Tag: Section 59
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Discredited Anti-Smacking Advocate Back in NZ
MEDIA RELEASE July 2008 Discredited Anti-Smacking Advocate Back in NZ Family First NZ says that Canadian researcher Joan Durrant, who is currently in NZ as a guest of the anti-smacking lobby, has been discredited with her claims made during the anti-smacking debate. “In fact, her evidence was not even accepted in her home country of…
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Muriel Newman: Moral Neutrality
h ttp://www.nzcpr.com/weekly139.htm Parliament 20 July 2008 Moral Neutrality Earlier this month Britain’s culture of “moral neutrality” came under attack. In a speech in Glasgow, Conservative Party Leader Rt Hon David Cameron said that the obese, drug addicts and the poor have no-one to blame but themselves. He defined moral neutrality as the refusal to make…
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More Support for Referendum
http://republicans.org.nz/2008/mt-albert-launch-wayne-hawkins/ Remember Sue Bradford’s amendment to the Crimes Act, the anti smacking bill? Eighty per cent of you said you didn’t want it. So what did the parliamentarians do? They passed it against your wishes. That bill should have gone to a binding National Referendum. You should have a chance to have your say. If…
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Nats won’t change child-discipline law, says Key
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 the controversial…
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Six Month Review of the s59 Amendment (Anti-smacking Bill)
http://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/4027.html 5:05pm 23 June 2008 Police have undertaken a second review of the amendment of section 59 of the Crimes Act (the Smacking Bill) covering the period 29 September 2007 to 4 April 2008. This review covers a period of just over six months. In order to make comparisons with the initial three month review,…