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    FI417-Family Flees Before Children Taken

    Thursday, July 10th, 2008

    10 July 2008 - Family Integrity #417 — Family Flees Before Children Taken
    Dear Friends,
    Click this link to Stuff’s video page and watch the one titled: Family flees before children taken
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/0a15455.html
    or
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/videoplayer/129171a15455.html
    It is a shocker.

    Family First’s Bob McCoskrie wrote the following about it:

    MEDIA RELEASE
    10 July 2008
    Close Up Case Highlights [...]

    Queensland - Laws a legal minefield: lawyer

    Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

    http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/antismacking-laws-a-legal-minefield-lawyer/2008/06/30/1214677902879.html
    Laws a legal minefield: lawyer
    Christine Kellett | June 30, 2008 - 11:59AM
    Anti-smacking laws to punish Queensland parents who used “excessive force” to discipline their children could be too hard to prosecute, a lawyer has warned.
    Moves by the Labor Party to toughen its stance on smacking were made at its state conference earlier this month, with [...]

    Anti-Smacking Law Confirmed as Wasting Valuable CYF Time

    Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

    MEDIA RELEASE
    8 July 2008
    Anti-Smacking Law Confirmed as Wasting Valuable CYF Time
    Family First NZ says that the evidence is in that CYF’s limited resources are being wasted, with a ‘blow-out’ in CYF notifications but the levels of actual abuse not increasing, or at worst not being caught.
    “This is perfect proof [...]

    Larry Baldock: “You will not drown out the voice of the people”

    Monday, July 7th, 2008

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/4610385a6502.html
    Kiwi Party singles out drugs, booze
    By GRANT MILLER - Manawatu Standard | Monday, 07 July 2008
    Random drug-testing in schools, violent criminals losing any right to parole and increasing the penalty for class A drug manufacture and distribution to the same as murder are the planks of a hardline law and order policy from the Kiwi [...]

    People Should Have A Say On Anti-Smacking Law

    Monday, June 30th, 2008

    Immediate Release: Tuesday, June 24 2008

    People Should Have A Say On Anti-Smacking Law

    Prime Minister Helen Clark is completely wrong to prevent New Zealanders from having a vote on Labour’s controversial anti-smacking legislation, ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today.
    “The anti-smacking law has clearly failed to stop child abuse – just as ACT said it [...]

    Nats won’t change child-discipline law, says Key

    Thursday, June 26th, 2008

    Family First:
    We have been asked on a number of occasions where does National stand on the anti-smacking law, and will they change it if elected as the government.
    Here’s the answer…
    Nats won’t change child-discipline law, says Key
    The Press 26 June 2008
    National Party leader John Key has ruled out overturning [...]

    FI414-FAMILY FIRST - Please join our call

    Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

    26 June 2008 - Family Integrity #414 — FAMILY FIRST - Please join our call
    Dear Friends,
    Let me encourage you to please join this call to get some MPs to force the referendum to go though at the same time as the election in November.
    There are only 7 MPs to email. [...]

    John Armstrong: Election needn’t delay smacking referendum

    Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/466/story.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10518214
    Wednesday June 25, 2008 By John Armstrong

    Your Views
    Do you support another attempt at a referendum on child discipline laws?

    Send us Your Views
    Read Your Views

    Register for Your Views

    The Smacking Debate

    Key backs election smacking referendum

    Unless the Prime Minister is planning to go to the country much earlier than everyone expects, her assertion that it is not [...]

    Key calls for smacking referendum

    Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

    http://www.odt.co.nz/news/politics/10790/key-calls-smacking-referendum?page=0%2C1
    National leader John Key says if campaigners get enough support to force a referendum on so-called smacking laws, the referendum should be held at this year’s election.
    Prime Minister Helen Clark yesterday indicated a referendum was [...]

    FI407-PM Desparate to Shut Down Smacking Referendum

    Monday, June 23rd, 2008

    24 June 2008 - Family Integrity #407 — PM wants to shut down referendum

    The PM has said she reckons there’s not enough time to organise a referendum to occur at the same time as the next general election. What rot. Why is she afraid of the referendum results? Because she knows [...]

