OPINION: If there is one thing that Friday’s anti-smacking referendum will never influence it is those morons who believe that a corrective smack on a child’s bottom constitutes child abuse. The country has rejected this absurd correlation. But it...

Dr. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Seminary and an extremely gifted thinker and communicator has a page on smacking in NZ here: http://www.albertmohler.com/radio_show.php?cdate=2009-08-21 New Zealand has voted on a referendum on their...

Madeleine writes… Dear National Party Caucus 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...

The public have spoken. 87.6 percent of New Zealanders want the law that has banned smacking changed. They want to go back to the common sense situation that existed before Parliament saw fit to pass Sue Bradford’s repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes...

Stuff.co.nz 21/08/2009 Almost 90 percent of people who participated in a referendum asking New Zealanders whether smacking should be illegal have voted no, preliminary results show. A total of 1,622,150 votes were cast with 87.6 percent in favour of...