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“He would ‘kill’ for another term as Chief Censor"
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 3:09 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
In a frank interview with Chief Censor Bill Hastings, the transcript of which appears in today’s Dominion Post (26/10/06, D3), Hastings (pictured) is asked what he’d kill for. His reply: “I’d kill for … another term as Chief Censor”. However, ... More >>
Tax Payers Subsidise Porn via Censor’s Office
Friday, 22 September 2006, 1:08 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Taxpayers are currently subsidising the examination, classification and registration of hundreds of sleazy hardcore porn videos every year and the Society wants this to stop and for the porn industry and distributors to cover ALL the costs involved. More >>
Lies From S. 59 Repeal Lobbyists
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 9:55 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society presented its oral submission this afternoon to the select committee studying Bradford’s ‘anti-smacking’ bill. It accused the bill’s supporters such as UNICEF, of disseminating blatant “lies” in the course of the debate. More >>
Educational Zealots Ban School Prayers
Friday, 25 August 2006, 2:23 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
“Ministry of Education officials who appear to be determined to eradicate the last vestiges of Judaeo-Christian religious influence in our schools have lost the plot in their latest attempts to ban all forms of religious prayer in primary and intermediate ... More >>
Report: Steve Crow’s Erotica Sleaze Banned
Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 4:58 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
One of “porn tycoon” Steve Crow’s “Boobs on Bikes Parade” stars – Ms Jessica Drake - was interviewed on TV One’s Breakfast Show this morning by TV One presenter Ali Ikram. Ms Drake was introduced as “one of 30 porn stars” who intended ... More >>
Swedish child abuse increases
Monday, 31 July 2006, 11:59 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Non-government child advocate lobby groups in NZ have urged police to confirm that police officers will not arrest parents for smacking their children, should smacking become a criminal offence if Section 59 is removed from the Crimes Act, upon the ... More >>
Swedish Parents Kill 258 of their children 1965-99
Monday, 31 July 2006, 10:31 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Sweden has been hailed by Green MP Sue Bradford as an enlightened country where anti-smacking legislation has had a significant impact on reducing the number of child homicides committed by parents. More >>
Swedish Parents Kill 258 of their children
Friday, 28 July 2006, 4:20 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Sweden has been hailed by Green MP Sue Bradford as an enlightened country where anti-smacking legislation has had a significant impact on reducing the number of child homicides committed by parents. More >>
Society Disgusted by Website Attacks on Teachers
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 5:06 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society is disgusted that many New Zealand secondary school teachers (all named) are being subject to a range of personal attacks and abuse on a new website where New Zealand students are encouraged to rate their teacher's ability and post anonymous ... More >>
Charles Chauvel: His Attempts to Crush Free Speech
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 9:51 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Wellington lawyer Charles Chauvel will shortly enter Parliament as a new Labourt Party List MP. He will replace soon-to-retire veteran MP Jim Sutton. The PM announced on Monday 10 July that Sutton, a list MP, will take up new appointments outside parliament ... More >>
SPCS on Reservoir Dogs Game Ban
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 3:46 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society is pleased that the Office of Film and Literature Classification (see Scoop 7 July) has applied the censorship law correctly and banned the computer game Reservoir Dogs that is based on the Quentin Taranantino's ultra-violent sick film ... More >>
Outrage over BSA Ruling on "Bloody Mary"
Monday, 3 July 2006, 3:01 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society submitted a comprehensive written complaint to the broadcaster over the screening of the highly offensive "Blood Mary" episode of South Park. The broadcaster made no effort to interact with the details of the complaint other than send back ... More >>
'Anti-Smacking' Bill To Be Caned
Friday, 16 June 2006, 4:50 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
"Family Integrity v. State Intrusion Into Families". This is the topic that Mr Craig Smith, National Director of Family Integrity and the Home Education Foundation, will address at 8 p.m. as guest speaker at the 2006 AGM of the Society for Promotion of ... More >>
Greens Left v Right on S. 59 Debate
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 9:34 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
In a speech given at the installing of new Green Party co-leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons tried to seize the high moral ground for the "left" when she stated: More >>
Society Responds to "Anti-Smacking" Spokespersons
Friday, 9 June 2006, 5:00 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Beth Wood, a spokesperson for Unicef, has stated that all the ten organisations, including her own, that are supporting the repeal of s 59 of the Crimes Act 1961, do so "primarily because it endorses the use of force in discipline and physical ... More >>
Call for Chief Censor and Deputy to be replaced
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 4:33 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Tonight on Prime TV News (5.30 p.m. channel 6) the Society for Promtion of Community Standards Inc. is calling for the Chief Censor, Bill Hastings and his Deputy, Nicola McCully, to be dumped. The report will be replayed on SkyNews (channel 54 Sky Digital) ... More >>
Anti-smackers use scare mongering tactics
Friday, 26 May 2006, 3:53 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Society President Mike Petrus says that all of “the ten child advocacy organisations that presented their cases for the repeal of s. 59 of the Crimes Act 1961 before the Justice and Electoral Committee yesterday, along with the bill’s proponent Green ... More >>
Society call to dump Bradford’s Bill
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 4:23 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society is calling on the Justice & Electoral Committee considering Green Party MP Sue Bradford’s bill to dump it. The private member’s bill – dubbed by the media as the “anti-smacking bill” – “would create a legal nonsense if enacted into law,” ... More >>
Dishonesty in anti-smacking bill agenda
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 9:14 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Green MP Sue Bradford has just made a major U-turn in her position with regard to her flawed private members bill that seeks the complete removal of the "reasonable force" defence from the Crimes Act 1960 (s. 59). More >>
Society Exposes NZAF Failed Policy on HIV/AIDS
Friday, 19 May 2006, 5:12 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The NZ AIDS Foundation (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 ... More >>
