Sue Bradford resigned

I agree lemongirl it is sad, she's done well IMO - I'm in the minority and I'm all for the anti-smacking bill

I'm glad she's gone, can't stand her. She only resigned cause she didn't get the co-leadership, threw her toys IMO.

The anti-smacking is the most useless piece of legislation ever passed. Its done nothing to stop or reduce child abuse, all its done is turn parents into criminals.

I think she's great, and it's such a shame that she's resigning. I wish that we had more leaders like her.

Mamma2N wrote: mrsg1 wrote: I'm glad she's gone, can't stand her. She only resigned cause she didn't get the co-leadership, threw her toys IMO. The anti-smacking is the most useless piece of legislation ever passed. Its done nothing to stop or reduce child abuse, all its done is turn parents into criminals. I'm with you there! Biggest paddy I've seen in quite sometime!

I'm in this camp too, can't stand the woman.
As for the anti-smacking, IMO people who are into beating their children aren't likely to give a crap about the law anyway.

anakk wrote: I don't want to turn this into an anti-smacking vs. smacking debate, but I can't help myself: Genie wrote: IMO people who are into beating their children aren't likely to give a crap about the law anyway. Well no, but at least they might get some jail time - instead of using section 59 to get away with child abuse.

And at the risk of adding to the debate....if as a society we are going to say no to any sort of violence to our children way not start in our own homes?

To be honest I don't think she threw a paddy at all, it sounded to me like she had missed out on a position, sure, but she had taken, what was it...4 months to evaluate and realise she wasn't happy. Goodness knows I've done that in a job after missing out on a management role, doesn't seem much difference to me.

*walks into thread, sees this is about to become a debate on smacking and runs RUNS away ! *

LOL Kelly I love your way of defusing potential conflict Let's not go there with the smacking debate or we'll end uip at four pages!

As for Sue Bradford, I couldn't stand her as a person, every time I saw her on TV her views seemed so ill-thought-out and based on personal opinion rather than fact. However, I do agree with some of the things she implemented. Also, like anakk said, I think it was quite brave of her to be up-front about why she was leaving.



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freckle wrote: I agree lemongirl it is sad, she's done well IMO - I'm in the minority and I'm all for the anti-smacking bill

You are not alone there. When you take away all the hype it only comes down to 1 thing, & no one can justify it. But then I don't think anyone should hit kids, so thats pretty sad if I to am in the minority.

Paws - I absolutely agree, I can't see anything wrong with leaving a job because you missed out on a higher position - surely people do that all the time??

Jazzy- I don't either IMO smacking kids at any level is a completely unnecessary and irrelevant punishment that is demeaning and unproductive ... I'm somewhat passionate bout this one can ya tell

Im sad she has gone too she has done some great things esp the breastfeeding Mums in prison bill.
Also have to agree with the anti-smacking there are other ways that are more productive to discipline. Imo I also think it is about role modelling too how can we teach our children not to hit and then turn around and do it to them.