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Minister confirms no NZ Court ruling on meaning of S. 59 re "a person in the place of a parent"

By David | Published: June 6, 2006

  Office of Hon Mark Burton, M.P. for Taupo. Minister of Justice. 6 June 2006. Dear DavidThank you for your email of 22 February 2006 regarding section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961. Your email to the Associate Minister for Social Development and Employment has been referred to me for direct response as these matters [...]

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‘Anti-Smacking’ Lobby Submissions Analysed

By David | Published: May 29, 2006

Family Integrity representatives attended the first sitting of the Justice and Electoral Select Committee last Thursday to consider submissions on MP Sue Bradford’s Bill to repeal Section 59. It was a showcase of the “heavies” lined up in favour of repeal: Save the Children, EPOCH, Familes Commission, UNICEF, Parent.org, Barnardos, Relationship Services, CCS, IHC and [...]

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Society exposes NZ Aids Foundation’s failed policies on HIV/AIDS prevention

By David | Published: May 18, 2006

  Press Release 19/05/06 The NZ AIDS Foundation’s (NZAF) response to the SPCS press release (Scoop 12/05/06) that dealt with NZAF’s promotion of condoms to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission, demonstrates why this homosexual-lobby fringe group is so ineffective in reducing this growing health crisis amongst the “gay” community.

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Society Responds to NZ AIDS Foundation’s Spurious Claims

By David | Published: May 11, 2006

  Press Release 12/05/06 The New Zealand AIDS Foundation strongly rejects claims that its new “safe sex” advertisement, featured in the latest issue of gay magazine Jack, is pornographic (Scoop 11/05). This is about as true as their spurious claim that condoms will prevent the transmission of the HIV virus.

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Society responds to Whitcoulls and Chief Censor over "gay" magazine row

By David | Published: May 10, 2006

Press Release: 11 May 2006The Society has written an open letter to Whitcoulls (NZ) congratulating its management for refusing to stock the “gay” magazine JACK. It has responded to the arguments put forward by Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, that sexually explicit NZ AIDS Foundation ads in the magazine promoting ‘safe-sex’ via condom use are in [...]

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Official Information Request to Minister Rick Barker and Department of Internal Affairs

By David | Published: May 9, 2006

10 May 2006 Official Information Request: 14 Questions Attention: Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. Rick Barker and the Chief Executive of the Department of Internal Affairs, Mr Christopher Blake Re: Appointment process involving eight vacancies on the Film and Literature Board of Review Dear Sirs, The Society’s national executive is seeking urgent answers to the [...]

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Censors’ rehiring upsets watchdog

By David | Published: May 8, 2006

The Dominion Post May 9 2006 (p. A4) By ANNA CHALMERS The reappointment of a government censorship board has been met with dismay by a community watchdog, which has called the process a “sham”. Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker announced yesterday that all eight existing members of the Film and Literature Board of Review would [...]

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Hon Rick Barker Announces Board Appointments

By David | Published: May 8, 2006

Hon Rick Barker Announces Appointments to the NZ Film and Literature Board of Review Hon Rick Barker 8/05/06 Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker has announced appointments to the Film and Literature Board of Review. http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=25672 The Film and Literature Board of Review is a statutory appeal body. It examines publications already classified by the Office [...]

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Deputy Chief Censor Vacancy and Minister’s Failure

By David | Published: May 1, 2006

Press Release 3/05/06 The Society is calling on the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. Rick Barker, to replace the Deputy Chief Censor of Film and Literature, Ms Nicola McCully whose statutory position became vacant on 17 September 2005, over seven and a half months ago. The Minister has failed in his statutory duty to [...]

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Minister defends Objectionable and Obscene Filth

By David | Published: April 8, 2006

See how Minister of Internal Affairs – Hon Rick Barker – defends Objectionable and Obscene Filth. Saturday, 08 April 2006 See from the Hansard Record how the Minister of Internal Affairs – Hon Rick Barker – defends Objectionable and Obscene Moral Filth that degrades and dehumanises women………. OFLC Reports of sexually explicit R18 DVDs and [...]

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Society’s complaint to Broadcaster over "Bloody Mary"

By David | Published: March 30, 2006

Society’s letter of complaint to CanWest Media Works over “South Park’s” episode “Bloody Mary” Thursday, 30 March 2006 Society president Mike Petrus says: “It is a sad indictment of the Standards Committee of the TV Channel C4, that it has failed to concede that any aspect of the contents of the “South Park” episode “Bloody [...]

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Minister’s failure re 22 month-old Board vacancies

By David | Published: March 22, 2006

Minister of Internal Affairs fails in statutory duty over 22 month-old vacancies on Board Media Release 22/03/06 The terms of office of eight members of the Film and Literature Board of Review expired almost 22 months ago and yet the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. Rick Barker, has failed to either reappoint them or replace [...]

