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MEDIA RELEASE: Calls Build For Ban On Puberty Blockers For Teens
Media Release 11 May 2021 Medical professionals and groups are sounding growing international concern around the use of puberty blockers to treat young people with ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Paper Plus and Mighty Ape Kowtow to Cancel Culture
Media Release 8 May 2021 Family First NZ says that book retailers are kowtowing to gender activists rather than allowing a debate on the best ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Schools Rightly Rejecting Govt’s Sex Ed
Media Release 8 May 2021 Family First says it is not surprised that less than 15% of schools are using Government funded programmes on sexual ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Medicinal Marijuana Regime: Cautious But Compassionate
Media Release 6 May 2021 “Family First NZ supports a cautious and researched approach around medicinal marijuana, but also supports a compassionate response to those ...
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Decriminalising Drugs – Lessons from Portugal (2021)
What lessons can we learn from a report about Portugal’s decriminalisation of drugs.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Official Data Reveals Failure Of Anti-Smacking Law
Media Release 30 April 2021 Family First NZ says that the latest research on smacking in New Zealand has completely ignored the bigger picture of ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Safe Areas Bill ‘Poorly Drafted’, ‘Deeply Flawed’ – Legal Opinion
Media Release 27 April 2021 A legal opinion by a leading QC has labelled the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill as poorly ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Support For Lower Speeds Outside School Gates
Media Release 26 April 2021 Family First NZ is supporting government proposals to reduce the speed limit nationally to no more than 40km/h around all ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: New Law Will Ignore Women With Post-Abortion Grief
Media Release 24 March 2021 Politicians will today vote for a new law which will allow employees to be eligible for three days of bereavement ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: One Informal Complaint Over 10 Years Re ‘Conversion Therapy’
Media Release 15 March 2021 The Human Rights Commission in response to an Official Information Act request from Family First NZ has admitted that there ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Birth Certificates To Be Based On Ideology Not Biology
Media Release 14 March 2021 The Government has confirmed it will push through a law change which will deem birth certificates meaningless. Birth certificates will ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Medicinal Marijuana Regime Should Be Cautious But Compassionate
Media Release 10 March 2021 Family First NZ is welcoming National MP Dr Shane Reti’s medicinal marijuana bill, due for its 1st Reading today, saying ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Family First Backs Global Push For Criminal Investigation Into Mindgeek/Pornhub For Crimes Against Children
Media Release 8 March 2021 Family First NZ has joined forces with 104 sexual exploitation survivors and 525 NGOs from 65 countries calling on the ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: California’s Cannabis Legalisation Leads To Increase In Youth Use
Media Release 17 February 2021 A new study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs has found that youth who live in California ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Ministry of Health Advised No Ban on ‘Conversion Therapy’
Media Release 16 February 2021 Official advice to the Minister and Associate Minister of Health regarding ‘conversion therapy’ has revealed that a ban is not ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Effects of ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban Rejected by Kiwis – Poll
Media Release 10 February 2021 A nationwide poll has found that there is widespread opposition to the legal effects of a ‘conversion therapy’ ban. In ...
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Cannabis Harms User Regardless Of Age Started – Australian Study
Media Release 1 February 2021 A longitudinal study led by the University of Queensland in collaboration with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of ...
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Significant Media Bias During Cannabis Referendum – Analysis
Media Release 20 January 2021 An in-depth analysis of media coverage of the euthanasia and cannabis referendums has found that while both sides of the ...
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Majority Of Kiwis Want Continued Monitoring Of Abortions
Media Release 17 January 2021 A nationwide poll has found majority support for the government to continue to closely monitor abortions in New Zealand and ...
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Gender Curriculum Rejected, Support For Opt-In Sex Ed – Poll
Media Release 13 January 2021 A new poll has found increasing opposition to gender ideology being taught to children in schools, and increasing support for ...
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