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  • Cabinet Minister’s Smacking Law Comments Welcomed

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    MEDIA RELEASE 1 June 2009 Cabinet Minister’s Smacking Law Comments Welcomed Family First NZ is welcoming comments made by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett in a radio interview over the weekend. When a caller to the programme on Newstalk ZB asked the Minister whether she thought a smack as part of good parental correction should…

  • Ads taken out for ‘anti-smacking’ repeal

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    http://www.stuff.co.nz/4841414a11.html Ads taken out for ‘anti-smacking’ repeal Sunday, 08 February 2009 Lobby group Family First has placed advertisements in all three Sunday newspapers calling for the repeal of the “anti-smacking law”. The advertisement described four cases where parents were investigated by Child, Youth and Family following the repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act,…

  • Bradford Encourages Parents to Carry On Smacking

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    From: http://christiannews.co.nz/2008/bradford-encourages-parents-to-carry-on-smacking/ Bradford Encourages Parents to Carry On Smacking In a stunning turnaround, Green MP Sue Bradford has told parents that smacking is not a criminal offence and implied that groups like Barnardos, Plunket, Every Child Counts and politicians who have said that the aim of the law was to ban parents physically punishing their…

  • ACT will repeal the anti-smacking legislation

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    FROM: http://clintheine.blogspot.com/2008/09/rodneys-pearls-of-wisdom.html On Kiwiblog today, there was a comment that ACT were only interested in “slogans not policy”… which of course I don’t agree is true. However Rodney (what other political party leader would be bothered to write a rebuttal??) got online and posted these words of wisdom: I am not an expert on law…

  • Cindy Kiro’s got her hand in your wallet

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    This blog is worth reading: http://libertyscott.blogspot.com/2008/08/cindy-kiros-got-her-hand-in-your-wallet.html

  • A great post from darrenrickard.blogspot

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    A great post from darrenrickard.blogspot http://darrenrickard.blogspot.com/2008/07/param-namemovie-value.html Helen Clark stares down the barrel and lies I don’t usually post You Tube stuff here but this one is a gem of a home video. From Gyon Espiner from TV One news from last year. Ms Clark says in similar words that, she would never like to see…

  • Anti-smacking referendum timing (2)

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    From: http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/?p=452 So the PM says she will get the Governor General to order that a postal poll be held next year. Parliament can stymie that scheme too. Section 22AB allows a majority vote in Parliament to require that the last day of postal voting be the date of the general election. The words are…

  • Joe Bennett Unleashed

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    From: http://www.starstuddedsuperstep.com/2008/06/joe-bennett-unleashed.html A brilliant excerpt from an interview with Joe Bennett, aptly entitled, “Joe Bennett Unleashed” – written up by Zoe George, and found in the April/May 2008 edition of the Canterbury Today business magazine. Child abuse is a topic of great discussion among New Zealanders, particularly in the wake of Sue Bradford’s controversial anti-smacking…

  • Blog:savethehumans-Do We Need More Smacking?

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    Do We Need More Smacking? From: http://savethehumans.typepad.com/weblog/2008/05/do-we-need-more-smacking.html Few parents are keen on smacking as a first resort form of punishment, but as a useful threat or for an immediate impact most parents keep it in reserve, especially for younger children. Smacking has perhaps been banned in New Zealand. I say perhaps because there is widespread…