The SPCS contends that some of the more spectacular symptoms that reveal how New Zealand society has lost its moral bearings, include the steady growth in its million dollar white collar crime ‘industry’, involving fraud, bribery, theft, and dishonesty etc. Hitting the headlines with growing regularity it seems, are middle-aged grey-haired balding, or completely bald [...]
TV sleaze backlash gathers steam By John Drinnan Sep 17, 2010 Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10674013 Pressure is building on television networks to reduce the amount of sleaze in early prime time. The Broadcasting Standards Authority is expected to announce a decision next week that will set the new tone. There is particular concern about sexual content on [...]
Today there are three articles published in the NZ Herald – by secondary school students decrying media community standards. They are :- “Young girls having their innocence stolen” by Paula McDowell, Year 10, of Tauraroa Area School. “Overdose of bare flesh corrupts our kids” by Zhan Ye Chen, Year 13, Hamilton Boys’ High School, and [...]
Writer of the Sunday NZ Herald Editorial suggests “…the [Boobs on Bikes] parade is best treated like the show-off child it so much resembles – by being ignored.” The writer is adamant that the massive billboard of a naked woman Steve, his bother David Bruce Crow of Inglewood and sister Leanne Marie Osborn of Fitzroy, [...]
The trial of a former Nelson man fighting for what he says is his right as a Christian to hit his son will not go ahead, after the Crown decided to offer no evidence in the case.
In the light of the release of new coroners’ figures on suicide rates, the Society is slamming a unanimous decision by the 8-member Film and Literature Board of Review to support the public availability of a sick book that provides step-by-step methods of how to commit suicide and assist others to do so.
‘I make it look like they died in their sleep’ Jon Ronson The Guardian Monday 12 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/12/mentalhealth.health Summary Irish police are seeking the arrest and extradition of the Reverend George Exoo, “a giggly, gay liberal unitarian preacher, cultured funny, [and]charming.” who is “a leading figure in the right-to-die movement.” Like fellow right-to-die propagandist Dr [...]
Drowning in depravity Sunday Star Times Sunday Magazine, 18 May 2008 Paradise Lost New Zealand’s image may be that of a clean, green idyll, but to our moral watchdogs we’re an increasingly filthy bunch, enveloped in a smog of political correctness. Grant Smithies asks three men about their mission to get us make on track [...]
Banned company director faces battle in Court
A banned company director with a chequered business past and who has threatened many New Zealanders with court action, is shortly to face a battle in court over his business activities.