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A well-paid privilege

Prime Minister John Key's announcement today of a review of referral protocols between the Police and the Child Youth and Family services is a positive step to entrenching the child discipline law as it now stands.

Whatever proposals the Cabinet considers this week, they must focus on the need for real action on New Zealand's shameful levels of serious child abuse, says the Yes Vote coalition, which supports the child discipline law as it stands.

The outcome of the child discipline referendum, announced this evening, was always a foregone conclusion, given the confusing and leading question that it asked, says the Yes Vote coalition, which supports the law as it stands.

The Yes Vote coalition rejects today's New Zealand Herald story claiming that the coalition has "flouted" referendum spending limit rules.

Supporters of the child discipline law as it now stands are urged to complete their referendum postal ballots and mail them before Thursday of this week, August 20, in time to be counted when voting closes on Friday evening.

This week, action stations in The Body Shop will provide people with information about why a 'yes' vote in the referendum supports parents in their use of positive parenting.

The latest six-monthly Police statistics confirm that the public can have confidence in the child discipline law and the way it is being administered.

Former NZ First MP Deborah Morris-Travers, now spokesperson for the VoteYes Campaign Coalition, whilst the Minister for Youth Affairs in the late 1990s, stated that because more people were breaking the law by smoking cannabis (pot) and calling for a liberalisation of the law pertaining to the us

23 June 2009 - Promoters of the referendum on child discipline must be truly desperate if they are willing to make a father who repeatedly pushes over his seven year-old their new poster-boy for "a smack as a part of good parental correction", says The Yes Vote*.