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FAMILY MATTERS: Brendan Malone on technocracy and the rising managerial class
Family First’s Simon O’Connor chats with cultural commentator, Brendan Malone, about the rise of 'technocracy' and the 'managerial class' here in New Zealand and around ...
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Solid Ground with Simon O’Connor – 24th Sep 2024
Here’s Solid Ground with Simon O’Connor – for Tuesday 24th Sept 2024. Join Simon as he discusses the issues of the day and takes your ...
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McBLOG: “Our babies have barcodes”
The new Government is super-keen to ram through a law making surrogacy way more easier. The question that nobody is asking: Should we be making ...
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StraightTalk – 23rd Sep 2024
Here’s the StraightTalk livestream for 23rd Sept 2024. The Straight Talk panel discuss and debate the key issues without any constraints. StraightTalk gets straight to ...
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McBLOG: Kamala’s dangerous abortion lies are costing lives
According to Kamala Harris and the pro abortion mainstream media, women are dying in the US because pro-life laws don’t allow abortion on demand. Last ...
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McBLOG: Yes, the NZ Herald did sink this low
The agenda of the once great NZ Herald is becoming very clear – and for those who weren’t sure, this week removed any doubt. In ...
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Political Playback – 19th Sep 2024
Here’s the latest episode of our new live show “Political Playback” with Simon O’Connor and Bob McCoskrie – looking back at the week in politics. ...
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FAMILY MATTERS: UK Doctor talks abortion reversal pills – PART TWO
Dr Dermot Kearney is a consultant cardiologist and general physician in the United Kingdom. He was recently investigated by their medical council for having prescribed ...
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PulsePoint – 19th Sep 2024
Welcome to PulsePoint - the latest media stories and research related to family and society that you need to know about. It’s time to cut ...
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FAMILY MATTERS – UK Doctor talks abortion reversal pills – PART ONE
Dr Dermot Kearney is a consultant cardiologist and general physician in the United Kingdom. He was recently investigated by their medical council for having prescribed ...
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StraightTalk – 16th Sep 2024
Here’s the StraightTalk livestream for 16th Sept 2024. The Straight Talk panel discuss and debate the key issues without any constraints. StraightTalk gets straight to ...
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McBLOG: Did Victoria University’s ‘conversion therapy’ work on me?
A ‘study’ by Victoria University says that reducing stigma towards people with a sexual attraction to children (aka "paedophile") is important for mitigating the negative ...
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McBLOG: Massey University pushes “viewpoint out of place in a primary school”
We’ve been sent a survey which has been sent to primary school principals around NZ by an “Educational Psychologist and Senior Lecturer” at Massey University. ...
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Political Playback – 12th Sep 2024
Here’s the latest episode of our new live show “Political Playback” with Simon O’Connor and Bob McCoskrie – looking back at the week in politics. ...
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PulsePoint – 12th Sep 2024
Welcome to PulsePoint for 11th September 2024 - the latest media stories and research related to family and society that you need to know about. ...
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FAMILY MATTERS: Marriage Week with Wynand Jacobs
It's Marriage Week, so Simon O'Connor from Family First sits down again with Wynand Jacobs of Family Life NZ to talk about the resources and ...
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Solid Ground with Simon O’Connor – 10th Sep 2024
Here’s Solid Ground with Simon O’Connor – for Tuesday 10th Sept 2024. Join Simon as he discusses the issues of the day and takes your ...
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StraightTalk – 9th Sep 2024
Here’s the StraightTalk livestream for 9th Sept 2024. The Straight Talk panel discuss and debate the key issues without any constraints. StraightTalk gets straight to ...
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McBLOG – Paedophiles & ‘stigma’, ‘orientation’, ‘victim’ – Where did it come from?
Activists and academics want to play linguistic gymnastics with the term “paedophile”. The movement is even going so far as to claim that paedophilia should ...
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McBLOG: Paedophiles portrayed as ‘victims’ by Victoria Uni
Victoria University rebranding paedophiles as ‘victims’ !! Just over a month ago, the Royal Commission’s final report, Whanaketia – through pain and trauma, from darkness ...
