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To the Canterbury Earthquake Appeal: ANZ (account no. 01-1839-0188939-00) or National bank (account no. 06-0869-0548507-00).
To the Red Cross: redcross.org.nz/donate or via grabone.co.nz/christchurch as the Red Cross site has been crashing.
To the Westpac Canterbury Care Fund in partnership with the Salvation Army: either at branches nationwide or to the account no. 03-0207-0617331-00
To the Salvation Army Earthquake appeal: salvationarmy.org.nz or 0800 5300 00. For more go below: [Read more…]
MEDIA RELEASE: 28 December 2010 Source www.familyfirst.org.nz
Family First NZ has laid an official complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority over a disgraceful TV3 Nightline news story (ref. 1) broadcast on the day before Christmas Eve which trivialised and made light of child sex abuse. [Family First NZ is a registered charity with the NZ Charities Commission and its objectives are supported by SPCS].
“It was broadcast only 24 hours after it had been revealed (ref. 2) that the horrendous case of child abuse of a West Auckland 9 year old that had shocked the nation also involved sexual abuse by a CYF caregiver. It was also introduced by the presenter with the pun ‘a touching Christmas story’,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.
“It was crass, completely inappropriate, and offensive to many people who would have been shocked, revolted and upset by the revelations of severe and long-term abuse of a nine year old which was in the news.” [Read more…]
Public Servant and legal expert Dr Andrew Jack is the new chief censor. He replaces Bill Hastings who resigned in July 2010. Dr Jack, Customs’ legal and advisory services group manager, is currently chief legal adviser for the NZ Police. His three-year term as chief censor starts on 7 March 2011.
See Media Release Wednesday, December 22. 2010
New Chief Censor appointed: Minister of Internal Affairs Nathan Guy has announced the appointment of Dr Andrew Jack as Chief Censor
http://nathanguy.co.nz/index.php?/archives/518-New-Chief-Censor-appointed.html
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The Society’s 2009 (Members Only) AGM will be held on Monday night from 6.45 pm to 7.20 pm 8th June 2009 at Connolly Hall, Guilford Tce, Thorndon. The Public Address commencing at 7.30 pm, following the AGM, will be given by John Terris, former Mayor of Lower Hutt, former Labour Party MP for Western Hutt, Former Acting Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and President of Media Matters. All members of the public are warmly invited to attend this lecture, the discussion that follows and the supper. The Lecture Topic is: “New Zealand’d Media Landscape – It’s like the Wild and Woolly West. (Our value-averse little country is fast becoming the Sleaze Capital of the Universe).” [Read more…]
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Press Release 21 July 2008
The Society was today granted leave by the Secretary of Internal Affairs, Mr Brendan Boyle, to apply to the Film and Literature Board of Review to review the classification of the computer game Grand Theft Auto IV (unedited US version). The game was classified R18 by the Chief Censor’s Office. [Read more…]