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Exporting NZ's no-hitting law
Thursday, 1 June 2017, 11:49 am | Dr Ian Hassall
Ian Hassall, New Zealand’s first Commissioner for Children, will be a key-note speaker at a Stockholm workshop this month (29 & 30 June), titled, ‘Comparative social and legal developments in dealing with corporal punishment of children’. More >>
Open letter to Australian leaders on children in detention
Monday, 6 July 2015, 4:53 pm | Dr Ian Hassall
Attached is an open letter sent to Mr Abbott and Mr Shorten on Friday expressing concern for the children in the Australian Commonwealth Government detention centres on Nauru and elsewhere. Also attached is a list of the forty signatories who are ... More >>
Family Values
Monday, 25 February 2008, 11:04 am | Dr Ian Hassall
The attacks on the Children's Commissioner by the pro-smacking petition folk are becoming rather extreme. They have accused her of insulting past generations of parents by daring to suggest that the good old days might not have been so good for many ... More >>
Dr Ian Hassall: Perspective On The New Section 59
Friday, 4 May 2007, 4:39 pm | Dr Ian Hassall
Public uncertainty over the fate of the Crimes (Substituted S59) Amendment Bill came suddenly and dramatically to an end last Wednesday. The Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and the Bill’s sponsor called a press conference mid-morning ... More >>