It's good to see the Raise the Drinking Age bill defeated - you can see how individual MPs voted here. As mentioned in an earlier post, this issue provided a fairly good measure of the social liberal or conservativeness of the parliamentary parties, with some split along these lines. Below is a characterisation of the parties based on how their MPs voted on this 'conscience' issue:
Greens 100% liberal
ACT 100% liberal
Labour 70% liberal vs 30% conservative
National 58% liberal vs 42% conservative
United 33% liberal vs 67% conservative
NZ First 100% conservative
Maori 100% conservative
Progressive 100% conservative