    New report shows police are wasting their time

    Monday, June 23rd, 2008

    Kiwi Party Leader and organiser of the petition for a referendum on the Anti-smacking law said the new law is simply wasting the police’s time.
    The Prime Minister has claimed that the police report proves nothing much has changed. “In part I agree with her,” said Mr Baldock.
    The police report does [...]

    Govt creating renegade generation

    Monday, June 23rd, 2008

    THE FAMILY PARTY
    http://www.thefamilyparty.org.nz

    Govt creating renegade generation

    24 June 2008. The Family Party is calling on the Prime Minister to acknowledge the concerns of the majority of New Zealanders by holding the smacking referendum at the General Election.

    In today’s NZ Herald Prime Minister Helen Clark has virtually [...]

    Michael laws on Radio Live right now

    Monday, June 23rd, 2008

    Michael laws is on Radio Live right now. Ring in now about the CIR Referendum. Make your voice known about having the Referendum at the same time as the elections.
    The question being asked here this morning is “Have you changed how you discipline your children since Section 59 has been amended.”
    You can listen here:
    http://www.radiolive.co.nz/

    Substantial Jump in Parents Being Investigated for Smacking

    Monday, June 23rd, 2008

    MEDIA RELEASE
    23 June 2008

    Family First NZ says that the police report on the effects of the anti-smacking law shows an almost 300% jump in the number of parents being investigated for minor acts of physical discipline since the law was passed.
    “The six month review of police activity following the passing [...]

    Police attended 288 child assault incidents in six months

    Monday, June 23rd, 2008

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/4593757a10.html
    Material provided by the Government showed over the six months between September and April police attended 288 child assault incidents.
    In the three months prior to this 111 incidents were attended.
    Of the 288 incidents, 13 involved “smacking”,
    This was up from three in the previous period.
    None of the incidents resulted in a prosecution.
    Of the 288 incidents, 69 [...]

    FI406-We got the numbers on the Petition!

    Monday, June 23rd, 2008

    24 June 2008 - Family Integrity #406 — We got the numbers!

    The Kiwi Party
    They will not drown out the voice of the people!
    Kiwi Party Leader and Tauranga electorate candidate Larry Baldock will today resubmit to the Clerk of the House the petition calling for a referendum on the Anti-smacking law that was [...]

    Large Stack of Signatures Confirms Referendum at Election

    Monday, June 23rd, 2008

    MEDIA RELEASE
    23 June 2008

    (petition to be presented on steps of Parliament at 12.30pm)
    Large Stack of Signatures Confirms Referendum at Election
    Family First NZ says that the extra ‘stack’ of signatures on the petition opposing the anti-smacking law and being presented at Parliament today confirms that the politicians failed to [...]

    Child discipline law one year old tomorrow

    Friday, June 20th, 2008

    http://www.odt.co.nz/news/politics/10397/child-discipline-law-one-year-old-tomorrow
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/4591239a11.html

    Fri, 20 Jun 2008

    As the first anniversary of the so-called anti-smacking legislation rolls around, campaigners will again present a petition trying to get the law overturned.
    But the architect of the bill, Green MP Sue Bradford, says [...]

    Sports & Fielddays Crowds Give CIR Petition Huge Boost

    Sunday, June 15th, 2008

    http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0806/S00175.htm
    Sports and Fielddays Crowds Give
    Anti-Smacking Petition Huge Boost
    Family First Media Release 15 June 2008
    Family First NZ says that the numbers of signatures on the petition against the anti-smacking law and demanding a Referendum at the upcoming Election has been hugely boosted by a number of large [...]

    HELEN CLARK IN 1998

    Thursday, June 12th, 2008

    13 Jun 2008
    Hi Barbara,
    Who said it????

    “She wants to busy herself with what goes on in the homes of the nation in areas which families regard as their own responsibility, and I think she’s going over a very dangerous line.”

    Who said this? HELEN CLARK IN 1998
    Who was she referring to? JENNY SHIPLEY - THE [...]

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