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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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Cannabis referendum: Where support for legalisation was highest
NewsHub 7 November 2020 Data shows support for legalising cannabis was highest in Wellington, with 72 percent of voters casting their ballots in Wellington Central ...
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Special votes fail to swing cannabis referendum, weed won't be legalised in New Zealand
NewsHub 6 November 2020 New Zealand has voted not to legalise recreational cannabis, final referendum results show – despite special votes narrowing the margin of ...
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Why the NO campaign won (against all the odds)
Despite the YES campaign starting the debate with a 36-point lead two years ago (according to Horizon Polling), the SayNopetoDope campaign won the cannabis debate ...
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“The NZ cannabis referendum prove it’s the simple messages that cut through”
Cannabiz.com 4 November 2020 There’s a brilliant book about politics in the age of Donald Trump and Twitter called Yes We (Still) Can by Dan ...
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Mike’s Minute: We made the right call on cannabis
NewsTalk ZB 2 November 2020 Family First Comment: Well said, Mike…. “The Drug Foundation, an apolitical organisation, should be ashamed of itself, and it’s just as ...
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Kate Hawkesby: ‘We should be eternally grateful.’
NewsTalk ZB 2 November 2020 Family First Comment: Once again, Kate completely nails it… “I found the pro-campaign heavily one sided. It was bolstered by the ...
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Voters Confused by Medicinal Aspect of Cannabis Referendum
Media Release 2 November 2020 Polling carried out by Curia Market Research after the cannabis referendum vote has revealed that many voters were confused around ...
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Referendum results live: NZ votes yes on euthanasia
NZ Herald 30 October 2020 ACT leader David Seymour thanked MPs for supporting the End of Life Choice Bill through Parliament. He also thanked Dame ...
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“We’re pretty stoked – SayNopeToDope campaign celebrates referendum result”
Chlöe Swarbrick optimistic in light of unsuccessful cannabis referendum TVNZ One News 30 October 2020 Preliminary results for the recreational cannabis referendum showed 53.1% against and 46.1% ...
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Did misinformation sway cannabis referendum votes?
Stuff co.nz 1 November 2020 Family First Comment: The Yes campaign harped on that 80 per cent had tried cannabis – [those people] were annoyed ...
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Heather Du Plessis-Allan: It’s not Jacinda Ardern’s fault that NZ voted against legalising cannabis
NZ Herald 1 November 2020 Family First Comment: “While the “no” vote swung into action in an impressive way, the “yes” vote was AWOL,“ 👍😄 It ...
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