It was Sue Bradford’s last day in parliament today. She’ll always be remembered for S59. A recent referendum in New Zealand returned a whopping 87.4% vote in favour of decriminalising smacking. The Prime Minister John Key ignored the result – worse than that, he actually determined before the vote results were in, that he wouldn’t change the law. Here’s the background to why, and what the 87.4% can do to get him to change the law and an assessment of the real role that Sue played in the “smacking debate”. [Read more...]