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“Keep Going” – A personal message from Bob McCoskrie
The new law banning ‘conversion therapy’ which was passed in Parliament this evening will criminalise certain expressions of parental love, prayer, personal choice and preaching. Unfortunately, ...
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Jobless because of the mandates
Throughout New Zealand, thousands of unvaccinated kiwis are losing their employment because of the “no jab no job” policies – and it’s not just our ...
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UPDATE: Final vote on ‘Conversion Therapy’ ban in Parliament
On Tuesday evening 15th February, MPs will be holding the final vote on a new law which will ban ‘conversion therapy’. All New Zealanders should ...
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UPDATE: ‘Conversion therapy’ ban
Last night, the politicians debated amendments to the flawed and dangerous ‘conversion therapy’ ban – which legal opinions written by a leading New Zealand QC, a ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – ‘Don’t Divide Us’ Petition is ‘Tabled’ in Parliament
The petition “Don’t Divide Us.nz” which has 87,269 signatures, has today been tabled in Parliament. The petition which was launched at the beginning of November last year ...
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UK – Delaying a controversial ban on conversion therapy for trans people
As New Zealand rushes the flawed ‘Conversion Therapy’ ban into law this week, the UK is instead undertaking an independent report into the impact of ...
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Teachers in home isolation “putting huge pressure on schools”
There’s already a shortage of teachers in New Zealand, so any additional ‘outage’ of teaching staff, due to vaccine mandates or home isolation, is putting ...
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WATCH: Top Family Issues 2022
Parliament is back in session this week for the first time in 2022. Now you might rightly think that the priorities for the Government are ...
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Crime = Prayer, Parental Love, Personal Choice
The Select Committee report on the proposed ban on ‘conversion therapy’ has just been released – and as expected, it makes disturbing reading. They have completely ignored all concerns which ...
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Research: TikTok Serves up ‘Humorous’ Cannabis Videos to Teens
It’s very concerning that teens are at risk of illicit drug use after being exposed to TikTok videos that portray cannabis-use as “humorous or entertaining” ...
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Pregnant man emoji coming to Apple iPhones
Pregnant man? Like the media, Big Tech have become increasingly woke, and increasingly confused on biology. The continued push to make the biologically specific phenomenon ...
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Festival One forced to cancel
Festival One being forced to cancel is terribly sad, but was completely avoidable yet totally predictable. While 60,000 fans fill a soccer stadium every day ...
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Research – Significant Association Between Cannabis Use and Psychotic Disorders
Researchers find that recreational use of cannabis was significantly associated with a diagnosis of psychotic disorder. Their findings have been published in The American Journal ...
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Trans women athletes hold competitive edge, even after testosterone suppression
Scientists argue that transgender female athletes hold a competitive edge over their biologically female competitors that one year of testosterone suppression therapy cannot mitigate. You ...
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Rise of vaping-addicted teens in NZ
One in five New Zealand secondary school students are now addicted to vaping according to research by the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation, which surveyed more ...
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NZ Importer has 3.5 million rapid antigen tests but can’t get approval from Ministry of Health
Yesterday we shared that NZ health experts are now saying rapid antigen tests will be a critical tool for managing Covid-19 in New Zealand, with ...
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Rapid antigen tests a “critical tool for managing Omicron”
For some time we’ve been advocating for the addition of rapid antigen tests (RATs) in the fight against Covid-19. Now even Dr Michael Baker is ...
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Canada’s Conversion Therapy Ban – Consent by adults is now illegal
After two failed attempts, Canada has now banned conversion therapy. Advocates say it’s one of the most comprehensive (meaning it’s ‘extreme’) laws of its kind ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – Three Strikes Debate Is Being Sidelined
Media Release 5 January 2022 Family First NZ says that debate is needed on the Government’s proposal to repeal the Three Strikes law, a law ...
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Important Update – Judicial Review on Church Vaccine Mandates
APPLICATION FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW ON CHURCH VACCINE MANDATE As you will be aware, last week we presented a petition to Parliament with 87,000+ signatures, calling ...
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USA: Think Legal Weed Cut Down On Crime? Think Again
Just like we’ve been saying – legalising dope does not reduce crime. In fact it looks like crime increases, with gangs moving in to scoop ...
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