Tag: Voting
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Persecution of Parents To Be Investigated by National
MEDIA RELEASE 5 November 2008 Persecution of Parents To Be Investigated by National Family First NZ is welcoming comments by senior National MP Judith Collins that if elected, National will check whether the anti-smacking law has resulted in needless prosecutions and persecution of parents. “We have stacks of evidence and testimony that good families have…
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Stick that could yet beat Clark
Stick that could yet beat Clark The smacking bill passed with a hefty majority in Parliament, but it has left a deep schism through middle New Zealand. Politicians from both major parties are resolutely refusing to make it an election issue, but it just won’t go away By EMILY WATT – The Dominion Post |…
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Home discipline still a hot topic
Home discipline still a hot topic 4:00AM Saturday Oct 25, 2008 By Carroll du Chateau The debate has yet to die down. Photo / BOP Times Election ’08: Party policies in detail The Smacking Debate What the parties say about the smacking law In a year when the morals and ethics of our political parties…
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National Adopts ‘We Know Better Than You’ Attitude
MEDIA RELEASE 22 October 2008 National Adopts ‘We Know Better Than You’ Attitude Family First NZ is labeling comments made by National leader John Key in the Dominion Post today regarding the anti-smacking law and Referendum as disappointing and deaf to the views of the overwhelming majority of NZ parents. “It was hoped that National…
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Marriage Breakdown Costing Taxpayers At Least $1 Billion a Year
MEDIA RELEASE – 20 October 2008 Marriage Breakdown Costing Taxpayers At Least $1 Billion a Year In the first research of its kind in NZ, a new report estimates that the fiscal cost to the taxpayer of family breakdown and decreasing marriage rates is at least $1 billion per year and has cost approximately $8…
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ACT campaign launch: We provide the spine
http://www.stuff.co.nz/vote08/4724654a28435.html ACT campaign launch: We provide the spine 12 October 2008 ACT has launched its election campaign with leader Rodney Hide saying only his party can put some backbone into a National-led government. Act’s launch at the Alexandra Park Raceway in Auckland started a day of launches which also sees Labour, National and United Future…
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Another Smacking Poll – Same Response
MEDIA RELEASE 29 September 2008 Another Smacking Poll – Same Response Family First NZ says that the NZ Herald poll showing 86% opposition to the anti-smacking law is further proof that the law is fundamentally wrong and should be changed. “This is not 86% of NZ’ers who want to ‘thrash and beat’ their children as…