Tag: Section 59
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Family First Welcomes Bill to Fix Smacking Law
MEDIA RELEASE 19 March 2009 Family First Welcomes Bill to Fix Smacking Law Family First NZ is ‘stoked’ that ACT List MP John Boscawen has announced his intention to introduce a Private Members Bill to amend the anti-smacking law. “Our polling along with every other poll done over the past 3 years shows that approximately…
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Amendment To Fix Broken Anti-Smacking Law
Amendment To Fix Broken Anti-Smacking Law Immediate Release: Thursday March 19, 2009 ACT New Zealand MP John Boscawen today announced that he will introduce a Private Member’s Bill to amend the controversial Anti-Smacking law inflicted on New Zealanders by Labour and the Greens in 2007. “My announcement coincides with yesterday’s release of a poll that…
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FAMILY FIRST NZ – Massive support for law change
Press Release from Family First NZ We thought you’d be interested in our (Family First NZ) latest Media Release. Feel free to forward it on to your local MP and others on your Contacts list. PS If you support the work and ‘voice’ of Family First NZ and would be willing to contribute towards the…
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Child Abuse Death Rate Is Killing Us
MEDIA RELEASE 11 March 2009 Child Abuse Death Rate Is Killing Us Family First NZ says that the police announcement of a homicide investigation into the death of Taupo five-week-old Jayrhis Ian Te Koha Lock-Tata is a tragic reminder that the rate of child abuse deaths has continued at the same rate as before the…
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Fitzsimons to resign as Greens co-leader
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4856034a6160.html Fitzsimons to resign as Greens co-leader By ANTHONY HUBBARD – Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 22 February 2009 Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is about to announce her resignation from the post. She will stand down to allow a new co-leader time to make her mark before the 2011 election. The veteran Green, co-leader since…
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Ads taken out for ‘anti-smacking’ repeal
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,…