Commentary
Discover fresh commentary and articles on important topics from both New Zealand and overseas. Stay informed, and get a viewpoint that challenges the mainstream media narrative.
Commentary
Discover fresh commentary and articles on important topics. Stay informed, and get a viewpoint that challenges the mainstream media narrative.
NZ should adopt Scottish strategy to reduce alcohol harm
Stuff co.nz 22 June 2021 – Dr Alistair Humphrey is chair of the New Zealand Medical Association Family First Comment: “We urgently need to focus ...
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Sorry Harvard, fathers still matter — including Black fathers
USA Today 17 June 2021 Family First Comment: It was Fathers Day in the US last Sunday. This excellent op-ed pushes back on the left revisionist ...
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Online child sexual abuse growth stretches NZ authorities
Child sexual abuse imagery: Online growth stretches NZ investigator NZ Herald 21 June 2021 Family First Comment: Shocking…. “As the problem has grown in scale and ...
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Women sue Pornhub
Dozens of women sue Pornhub, accusing company of profiting from non-consensual sexual content NewsHub 18 June 2021 Family First Comment: Excellent. Time to hold the destructive ...
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Ad: Isn’t it Time the Law Reflects the Science?
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US Supreme Court sides with Catholic foster agency
Supreme Court sides with Catholic foster agency that excludes same-sex couples in 9-0 ruling Fox News 17 June 2021 Family First Comment: Stunning decision. 9-0. Even ...
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Doco on P ignored ‘true horror of the drug’
More FM’s Jay-Jay Feeney says Patrick Gower: On P ignored ‘the true horror of the drug’ Stuff co.nz 17 June 2021 Family First Comment: Well said ...
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Billions in black-market weed still selling in Illinois 18 months after marijuana legalized
Chicago Sun Times 14 June 2021 Family First Comment: Illinois experiencing the same as California. A thriving black market. And increasing drug use. Who would have ...
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California offers $100 million to rescue its struggling legal marijuana industry
Los Angeles Times 14 June 2021 Family First Comment: All is not well with legalised cannabis (as expected). The black market continues…. “The California Legislature on ...
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Māori, disabled, sexually diverse more likely to be victims of crime
TVNZ One News 16 June 2021 Key facts • Nearly a third of all adults became victims of crime last year • Only a quarter ...
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Perth twins Anna and Lucy DeCinque get engaged to same man
NZ Herald 14 June 2021 Family First Comment: But but but…. they assured us that it was never about ‘group’ marriage! “As Australia doesn’t allow three ...
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Oxfam training guide blames privileged white women root causes
The Telegraph 9 June 2021 Family First Comment: This is how woke destroys their own because none of their argument is logical….. “The training manual was ...
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Coercive treatment for mental illness reform ‘long overdue’
NZ Herald 14 June 2021 Family First Comment: Perhaps the government should focus on its own coercive therapy which is happening in state-run services – rather ...
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Woman died after taking MDMA at rave at Auckland’s Bastion Point
Stuff co.nz 13 June 2021 Family First Comment: “anything over 1mg could potentially be fatal, but 2mg/l fell “within the range associated with both recreational use ...
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Homeless women more likely to be younger, Māori and sole parents – study
NewsHub 13 June 2021 A new study has found women who are homeless earn significantly less income and rely more on government support than men ...
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Athletes’ biological advantages cannot be countered by testosterone restrictions
Stuff co.nz 12 June 2021 – Steve Stannard Family First Comment: Here’s a simple biology lesson about why sports should remain girls-only and boys-only (as ...
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Free lunch programme – schools’ plea for changes fall on deaf ears
NZ Herald 8 June 2021 – Kate MacNamara Family First Comment: This is how socialism and state control works. Do it our way. We’re not interested ...
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Former BLM Leader says Organisation Hurts Families
Minnesota Family Council 3 June 2021 Family First Comment: “A year and a half after he founded the Saint Paul chapter of Black Lives Matter, Turner ...
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Outrage over children as young as 9 locked up alone for days in mental health hospitals
Stuff co.nz 5 June 2021 – CECILE MEIER Family First Comment: Perhaps the politicians should focus on problems (like excess incarceration of children) that DO exist, ...
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MDMA soaring in popularity in New Zealand, especially in schools
NewsHub 6 June 2021 Family First Comment: No surprises when some politicians and drug advocates are trying to normalise drug use in general… “ “I think we’re ...
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Cannabis has a carbon problem
High Country News 31 May 2021 Family First Comment: Don’t tell the Greens because it would wreck their campaigning, but indoor pot-growing gobbles up huge amounts ...
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State broadcaster RNZ does ‘sales pitch’ on polygamy / polyamory
Centrepoint: Neither free nor loving Radio NZ News 31 May 2021 Family First Comment: Our state broadcaster uses the recent TV documentary on Centrepoint to explain ...
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60 Minutes Shines a Light on Dangerous Cross-Sex Hormones
Minnesota Family Council 28 May 2021 Family First Comment: “I went for two appointments and after the second one I had my letter to go get ...
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Pot commercialization tied to self-harm by younger men, study suggests
Scope Stanford Medicine 16 April 2021 Family First Comment: More evidence that NZ made the right decision last year… “States that legalize recreational marijuana use, and ...
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FLASHBACK 2007: Debating Cindy Kiro on the anti-smacking law
In 2007 just before the anti-smacking law was rammed through parliament despite significant public opposition – and only passing because John Key ‘whipped’ all National ...
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I was the fastest girl. But transgender athletes made it unfair
USA Today February 2020 Family First Comment: I’ve lost four women’s state championship titles, two all-New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to ...
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Transgender Surgery Does Not Improve Mental Health
PJ Media 11 August 2020 Last year, a groundbreaking study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) claimed to prove that transgender surgery improves the mental ...
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How Does Porn Affect Teenagers?
John Foubert May 2021 Initial studies show that the adolescent brain is more sensitive to sexually explicit material than adult brains (Brown & Wisco, 2019). ...
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Calls for halt on new liquor stores after rising assaults in cities
Radio NZ News 25 May 2021 Family First Comment: How’s that ‘regulation’ and ‘control’ going? Not too good eh. “There’s so much injury that’s happening in ...
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