Monday April 16th, 2007. 3:53 pm by Russel Norman
Here is a report from Triangle TV’s Darpan Local News about the public meeting in Auckland in support of electrifying the Auckland rail network - the electrification item starts about 10mins 20s into the bulletin. 200 people at the meeting was a good turnout, let’s hope it translates into action soon.
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April 17th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Dr Sharples said their support for the bill was based on several principles but he acknowledged there was a lot of opposition to their stance.
The first principle was that in New Zealand animals and adults are protected from being hurt by law, but children are not because of the loophole that the “reasonable force” section of the Crimes Act sometimes gives people who hurt them.
Secondly, he argued that there was a clear link between smacking children and the development in children of violent tendencies.
There were other ways of dealing with problems with children, such as talking problems through, he said.
“Perhaps we should try a non-violent New Zealand. Why not? We lead the world in lots of other ways.”
Good tactic, refer obliquely to the arguments, and avoid having to address whether those arguments were soundly made, or not. Ignore the fact that all these points have been chewed over and spat out before. Appropriate Decision Making ??? , I think not, disingenuous debate, I think yes.
jh
April 17th, 2007 at 10:24 am
that comment was meant for Snippets.