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830 delegates gather for Forum on the Family
The annual Forum on the Family hosted by Family First NZ is happening this weekend and will bring together a national network of family-focused organisations, ...
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The Mental Health Umbrella – by Bruce Logan
Sheltering under the mental health umbrella gets easier every day. The language we use to describe mental health has become so subjective that exclusion from ...
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ChatGPT for teens was built to look safe, not be safe
Imagine a car seat your toddler could unclip whenever they got bored of it, and you’d only find out afterwards, by text message. That’s roughly ...
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Mental Health and Therapy’s Victims – by Bruce Logan
Accident, anxiety, injury, decay, disease, aging and death have always existed. So why has ‘mental health’ become under such a large, and dare I say ...
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App Store Accountability Bill Proposed To Strengthen Online Safety For Children
Family First is calling on all political parties to adopt its App Store Accountability Bill, designed to target an obvious ‘choke point’ for accessing digital ...
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WPATH admit their position is debatable
MEDIA RELEASE – 17 August 2026 WPATH Admission Raises Serious Questions About Gender Treatment Guidelines in NZ Family First NZ is calling on the Government ...
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Our birth-rate crisis is a family crisis
Commentary by Ala Pomelile Our fertility rate has fallen to 1.51 children per woman (Stats NZ, year ended June 2026), and while official median projections ...
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Assisted-suicide prescriptions continue climbing in Colorado
Colorado’s latest End-of-Life Options Act 2025 report has been released, showing prescriptions for assisted suicide medicine hit a new high of 580 in 2025. These latest ...
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Mission Drift: When Charities Lose Sight Of Their Purpose They Lose Their Soul
Sadly many charitable organisations that once began with a compelling, venerable mission, have now drifted far from that in pursuit of “trendy” cultural issues. An ...
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Surge in demand creates intense competition for places in faith-based schools
Surge in demand is creating intense competition for places in New Zealand's faith-based schools. The faith-based schools are clearly doing something right, while the reputation ...
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Bruce Logan – Tell me please, what is racism?
Accused of racism, Winston Peters is under the pump again. But what is ‘racism’ and what are we saying when we accuse somebody of it? Research ...
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250+ Young People Change Birth ‘Gender’
More than 250 young people have changed the sex on their birth certificate since the new birth certificate law came into force on 15 June ...
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Italian doctors pushback against childrens gender-affirming guide
Italy has become the latest country where the affirmative model of gender care for minors is facing internal professional pushback — following the UK’s Cass ...
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The Deadlock of Political Emptiness – by Bruce Logan
For emptiness has no language.” “Emptiness” appealed to me because it’s a vivid description of the society that’s hostile towards the faith that gave it ...
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Ontario court battle exposes troubling realities of surrogacy
A Canadian surrogacy case has reached the Ontario Superior Court after the relationship between a same-sex couple and their surrogate broke down. The case highlights ...
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NZ Forum On The Family 2026
Not to be missed - the annual New Zealand Forum on the Family is bringing together some exceptional international speakers - being held across both ...
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Australian nursing journal removes article questioning claims of increased transgender suicide risk
Australia’s largest nursing association recently removed an article challenging the commonly asserted claim that suicide risk increases in the absence of transgender healthcare. Published in ...
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Inside the court battle over puberty blockers ban for under-18s
This week in Wellington, the High Court heard detailed legal arguments on a question that has been fiercely debated in public for two years but ...
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The religion that thinks it’s neutral – by Bruce Logan
This hard-hitting analysis from board member and long-time cultural commentator Bruce Logan, argues that the essence of Matariki is opposed to the heart of the ...
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Latest NZ assisted suicide numbers show growth without scrutiny
New Zealand’s Registrar of Assisted Dying has just released the fifth annual report on the End of Life Choice Act, and the headline figure is ...
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