[Gezzar]

Corporal punishment does not teach you right from wrong. That is a fallacy. My school and my family taught me right from wrong. Too many parents send their children to school then expect to teachers to discipline them. When you advocate violence and send a message to children that it’s OK to hurt another then many will take that learning into their adult life.
To those who say it never did them any harm I take it you enjoyed the pain. If adults wish to champion hitting children then I assume you would advocate adults being caned for a misdemeanour. Or are you a bunch of hypocrites?

[Gezzar]

In the 1950s at boarding school we would misbehave after lights out. Caught, we would be sent to queue outside the Housemaster’s room where each would enter to receive six strokes of the cane across the backside. We would go back to the dormitory in silence and after a while sleep. But once the memory of the pain had left we would once again misbehave after lights out. Like any risk management we built in the possibility of a caning and would see who could be the bravest at taking the punishment. Such violence on an eleven-year-old served little purpose.
But to all those who advocate corporal punishment on children why not apply it to adults as well? How many here will agree to receiving a canning for, say, a traffic offence? If corporal punishment is good for children why not adults?

[Gezzar]

In the 1950s at boarding school we would misbehave after lights out. Caught, we would be sent to queue outside the Housemaster’s room where each would enter to receive six strokes of the cane across the backside. We would go back to the dormitory in silence and after a while sleep. But once the memory of the pain had left we would once again misbehave after lights out. Like any risk management we built in the possibility of a caning and would see who could be the bravest at taking the punishment. Such violence on an eleven-year-old served little purpose.
But to all those who advocate corporal punishment on children why not apply it to adults as well? How many here will agree to receiving a canning for, say, a traffic offence? If corporal punishment is good for children why not adults?

[Gezzar]

Mr. Morrison. Why do you lie both in and out of Parliament and then deny what you said? Why did you promise that you would introduce a Federal ICAC bill then did not do so? Why did you not allow a private members bill on a Federal ICAC to be debated?

Mr. Albenese. Will you support free dental health? When will you phase out coal and gas? Does our tax system need an overhaul and, if so, when would you do it?

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