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The Case For NO In The 2020 Referendum on Cannabis
Media Release 4 Sep 2019 In response to the promotion of cannabis legalisation by Helen Clark, Family First is continuing to promote its 24-page BRIEFING ...
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Fewer Men Celebrate Father’s Day
Media Release 31 August 2019 ‘Families: Ever Fewer, or No Children: How Worried Should We Be?’ – a new report just released by Family First ...
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TVNZ Rebuked For Scary Adult Promo During Kids Movie
Media Release 30 August 2019 Family First NZ is welcoming a decision by the Broadcasting Standards Authority to uphold a complaint that a promo for ...
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Lunch In Schools Feeds The Problem, Ignores Real Issue
Media Release 29 August 2019 Family First NZ says that lunch in schools programmes will simply exacerbate the problem, provide a short term bandage, but ...
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Pros and Cons Of “All-Time Low” Fertility Rate – Report
Media Release 30 August 2019 New Zealand’s total fertility rate has reached an all-time low, with an average of 1.71 children per woman in New ...
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Tackling Harms of Pornography Should Be High Priority
Media Release 26 August 2019 Family First NZ is welcoming the Government’s intention to tackle the harms of pornography, and are also continuing to call ...
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Raising Drinking Age Just One Tool To Tackle Harm
Media Release 26 August 2019 Family First NZ is supporting a call by the Police to raise the drinking age, which echoes previous calls by ...
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Support for Recreational Dope Going ‘Up in Smoke’
Media Release 17 August 2019 Family First NZ is welcoming yet another poll showing plummeting support for legalising cannabis in New Zealand. The Horizon Research ...
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Hospitalisation For Marijuana Continues To Increase
Media Release 14 August 2019 More damning statistics of marijuana hospitalisations in New Zealand are further proof that we should go nowhere legalising cannabis. Family ...
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Make A Submission Against the Abortion Bill
Parliament has just voted the ‘Abortion Legislation Bill’ through its first reading. It is now being considered by a special Select Committee formed just for ...
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HOW THEY VOTED: Who Voted to Protect the Unborn Child (1st Reading)
August 2019 It was a dark and shameful day today as 94 members of Parliament voted for a radical bill that attempts to remove any legal ...
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Pregnant Teens Can Self-Refer For Abortions With No Safeguards
Media Release 7 August 2019 Family First NZ says that the proposed abortion law reforms will result in the ability of teenagers to self-refer for ...
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Late Term Abortions Will Increase With Abortion Reform
Media Release 7 August 2019 Family First NZ says that proposed abortion law reform will lead to more late term abortions, and radical abortion groups ...
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Radical Abortion Law Reform Is Deeply Anti-Human Rights
Media Release 4 August 2019 Family First NZ is shocked and dismayed with the Government’s coming release tomorrow of attempts to radically liberalise abortion laws, ...
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Abortion Law Reform Deeply Flawed & Anti Human Rights
Media Release 23 July 2019 Family First NZ is shocked and dismayed with the Government’s and the Prime Minister’s obsession with life and death issues, ...
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Petition Fights For Human Rights Of Unborn Children
Media Release 23 July 2019 A petition of more than 13,000 New Zealanders opposing the Government’s proposed liberalisation of abortion laws is being presented to ...
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National Correct to Oppose Decriminalisation of All Drugs
Media Release 8 July 2019 Family First NZ is welcoming National’s opposition to the decriminalisation of all drugs. The statements in the Select Committee report ...
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Bill Rewritten To Explicitly Ignore Women With Post-Abortion Grief
Media Release 29 June 2019 Family First NZ is shocked that a Labour MP’s private members bill which allowed for bereavement leave for a miscarriage ...
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MPs Voting ‘Blind’ On Euthanasia Bill
Media Release 27 June 2019 Family First NZ says that MPs have had to vote ‘blind’ on a bill labelled by the Select Committee as ...
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New Resource Clarifies Current & Proposed Abortion Law
Media Release 18 June 2019 Family First has released a new resource to help New Zealanders understand the current abortion law and also the proposals ...
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Time For Govt To Establish Watchdog For Oranga Tamariki
Media Release 17 June 2019 Family First NZ is repeating its call for a fully independent watchdog for Oranga Tamariki. Family First has been calling ...
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