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Chief Censor Bill Hastings has been appointed a District Court judge and will head the new Immigration and Protection Tribunal, Attorney-General Chris Finlayson announced today.
Mr Hastings is handing over his duties as chief censor, an appointment he has held since 1999, and the Department of Internal Affairs is starting a recruitment process for a replacement.
Until a new appointment is made Deputy Chief Censor Nicola McCully will hold all the powers of chief censor. [Read more…]
The Derty Desh rap music video “Let Me Introduce Myself/Forever” opens with “graphic violence” involving the depiction of “the frenzied murder and dismemberment of a young woman by the hooded figure of the rapper” (accompanied by the rap track “Let Me Introduce Myself” and “offensive language”). The rap track “Forever” follows, accompanied by “images that show a young woman stalked and the hooded man summarily disposed of. The terrified woman is taken to a shack in the woods and attacked by the same hooded man.” The frenzied sexual violation of the woman is implied in the images and by the music that tends to glamorise the attack. In a classification decision published on 15 June 2010 in the May List of Decisions, the Chief Censor’s Office has classified it R18. [Read more…]
Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow resigned as sole director of HWGA Company Ltd on 15 May 2010, the same day his brother David Bruce Crow of Inglewood and sister Leanne Marie Osborn of Fitzroy, New Plymouth, were appointed directors. Steve Crow resigned on the day after he was banned for four years from being a company director anywhere in Australasia and was by the Ministry of Economic Development which served the banning order on him on14 May 2010. On 15 June David Bruce Crow, the new co-director of HWGA Co. Ltd, registered 50% of its shares in his name (They were previously all registered in the name of Dermott Malley, CEO of Truth Publications Ltd (In Liq) which is reported to owe lenders and creditors $622,000 (see ref. 1). The remaining 50% of company shares continue to be registered in the name of of Andrew James Steele of Mt Roskill, Auckland. [Read more…]
Almost a third of New Zealand children have seen violent or nude images online despite Kiwi parents being the most vigilant about talking to their children about safe online habits, an international survey shows.
The results come in the annual Norton Online Family Report, released today, which paints a picture of the online habits of families from 14 countries, including New Zealand, the United States, Britain and Australia.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3815883/Kiwi-kids-see-bad-images-online
Big-spending MP may quit. By Carolyne Meng-Yee. Sunday Star-Times 12 June 2010.
TV3 head of news and current affairs, Mark Jennings, said today: “Carter [Chris Carter MP] is a serial offender on expenses…it’s Duncan [Garner’s] job [as TV3 political editor] to shine the light on that” [offending].
Carter’s civil unionised gay partner Peter Kaiser said the expenses scandal [that has rocked parliament and appalled most decent New Zealanders who are sick and tired of the corrupt practices of politicians], had placed a strain on their relationship. A defensive and angry Carter told the media that he is sick of “people trying to paint this image of these luxury-loving gay boys {Peter Kaiser and Chris Carter] who are swanning around, flowers to the boyfriend.” [Read more…]