s59 Archive

  • Metiria Turei

    Praise, encouragement, and keeping our kids safe this Children’s Day - by Metiria Turei



    It’s Children’s Day today, a great day to recommit to protecting and caring for not just our own babies but for children everywhere. This year is the 10th anniversary of Children’s Day in Aotearoa New Zealand, which aims to: • heighten awareness of the importance and needs of children in society, and ways of promoting [...] read more
    March 7, 2010 11:18 am - 32 Comments
  • 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
  • Metiria Turei

    Green law is helping to keep children safe - by Metiria Turei



    It was great to see the Ministry of Social Development report released yesterday confirming that our law to help keep children safe is working. read more
    November 12, 2009 12:11 pm - 26 Comments
  • frog

    Sue Bradford says goodbye - by frog



    There is so much I could say and and want to say, but Wednesday was Sue Bradford’s day for a last word. Here is her valedictory speech. Kia kaha Sue! read more
    October 30, 2009 10:32 am - 93 Comments
  • frog

    The right to hit cats - by frog



    At Tuesday night’s launch of the book Unreasonable Force, Labour’s Ruth Dyson threw out a challenge for a brave, true and god-fearing blogger to pick up. She noted that at the moment, it is a criminal offence for ordinary god-fearing cat owners to hit, kick or otherwise beat their cats as a part of good [...] read more
    February 21, 2008 9:10 am - 48 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