Tasmania’s Commissioner for Children backs renewed call to overhaul state’s child discipline laws

There are renewed calls to overhaul Tasmanian legislation which allows parents to physically discipline their children, 18 years on from a report that called for the law to be abolished or clarified.

Tasmania’s Criminal Code Act allows for “a parent or a person in the place of a parent to use, by way of correction, any force towards a child in his or her care that is reasonable in the circumstances”.

Hobart lawyer Angela Sdrinis…