John Boscawen is holding a series of Public Meetings in various locations around New Zealand promoting his Bill to amend s59 of the Crimes Act to legalise the use of some types of reasonable force for the purposes of parental correction. Whilst the government would like everyone to think that this debate is over, Boscawen’s [...]
Entries Tagged as 's59'
Dargaville: Public Meeting on S59
October 10th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: John Boscawen · John Carter · Larry Baldock · s59 · Smacking
Hamilton: Public Meeting on S59
September 29th, 2009 1 Comment
John Boscawen is holding a series of Public Meetings in various locations around New Zealand promoting his Bill to amend s59 of the Crimes Act to legalise the use of some types of reasonable force for the purposes of parental correction. Whilst the government would like everyone to think that this debate is over, Boscawen’s [...]
Tags: Bob McCoskrie · John Boscawen · Larry Baldock · s59 · Smacking · Tim Macindoe
Tauranga: Public Meeting on S59
September 29th, 2009 No Comments
John Boscawen is holding a series of Public Meetings in various locations around New Zealand promoting his Bill to amend s59 of the Crimes Act to legalise the use of some types of reasonable force for the purposes of parental correction. Whilst the government would like everyone to think that this debate is over, Boscawen’s [...]
Tags: Bob McCoskrie · John Boscawen · Larry Baldock · s59 · Simon Bridges · Smacking
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
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 [...]
Tags: Bob McCoskrie · Fitzgerald v Muldoon · Jim Evans · John Boscawen · John Key · Larry Baldock · Referenda · s59 · Smacking
Monday Night: John Boscawen, Bob McCoskrie and Jim Evans on Amending s59
September 4th, 2009 5 Comments
Fresh from Facebook’s “5000 Demanding Anti Smacking Law Change” group is this invitation: ACT MP John Boscawen is holding a series of public debates on the smacking referendum result and how his bill to amend S59 will bring the legislation into line with public opinion. John Boscawen will be holding the first debate in Phil [...]
Tags: ACT Party · Bob McCoskrie · Events · Jim Evans · John Boscawen · Parental Freedom · Phil Goff · Referendum · s59 · Smacking
Dear Cabinet,
August 24th, 2009 7 Comments
I am a mother of 4; I am currently doing the last few papers of my law degree at Auckland Uni, I voted “no” in the referendum, I voted for you to govern at the last election. I am sure you are getting a lot of emails, however, as you deliberate as to how to [...]
Tags: Referendum · s59 · Smacking
Jim Evans Decisively Smacks John Roughan
August 6th, 2009 11 Comments
On Saturday the NZ Herald’s John Roughan demonstrated why journalists should not engage in legal interpretation in his widely criticised piece on the smacking referendum, “Sinister undertones to referendum instigator.” At the time I struggled to ascertain whether Roughan was being deliberately deceptive or he just didn’t get it. He essentially quoted the non-controversial, much [...]
Tags: Jim Evans · John Roughan · Referendum · s59 · Smacking
Just Voted in the Smacking Referendum
July 31st, 2009 9 Comments
Our voting papers for the smacking referendum arrived in this afternoon’s post. Matt managed to make it home just before the post shop closed so our completed ballots are already in the mail on their way back to the Returning Officer. It was easy; no driving, no parking, no queuing, no mucking around with ID. [...]
Tags: Referendum · s59 · Smacking
(dis)Honest to God: How Not to Argue about the Smacking Referendum
July 28th, 2009 73 Comments
Given that yesterday we advertised Dr Glenn Peoples’ upcoming public lectures and because the smacking referendum begins on Saturday, I thought we’d share this article critiquing bad anti-smacking reasoning by Glenn. (dis)Honest to God: How Not to Argue about the Smacking Referendum Ian Harris tells us (“Honest to God,” Dominion Post, [Dominion Post. Saturday July [...]
Tags: Glenn Peoples · Ian Harris · Referendum · s59 · Smacking
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