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Crime and punishment

Jul 2010

by Justine Stewart

I am astonished that in this country in the 21st century it is still a defence to a charge of assaulting a child that you were engaged in reasonable chastisement…some parents take that much too far.”

Family Court Chief Justice, Alastair Nicholson, quoted in the Courier-Mail in 2002.

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