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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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Family First New Zealand recognises the importance of protecting an individual’s privacy. When you subscribe to our emails OR when you donate…. By providing Family ...
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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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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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