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Section 280 of the Criminal Code makes it lawful for a parent or person in place of a parent to use “reasonable force” against a child for the purposes of domestic discipline. Last year an effectively identical section was deleted from the New Zealand statute book after several high profile acquittals in circumstances that amounted to physical abuse, for example chastisement of children with horsewhips and blocks of wood. Does our law allow such mistreatment?
Speaker
The Hon. Dean Wells (MP) is a parliamentarian, a philosopher and a lawyer. He has served in both the Australian and Queensland parliaments. In Queensland he has served as Attorney General, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Education and Minister for the Environment. He has taught philosophy at the University of Queensland, Latrobe and Monash Universities in Melbourne, and the University of Wales in the United Kingdom. He is a Barrister of the High Court of New Zealand and is admitted in Queensland. He has published a number of books and articles. He has three children.
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