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Society Responds to NZ AIDS Foundation
Friday, 12 May 2006, 4:49 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
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 ... More >>
Minister’s Board Appointment Process A Sham
Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 9:42 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society is calling on the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. Rick Barker, to explain why he has seen fit to reappoint eight members of the Film and Literature Board of Review whose decisions have given the thumbs up for public cinema operators ... More >>
Deputy Chief Censor Vacancy
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 9:42 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
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 ... More >>
Minister Fails in Board Appointment Process
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 2:17 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society is calling on the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. Rick Barker, to replace eight members of the Film and Literature Board of Review because More >>
Chief Censors' Denial Proved False
Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 11:16 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Chief Censor Bill Hastings has stated that columnist Jim Hopkins' attempt at satire over the controversial "Bloody Mary" episode of South Park "evaporates in the harsh light of truth" and is based on "falsehood", because he did not ban religious videotapes ... More >>
Massive Opposition to Repeal of Section 59
Friday, 17 February 2006, 12:06 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Should Smacking Children Be Outlawed in New Zealand? A Stuff Opinion Poll Result carried out on 16 February reveals that an overwhelming number of those who responded to the on-line poll opposed any moves to ban smacking (5,322 respondents; 83.8%). ... More >>
SPCS Critical of Censor's double standards
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 9:18 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society is incensed that the Chief Censor Bill Hastings and his Deputy, Ms Nicola McCully, have been directly responsible for the clearing of brutal rape films like Baise-Moi, Irreversible and Visitor Q for public screening and yet fail to see that ... More >>
Call for Removal of Deputy Chief Censor
Monday, 30 January 2006, 10:40 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society is calling on the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. Rick Barker, to replace the Deputy Chief Censor of Film and Literature, whose statutory position expired on 1st October 2005 resulting in the position becoming vacant. The Society's ... More >>
Serious Questions over Censor's Position
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 5:28 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Deputy Chief Censor, Ms Nicola McCully, continues to hold a vital statutory position in the Office of Film and Literature Classification, despite the fact that her position became vacant on 17 September 2005 when her three year term of office expired. The ... More >>
Jim Peron, Kiddie Porn & Immigration Snub
Friday, 18 November 2005, 2:35 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Newstalk ZB reported yesterday that: "The Department of Labour has cancelled the business visa of Auckland bookshop owner Jim Peron. The American was barred from re-entering New Zealand in July [2005] after he went to Germany [in March 2005] to ... More >>
Chief Censor's Office Identifies Film Complaints
Monday, 14 November 2005, 11:34 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
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" ... More >>
Chief Censor Ignores Court of Appeal on Baise-Moi
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 5:14 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
In “The Chief Censor’s Year In Review” Bill Hastings has chosen to completely ignore the significant ruling of the Court of Appeal regarding “Baise-Moi” (transl. “Fu*k Me”), the second successful win in the courts by the Society against the Film and ... More >>
Stagecoach, Blind Discrimination & Rosa Parks
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 11:01 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
As the world remembers the passing of Rosa Parks, the black Christian woman whose refusal to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus in 1955 sparked a positive revolution in the US civil rights movement, a Wellington Stagecoach bus driver has ... More >>
SPCS Calls Minister to replace Board Members
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 8:38 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
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 ... More >>
“How-to Guide to Drug Rapists” to Chief Censor
Friday, 23 September 2005, 5:25 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY STANDARDS INC. P.O. Box 13-683 Johnsonville www.spcs.org.nz spcs.org@gmail.com More >>
Labour’s Homosexual Agenda
Friday, 9 September 2005, 1:11 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Labour Party’s ‘hidden’ agenda is to boost the number of high profile “gay”-‘rights’ lobbyists, like former Labour Party president and outspoken “open lesbian”, Ms Maryan Street, and lesbian ‘icon’ Ms Louisa Wall (placed at no. 36 no. 46 respectively, ... More >>
Labour’s Homosexual Agenda: Crushing Free Speech
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 2:52 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Labour Party’s ‘hidden’ agenda is to boost the number of high profile “gay” lobbyists, like Wellington lawyer Charles Chauvel and former party president and outspoken lesbian, Ms Maryan Street, (placed at number 44 and 36 respectfully on the party list), within ... More >>
Campaign to Change TV Adult “Watershed” to 9.30pm
Friday, 5 August 2005, 3:05 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society is supporting a national Campaign to have the “watershed” time for the broadcasting of Adults Only (AO) television programmes moved from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. It is calling on the public to make this an election issue by contacting their ... More >>
Bradford’s Repeal of s59 Criminalises all Parents
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 4:13 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
When asked by TV2’s “Eye to Eye” host, former MP Willie Jackson, “Do you accept [the use of] mild physical discipline [on children]?” Green Party MP Sue Bradford did not answer the question. However, she did make it clear that her long-term legislative ... More >>
CleanFeed Child Porn Block Applauded
Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 12:33 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Society president Mike Petrus says “the Society is delighted to read a report that Internet industry groups are teaming up with the Government to test a system to filter online child pornography.” The Censorship Compliance officials in the Department ... More >>
