More than 1,000 health and welfare experts reviewed Queensland’s domestic discipline laws and have found smacking children should be against the law. 

The Queensland Law Reform Commission is proposing the banning of corporal punishment that injures a child and the banning of force applied to the child’s head, face, or neck.

Associate Professor at the University of Queensland’s Centre for Mental Health Research and member of the Queensland Child Death Review Board, Divna Haslam, told Sofie Formica on 4BC Afternoons, “We’re calling for a public health campaign to really tell parents the harms associated with smacking and physical discipline, and really highlighting the need for diversion principles.”

“So parents that are engaging in particularly the more severe ends of corporal punishment, get support and parenting advice rather than criminalisation.”

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