MEDIA RELEASE
29 February 2008
600,000 Signatures Demand Smacking and Child Abuse Referendums
More than 600,000 signatures will be delivered to Parliament today demanding Referendums on the anti-smacking bill and tackling the real causes of child abuse.
When Green Party MP Sue Kedgley presented a 39,000 signature petition last year calling for mandatory country of origin labelling on foods, and when United Future’s Peter Dunne presented a 42,000 signature petition last year calling on daylight saving to be extended by 3 weeks, they both said that the government must listen to the voice of the people.
“These two petitions today each have almost four times the number of signatures of Kedgley and Dunne’s petitions combined.”
“In response to Families Commission research earlier this month that found that 2/3’rds of parents say that the government doesn’t respect their role, they are going to spend almost $1m to tell parents that they do respect them,” says Mr McCoskrie.
“Families don’t want an advertising campaign. They want a law change.”
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