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Family First In Court Of Appeal To Fight Deregistration
Media Release 17 October 2019 Family First’s continued fight against attempts by the government’s Charities Registration Board to deregister them is set to continue in ...
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95% Of Submitters Being Muzzled On Abortion
Media Release 9 October 2019 Family First NZ says that the Select Committee considering radical changes to our abortion laws has admitted that it’s muzzling ...
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March for Life 2019
Save the Date: Come and March For Life in Wellington 7 December Organisers of New Zealand’s National March for Life are urging all people of ...
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Abortion Debate Being Shut Down By Select Committee
Media Release 29 September 2019 Family First NZ says that a significant number of submitters to the Abortion Legislation Bill who want to make an ...
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Abortion Liberalisation Debate Must Not Be Rushed
Media Release 25 September 2019 Family First NZ is welcoming news that there has been a strong response to the Abortion Legislation Bill with more ...
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Latest Colorado Report Shows Ongoing Disaster of Marijuana
Media Release 19 September 2019 Family First NZ says that a new Colorado report compiled by the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area finds marijuana-positive traffic ...
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Vaping Epidemic Is Big Dream For Big Marijuana
Media Release 19 September 2019 Family First NZ says that the health concerns and costs around vaping will be far greater if cannabis is legalised. ...
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‘Unplanned’ Movie Lands in NZ – Amidst Abortion Debate
Media Release 16 September 2019 The ‘Unplanned’ movie is here and Family First has secured one of the first screenings in New Zealand Monday 16th. ...
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1 in 6 mothers experience ‘relationship transitions’ before child is 5
Media Release 15 September 2019 Family First Comment: “17.3% of mothers were categorised as having experienced 1-4 relationship transitions from pregnancy to the 4.5-year interview… almost ...
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Ex-Abortionist’s Testimony Impacts Abortion Debate
Media Release 9 September 2019 An 17-minute interview with a New Zealand ex-abortionist has had over 123,000 views in a fortnight, and an explanation of ...
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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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