Family First Archive

  • Metiria Turei

    The smacking lobby ignores 8 positive reviews of S59 - by Metiria Turei



    After the latest report on Section 59 from the Prime Minister’s taskforce you would think that the media would stop calling the circus performers whose only interest is in keeping the circus going. The review included Dr Nigel Latta – someone who had voted against the law in the recent referendum. However, to his credit [...] read more
    December 8, 2009 7:13 pm - 23 Comments
  • frog

    What do the kids think? - by frog



    Family First have made much of various opinion polls, many (like their referendum question) leading in their questions and some dodgy in their methodology, in advocating that parents have a “right” to hit their children. Little has been said about what children think about the issue, despite New Zealand having ratified the United Nations Convention [...] read more
    June 24, 2009 3:17 pm - 337 Comments
  • frog

    The ‘right to beat your child’ petition - by frog



    Family First is fairly certain that it is going to reach the threshold 300,000 necessary signatures on its petitions to initiate a Citizen Initiated Referendum.  This would allow its referenda to join the exhalted heights of the three other referenda questions of our time where we got to vote on how many firefighters we should [...] read more
    January 29, 2008 2:01 pm - 46 Comments
  • frog

    A rose by any other name - by frog



    Some on the right of the blogosphere seem to think that the Greens have done a backroom deal with Labour to get the Electoral Finance Bill through.  Well, it’s time I confessed.  I, Frog, did try to do a backroom deal with Annette King.  I snuck out of my corner in Bowen House across the [...] read more
    December 4, 2007 10:21 am - 26 Comments