Category: Section 59 – The Bill
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Referendum/Section 59 – The way forward.
The way forward. After 27 months of opinion poll after opinion poll recording an average 80% disapproval of the anti-smacking law, the people of New Zealand have spoken loud and clear to their House of Representatives. By an overwhelming majority they have said they do not want parents criminalised for smacking their children when this…
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Key says no to changing smacking law
Key says no to changing smacking law http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/2776861/Key-says-no-to-changing-smacking-law By TOM FITZSIMONS, COLIN ESPINER and CLIO FRANCIS – The Dominion Post Smacking referendum results by electorates Pro-smacking campaigners are calling on the Government to fast-track a law change to allow parents to smack their children, after a thumping referendum victory. But Prime Minister John Key says…
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Massive NO to Anti-Smacking Law Politicians Must Listen
87.6% 87.6% 87.6% Family First Media Release Friday 21 August Massive NO to Anti-Smacking Law Politicians Must Listen 1. Amend Law 2. Establish Non-Political Commission of Enquiry into Child Abuse Family First NZ is welcoming the result of the anti-smacking Referendum and says that it is now time for the politicians to respect the…
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Anti-smacking referendum: No vote wins
Anti-smacking referendum: No vote wins http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/2776567/Anti-smacking-referendum-No-vote-wins By MICHAEL FOX – Stuff.co.nz Last updated 20:03 21/08/2009 New Zealanders have overwhelmingly voted for the anti-smacking law to be canned. A total of 1,622,150 votes were cast with 87.6 percent in favour of repealing the controversial new law. The Chief Electoral Office said it would now complete checks…
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Anti-smacking side concede loss likely
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/2773068/Anti-smacking-side-concede-loss-likely Anti-smacking side concede loss likely By MICHAEL FOX – Stuff.co.nz HOT ISSUE: Larry Baldock with boxes of petitions in 2008. The petition, circulated nationwide, led to the referendum. Campaigners on both sides of the smacking debate believe a referendum result due out tonight will be a victory for those who opposed a controversial 2007…
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Children’s rights in the society
Ruby Harrold-Claesson sent us this translated article: http://www.nkmr.org/english/childrens_rights_in_the_society.htm Children’s rights in the society By Annette Westöö, Göteborg This year, marks the thirtieth year since Sweden became the first in the world to prohibit child-smacking. The law has attracted much attention internationally and Sweden is considered in large parts of the world as a pioneer country…
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CYF boss apologies after parents go public – not for wrongdoing, but because those his department hassled were “upset”.
FROM Big News blog – read the comments on Big News as well: http://big-news.blogspot.com/2009/07/cyf-boss-apologies-after-parents-go.html CYF boss apologies after parents go public – not for wrongdoing, but because those his department hassled were “upset”. A parent tells how he smacked his child “I grabbed hold of her ankle and smacked her bottom” Two of his fingers…
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DEATH OF THE ADULT – THE IMPACT OF POP CULTURE ON MODERN SOCIETY AND THE REPEAL OF S59
http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=122aa520f2a4cb0d&mt=application%2Fpdf DEATH OF THE ADULT – THE IMPACT OF POP CULTURE ON MODERN SOCIETY AND THE REPEAL OF S59 KEAH? – HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? WHEN GOOD BECAME BAD! By Stephen Dol NZCBC, Research Analyst. stephen.dol@thinkingezy.co.nz Michael Jackson sung the song “Bad”, which really meant “Good”. That’s confusing and so is the opposition to the…
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Family Integrity #464 — McCoskrie Meeting invitation
Family Integrity #464 — McCoskrie Meeting invitation See below. Craig & Barbara Smith
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Police in Christchurch on Smacking
Keep listening – it is less than 1 minute Police on smacking.mp3 (audio/mpeg) 144K . .