Feilding Mum organising second march
this from http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatustandard/4012134a6502.html
Manawatu Standard | Saturday, 31 March 2007
click here for details of the second Feilding March
Feilding mum Dianne Woodward will unleash her strong views against the anti-smacking bill on the nation on Monday night.
Mrs Woodward, a mother-of-four, has been invited to feature on a Campbell Live debate on TV3 with several other people, she said.
She will put forward her views on why the bill should be smacked into touch, while others will say why it should be passed.
So incensed has Mrs Woodward been with the proposed Sue Bradford bill - which would take away parents' rights to use "reasonable force" when disciplining their children - she has organised two protests in Feilding. The first, last Monday, attracted 350 people to the Feilding clock tower. The second is on Monday at the same location at noon. She will then wing her way to the big smoke and appear on Campbell Live, she said.
Meanwhile, NZPA reports the number of National Party MPs backing Ms Bradford's bill to change the law on smacking has dwindled to two.
Last night only Katherine Rich and Paula Bennett were still prepared to vote for the bill. Rangitikei MP Simon Power, Jackie Blue and Paul Hutchison, who initially indicated they would support it, are now in line with the rest of their caucus in opposing it.
National is allowing its MPs to cast conscience votes on the bill, meaning there is no party instruction on it.
Mr Hutchison said he had been influenced by a survey of his Port Waikato electorate, where he found an overwhelming number of people opposed the bill.
Ms Bradford does not need any National MPs to get her bill passed into law. She has 63 votes from Labour, her own Green Party, the Maori Party, one from United Future and two from New Zealand First. A majority in Parliament is 61.
The bill is halfway through its committee stage, and unless the Government takes it over it will not be debated again until after the Easter recess.
The Government is expected to decide on Tuesday whether to adopt it, which would mean it could be pushed up the order paper and quickly put through its remaining stages.
Manawatu Standard | Saturday, 31 March 2007
click here for details of the second Feilding March
Feilding mum Dianne Woodward will unleash her strong views against the anti-smacking bill on the nation on Monday night.
Mrs Woodward, a mother-of-four, has been invited to feature on a Campbell Live debate on TV3 with several other people, she said.
She will put forward her views on why the bill should be smacked into touch, while others will say why it should be passed.
So incensed has Mrs Woodward been with the proposed Sue Bradford bill - which would take away parents' rights to use "reasonable force" when disciplining their children - she has organised two protests in Feilding. The first, last Monday, attracted 350 people to the Feilding clock tower. The second is on Monday at the same location at noon. She will then wing her way to the big smoke and appear on Campbell Live, she said.
Meanwhile, NZPA reports the number of National Party MPs backing Ms Bradford's bill to change the law on smacking has dwindled to two.
Last night only Katherine Rich and Paula Bennett were still prepared to vote for the bill. Rangitikei MP Simon Power, Jackie Blue and Paul Hutchison, who initially indicated they would support it, are now in line with the rest of their caucus in opposing it.
National is allowing its MPs to cast conscience votes on the bill, meaning there is no party instruction on it.
Mr Hutchison said he had been influenced by a survey of his Port Waikato electorate, where he found an overwhelming number of people opposed the bill.
Ms Bradford does not need any National MPs to get her bill passed into law. She has 63 votes from Labour, her own Green Party, the Maori Party, one from United Future and two from New Zealand First. A majority in Parliament is 61.
The bill is halfway through its committee stage, and unless the Government takes it over it will not be debated again until after the Easter recess.
The Government is expected to decide on Tuesday whether to adopt it, which would mean it could be pushed up the order paper and quickly put through its remaining stages.
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