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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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Views on Marriage & Gender Identity Aren’t ‘Hate Speech’ – Poll
Media Release 6 January 2021 A new poll has found that just one in ten New Zealanders think it should be a crime to publicly ...
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Government Should Respect Cannabis Referendum Result – Poll
Media Release 30 December 2020 Polling by Curia Market Research has found that only 1 in 4 New Zealanders want the government to ignore the ...
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Canada’s Cannabis Use Continues To Climb
Media Release 23 December 2020 The latest data from Health Canada’s Canadian Cannabis Survey reveals that there has been three years of consecutive increases in ...
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Significant Youth Cannabis Use Increases in Legalised US States
Media Release 22 December 2020 US state-level data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the most authoritative study on drug use conducted ...
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The Government still wants to deregister us
The Supreme Court today announced that they will allow the Government to take Family First to the Supreme Court to appeal the recent Court of Appeal ...
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Visa & Mastercard Reject Profits From Pornhub
Media Release 11 December 2020 Family First NZ is stoked with a decision by Visa and Mastercard to cut ties with Pornhub following a report ...
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Drug Testing Will Give False Hope & Dangerous Message
Media Release 1 Dec 2020 Family First NZ says that allowing drug use and drug testing is flawed and dangerous, and is primarily being used ...
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Illegality of cannabis keeps use low – Ministry of Health
Latest data from the Ministry of Health shows that past 12 month use of cannabis has remained at just 14.9%. In contrast, 4 in 5 ...
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NZ Fertility Rate Continues To Plummet
Media Release 18 November 2020 New Zealand’s total fertility rate has reached an all-time low, with an average of 1.63 children per woman in New ...
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Mike’s Minute: Cannabis supporters should be gracious in defeat
NewsTalk ZB 9 November 2020 I was kind of hoping when we got the final cannabis and euthanasia result on Friday we might not get ...
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