble, Ririnui, Robertson, Robson, Roy, Samuels, Shirley, Simich, Sowry, Stewart, Sutton, Swain, Tamihere, Tanczos, te Heuheu, Tizard, Turei, Turia, Ward, Wilson, Woolerton, Yates.

The second vote, on Supplementary Order Paper 293, was almost identical, with Bill English and Hutchison switching positions (so English voted against, and Hutchinson for).

Stephen Franks betrays himself as numbering among the moral conservatives. here the dichotomy between Labour and National couldn't be any more stark, with only the same two labour MPs voting for this, while it was backed by around 80% of National MPs.

There was also a fourth vote, on an amendment proposed by NZFirst's Dail Jones, which was defeated 97 - 22. Unfortunately, I don't know what it was, so I'll hold back on the voting record on that one until I find out whether it is relevant.

Update (06/11/2004): Added links to amendments.