Last night’s meeting with John Boscawen, Bob McCoskrie, Jim Evans and Larry Baldock on amending s59 of the Crimes Act to decriminalise the use of reasonable force for the purposes of parental correction was encouraging. The main themes I came away with from each speaker were: John Boscawen – ACT Party MP John Boscawen has […]
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A Review of Last Night’s Boscawen, McCoskrie, Evans, Baldock Meeting UPDATED
September 8th, 2009 46 Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XFaxThapdQ&feature=player_embedded”>watch
Tags: Bob McCoskrie · Fitzgerald v Muldoon · Jim Evans · John Boscawen · John Key · Larry Baldock · Referenda · s59 · Smacking
Moral Issues and Direct Democracy
December 8th, 2008 10 Comments
I have been involved in a discussion over at MacDoctor Moments on various aspects of the abortion debate, though in this post I don’t want to talk about that issue. In the course of this discussion Chuck advocated for a policy of direct democracy to decide moral issues and it is this that I want […]
Tags: Chuck Bird · MacDoctor · Paul Wolff · Plato · Public Policy · Referenda
Christchurch Event: John Boscawen, David Garrett, Larry Baldock on s59
September 16th, 2009 4 Comments
Recently I attended a public meeting in support of John Boscawen’s Bill to restore the right of parents to use reasonable force for the purposes of correction in the course of parenting removed by the current s59 of the Crimes Act. This Bill will be voted on shortly and for those of us who voted […]
Tags: David Garrett · John Boscawen · John Key · Larry Baldock · Referenda · s59 · Smacking