Smacking children to become illegal

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hearing this morning as a fresh push to make smacking
kids illegal in Queensland. The nation's first review of domestic
discipline laws has heard from more than one hundred health
and welfare experts who have likened smacking to domestic violence
and say children deserve the same protection as adults.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's a hard one, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's a legal in New Zealand.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
I think I think it is because I think my
kids weren't that once, and every time we fly in
they remind me.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
I could go to jail even though I don't smack them.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
You're a non smacker. Yeah, yeah, Well, I think it's
This is debatable, and this is why we want to
open the phones up to gold coasters. Because we're in
a world of a lot more youth crime and a
lot more stuff is happening. And there is an old

(00:53):
school way of thinking that saying that that wasn't happening
way back then because there was more discipline, saying that
the kids aren't disciplined and they need to be held
accountable for bad behavior.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Was it disciplined or was a fear though?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, whatever works, So there's no no right or wrong
in it, or there's a lot of wrong in it,
but it's one of those things where people do have
their opinion. Now, whether they want to do that on
the radio or not is another thing, because some people,
like might be at a barbecue and they're quite happy
to go. I think a little smack here and there

(01:26):
for a kid is okay. Some people would turn around
in that barbecue and say, are you kidding me? That
is abuse?

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Can you tell everyone what you said to me as
I went to get a cup of tea?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Did you get smacked?

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah? And what was my answer as I walked out
the door.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
Yeah, I love it, I said, lots got smacked, lots
with all the different apparatuses in the house. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
In in case it doesn't work.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Can you stop sopoon at the plastics?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Same plastics?

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Catch hand?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
I think I had an electric cord once.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Okay, that's that's getting up there in the electric cord.
I remember once my dad pretended to give my brother
a whipping with the belt. Yeah, the belt, I forgot
the belt, Yeah, but he didn't buckle. He was doing
the smack noises and my brother was going ah so
that I was petrified because I was next in line.

(02:30):
And then I came in and he says, right, you
won't do it again with you and I was like, no,
in no way I'm doing that again.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
So psychological warfare, well done, Poppy.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
G Yeah he didn't And what happened to you? Yeah?
I know there was no controlling.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Here's the thing with me being smacked though. I want
to put this in because you know, my parents are
beautiful and you.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Know that, but it was the time.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
It was the time.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
But also I'm a lot older than my younger brothers,
and my parents didn't smack us little. We were more
smacked when we were you knowing what we were doing wrong?
Does that make sense? So they weren't like hitting two
and three and four year olds. We were like ten
and eleven and really you know, testing the boundaries eighteen,
you know what I mean? So I think these laws

(03:14):
are to protect the very young, yes, and to protect
them from people who hurt them more than a little smack.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well there, Look, there are some people that like when
you're growing up, and we got a little smack. There
was no domestic violence in my home, no same hand,
but we got smacked. So it was just a thing
and it was like accepted and then you knew that Hey,
if I'm in trouble, I'm going to get you know,

(03:41):
wait till your father gets home. That sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Wasn't that the statement?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know?

Speaker 4 (03:44):
It was dad had walking from work and go, oh
do I have to I really just want to watch
sal of the Century.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
My dad would walk. My dad would walk with heavy feet.
You'd actually hear him come home, and then Mum would
tell him and then all of a sudden that mister
stompy would come down towards the bedroom.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
What's your question, though, the question is do.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
You think it's time to put this law into place?
So should we should we still allow smacking at home
that is reasonable? Or should it be just banned? And
it could be a criminal problem?

Speaker 4 (04:16):
And if anyone from New Zealand is listening, how's it
gone there? That's pretty interesting?

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, because it is it is. It is illegal in
New Zealand.

Speaker 6 (04:24):
Okay, yeah, we want to know what you think one
nine smacking of kids. You're on board for discipline, you're
not on board. We'd love to get your thoughts about it.
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