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Head Blow Causing Death Blamed On Media Exposure
Wednesday, 11 June 2003, 1:10 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
A teenager's exposure to violent films and video games has been advanced by his defense lawyer, Ron Mansfield, in a recent Court of Appeal case as the reason why his client did not understand that a blow to the head could kill. More >>
Taxpayers fund “bad taste” film festival
Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 5:08 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
A one-person commercial film festival operation, the Beck’s Incredible Film Festival, has received taxpayer subsidies via film fee classification waivers, valued at over $100,000 since 1995 (see appendix I). However, Mr Anthony T. Timpson, director of ... More >>
Mass Suicides Tonight A Sick 'Entertainment' Fest
Friday, 30 May 2003, 5:24 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
PATRONS Sir John Kennedy-Good KBE QSO Professor TV O'Donnell MD FRACP CBE Marilyn Pryor Founder Patricia Bartlett O.B.E. More >>
Marketing Porno Sleaze on TV One Tonight
Wednesday, 21 May 2003, 5:27 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
TV One features a documentary tonight at 9.35 p.m. called “Reel Life: Naked Ambition” featuring Steve Crow the hardcore porno NZ filmmaker and director of Vixen Direct Ltd. More >>
SPCS Appeals “Irreversible” Classification
Friday, 9 May 2003, 8:15 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
SPCS has sought the leave of the Secretary of Internal Affairs to appeal the classification decision of the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) with respect to the French sex-violence film “Irreversible”. The application dated 2 May 2003 ... More >>
SPCS Appeals “Ken Park” Classification
Friday, 9 May 2003, 8:13 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
SPCS has sought the leave of the Secretary of Internal Affairs to appeal the classification decision of the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) with respect to the film “Ken Park”. More >>
SPCS questions Chief Censor over Sexual Violence
Thursday, 8 May 2003, 10:09 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Today the Society sent an open letter, as an official information request, to Chief Censor Mr Bill Hastings seeking urgent answers to questions over the growing trend, under his leadership, to allow more and more films depicting brutal sexual violence ... More >>
Tax-Payers Fund Film Festival Porn Smut
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 3:23 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
“SPCS has calculated that Mr Timpson has received between $157,000 and $167,700 in taxpayer subsidies for his film festivals since 1995.” More >>
Appeal To MPs Consciences Re Prostitution 'Reform'
Monday, 17 March 2003, 9:36 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Today all MPS received a letter from SPCS highlighting serious conscience issues related to the forthcoming CONSCIENCE VOTE on the Prostitution 'Reform' Bill that is scheduled to be considered by the House in the second reading debate on the 26th ... More >>
Why Parliament Must Reject Marc Alexander's Bill
Wednesday, 5 March 2003, 9:00 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
SPCS opposes a Private Member's Bill in the name of Marc Alexander, a first- term United Future Party MP and party spokesman on Internal Affairs, which is set down as item number three on the Order Paper for Wednesday 5th March 2003. United Future ... More >>
Why Politicians Must Dump Prostitution Bill
Tuesday, 4 March 2003, 7:41 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society calls on all politicians, especially those who have claimed publicly to care about the welfare of women and young persons, to vote against the decriminalisation of prostitution, as contained in the socially irresponsible Prostitution 'Reform' ... More >>
Violence On Television
Thursday, 14 November 2002, 2:26 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
"Violence on Television" will be the subject of a free public lecture by JOHN TERRIS QSO JP, Mayor of Hutt City, to be given on Friday night 15 November at Connolly Hall, Guilford Terrace (off Hill St), Thorndon. The meeting is sponsored by the Society ... More >>
Banned Sex Video and 'Porn Baby’ Film Producer
Monday, 21 October 2002, 11:09 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Porn filmmaker Steve Crow must now dispose of all copies of a hardcore porn video his company Vixen Direct Ltd has been distributing for over two years. If he refuses to and is found to possess it or be distributing it, he could face a fine of up to ... More >>
‘Porn Baby’ Film Producer’s Video Banned
Monday, 21 October 2002, 7:53 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
In a landmark decision dated 4 October 2002 the Classification Office has overturned its earlier decision dated 7 July 2000 that classified the video (“The Matador Series 2”) R18 with no excisions recommended. The video’s distributor is Vixen Direct Ltd, ... More >>
SPCS congratulates Minister of Health
Monday, 14 October 2002, 5:13 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society congratulates the Minister of Health, Hon Annette King, who has just issued a press release stating: "I am satisfied that sufficient justification exists fo me to direct the Waikato [Hospital] Board to say no to pornographic filming in ... More >>
Unborn babies and Sleazy Porn Films
Monday, 14 October 2002, 2:02 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society supports the decision of Justice Heath made in the Hamilton High Court on Friday 12 October to grant an interim injunction preventing an Auckland hard-core pornographic film maker, Steve Crow, from filming the labour and birth of a baby ... More >>
Prostitutes, Pimps and City Council Policies
Wednesday, 2 October 2002, 3:50 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society (SPCS) has written this week to the mayors of 20 cities and asked them to clarify their Council’s intended policies and by-laws to control the inevitable rise in street soliciting by prostitutes (including children) and the associated ... More >>
Bill Hastings on 'Banned' Sex-Violence Films
Tuesday, 24 September 2002, 11:51 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
In an interview with film critic Steven Gray on Radio 95 bFM, Chief Censor Bill Hastings discusses the “strong” sex-violence films Baise-Moi (F*ck Me”), Visitor Q and Bully. He justifies their initial restricted release and says that one can view their “objectionable” ... More >>
Legal case for re-classification of Baise-Moi
Thursday, 5 September 2002, 1:59 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Board now has available to it the decision of the Australian Classification Review Board on "Baise-Moi" dated 10 May 2002 which was not available to the Board at the time it made its earlier classification. Peter McKenzie QC acting ... More >>
SPCS Submission On Baise-Moi
Wednesday, 4 September 2002, 12:13 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
My introduction is by way of appeal to the Board to act to ensure that this pernicious production is either substantially cut or banned because the availability of the publication is likely to be injurious to the public good. More >>