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Film Board Appointments Soon

By David | Published: March 22, 2006

Department claims Ministers will be in a position to consider possible Board appointments “soon” Wednesday, 22 March 2006 Response from Department of Internal Affairs To Information Request from National Secretary Society for the Promotion of Community Standards Inc

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Chief Censors’ denial of involvement in banning religious videos is proved false

By David | Published: March 6, 2006

“Censors and Videotapes”Letters to the EditorThe NZ Herald, 6/03/06 Chief Censor Bill Hastings says that columnist Jim Hopkins’ attempt at satire over South Park evaporates in the harsh light of truth because he did not ban religious videotapes to which Hopkins refers. Hastings’ claim is disingenuous. He was largely responsible for writing the decision that [...]

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NZ Police confirm repeal of s. 59 criminalises parents who discipline by smacking

By David | Published: February 24, 2006

Friday, 24 February 2006 On 11 August 2005, Dr A Jack of the Legal Services of the NZ Police, wrote to Mr Craig S. Smith, National Director Family Integrity. His letter, which has been brought to the attention of parliament by Judith Collins MP, is reproduced below with minor editorial additions in square brackets that [...]

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Demographic Data Sought Urgently on Chief Censor’s Office

By David | Published: February 3, 2006

Media Release 3/02/06 The Society executive has requested the following information today from the Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, in an Official Information Request, marked “URGENT”. (1) Basic data on gender, ethnicity, religious affiliation, sexual orientation for all those employed as classification officers, information unit and complaints officers in the Office of Film and Literature Classification [...]

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CRITIC – Otago Uni Students’ Mag – banned by Censor’s Office

By David | Published: February 1, 2006

Media Release 1/02/06 In a decision dated 31 January 2006 and signed by the Chief Censor of Film and Literature, Bill Hastings, the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) has ruled that the Otago University Student Association’s Magazine CRITIC TE AROHI (Issue 23, Sept 19, 2005) is “objectionable” in terms of section 3(2)(b) and [...]

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Minister says position of Deputy Chief Censor “is not vacant”

By David | Published: January 31, 2006

Media Release 31/01/06 In a letter dated 30 January 2006 the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. Rick Barker, has replied to the Society’s questions regarding the positions of Deputy Chief Censor and Chief Censor, currently held respectively by Ms Nicola McCully and Mr Bill Hastings. The Minister’s answers to questions put by the Society’s [...]

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Censorship & New Technology

By David | Published: January 30, 2006

Monday, 30 January 2006 Censorship in New Zealand: The Policy Challenges of New Technology by David Wilson, Senior Policy Advisor, Department of Internal Affairs Social Policy Journal of New Zealand Iss. 19, Dec. 2002 http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/ks/exhibits/52/NewZealand_Policy.pdf

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More On $130,000+ Vacant Censor’s Position

By David | Published: January 27, 2006

Media Release 27/01/06 Ms Nicola McCully was appointed to the statutory position of Deputy Chief Censor of Film and Literature on the 17th September 2002 for a period of three years, commencing 1st October 2002. According to the 2003 Annual Report (p. 89) Ms McCully receives a salary package of between $130,00 and $140,000 and [...]

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Inaction on ‘Critic’ case irks Society

By David | Published: January 18, 2006

Otago Daily TimesJanuary 10th 2006 pg 4.By Rebecca FoxThe time it is taking the censor’s office to rule on the September “Offensive Issue” of University of Otago student magazine Critic makes a farce of the process, Society for the Promotion of Community Standards spokesman David Lane says.The Office of Film and Literature Classification received multiple [...]

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Chief Censor’s Office Identifies Film Complaints

By David | Published: November 12, 2005

Saturday, 12 November 2005 The Chief Censors’ Office – the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) – notes in its Annual Report 2005, recently tabled in parliament, that the two films most complained about by members of the public over the last year, were “9 Songs” and “Irreversible”. Both were films that the Society [...]

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Chief Censor’s Misuse of Living Word

By David | Published: November 12, 2005

Saturday, 12 November 2005 In his Office’s Annual Report 2005, the Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, has effectively hailed the 22 February 2005 – the day “the first substantial amendments to the Films, Videos and Publications Classification Act came into force” – as marking a “fresh era” in censorship: “One would be entitled to observe,” he [...]

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Jobs expire but censors continue

By David | Published: November 10, 2005

DOMINION POST, 10 November 2005, A2. by ANNA CHALMERS THE Government is being accused of sloppy housekeepng after it was revealed that eight members of the censorship board are serving in positions that expired 15 months ago. Jobs for all but one of the nine members on the Film & Literature Board of Review expired [...]

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Call to Minister to replace Board Members

By David | Published: October 31, 2005

Monday, 31 October 2005 The Society is calling on the new Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. Rick Barker, to replace all nine members of the Film & Literature Board of Review ["the Board”], including the Governor-General’s husband Peter Cartwright. Mr Cartwright’s term of office, along with those of seven other board members, expired 15 months [...]

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