Funny listening to Sean Plunket on Morning Report with Sue Bradford this morning, following yesterday’s awful performance. He finally dropped to the fact that he and his media colleagues have been peddling her side’s deceptions. 

Her law makes into criminal assault all uninvited physical contact by a parent which is unwecome to the child. It always has. It flows simply and unavoidably from the law’s definition of assault and the removal of the section 59 exception.

She explained that to him, apparently forgetting that the "compromise" had gained its support by being falsely described as not criminalising minor smacking. It was not a compromise. It was a successful obfuscation. 

I won’t hold my breath waiting for the journalists who so gratefully spread the falsehood, to show grace some day by apologising to McCroskie and others they’ve shouted down instead of interviewing.