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PulsePoint – 5th Sep 2024
Welcome to PulsePoint for 6th Sept 2024 - the latest media stories and research related to family and society that you need to know about. ...
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Political Playback – 5th Sep 2024
Here’s the latest episode of our new live show “Political Playback” with Simon O’Connor and Bob McCoskrie – looking back at the week in politics. ...
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FAMILY MATTERS: Alisa Childers – Deconstruction, Donald, Democrats & Demise
Alisa Childers is a wife, mum, author, podcaster, blogger, and speaker. She was a member of the award-winning CCM recording group ZOEgirl. She is currently ...
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Solid Ground with Simon O’Connor – 3rd Sep 2024
Here’s Solid Ground with Simon O’Connor – for Tuesday 3rd Sept 2024. Join Simon as he discusses the issues of the day and takes your ...
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StraightTalk – 2nd Sep 2024
Here’s the StraightTalk livestream for 2nd Sept 2024. The Straight Talk panel discuss and debate the key issues without any constraints. StraightTalk gets straight to ...
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McBLOG: Dear media, my preferred pronouns are hu/hu
Dear woke media, my preferred pronouns are hu/hu... As a champion of rescuing small bugs like daddy long-legs, cockroaches and small spiders from his daughters' ...
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Political Playback – 29th Aug 2024
Here’s the latest episode of our new live show “Political Playback” with Simon O’Connor and Bob McCoskrie – looking back at the week in politics. ...
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McBLOG: 1News’ social media policy… good for some
1News claims that “comments that are discriminatory or harmful will not be tolerated” on their social media accounts. We do a fact check - and ...
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Solid Ground with Simon O’Connor – 27th Aug 2024
Here’s Solid Ground with Simon O’Connor – for Tuesday 27th Aug 2024. Join Simon as he discusses the issues of the day and takes your ...
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StraightTalk – 26th Aug 2024
26th August 2024 – StraightTalk with Family First. Straight to the heart of the matter – no apologies, no compromise.
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McBLOG: Even the left are getting sick of the left-wing media bias
We highlight two recent fascinating interviews from the USA regarding the left wing bias of CNN, and two news media examples from New Zealand, which ...
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McBLOG: Bob fails to help media with their wokeness
On Sunday, the saga of Green MP Darleen Tana was covered by TVNZ's Q&A. What you quickly realise is that when things are scripted, it’s ...
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PulsePoint – 22nd Aug 2024
Welcome to PulsePoint for 22nd August 2024 - the latest media stories and research related to family and society that you need to know about ...
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Political Playback – 22nd Aug 2024
Here’s the latest episode of our new live show “Political Playback” with Simon O’Connor and Bob McCoskrie – looking back at the week in politics. ...
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FAMILY MATTERS: Concerns for Christians – Tim Dieppe
Simon O’Connor from Family First talks with Tim Dieppe, the Head of Public Policy for Christian Concern – a United Kingdom based advocacy group. They ...
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McBLOG: Bob schools the media & politicians on personal pronouns
You've probably all heard of disgraced Green MP Darleen Tana. Tana left the Green Party in July, when it received the findings of an independent ...
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StraightTalk – 19th Aug 2024
19th August 2024 – StraightTalk with Family First. Straight to the heart of the matter – no apologies, no compromise.
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McBLOG: Human Rights Commission treds on new ‘terf’
The Government has just appointed some new Human Rights Commissioners. The problem is that they believe in free speech, believe that only a woman can ...
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FAMILY MATTERS: Embracing the ‘untouchables’
Imagine being seen as so low, that as a human being you are treated worse than animals. This is the case of the ‘untouchables’ or ...
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Political Playback – 15th Aug 2024
Here’s the latest episode of our new live show “Political Playback” with Simon O’Connor and Bob McCoskrie – looking back at the week in politics. ...
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PulsePoint – 15th Aug 2024
Welcome to PulsePoint for 15th August 2024 – the latest media stories and research related to family and society that you need to know about ...
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McBLOG: Project 2025 – Why you’ll love it, but the media don’t
Project 2025 report was unveiled in April 2023 by the Heritage Foundation and supported by 100+ conservative organisations, but left-wing opposition to the document exploded ...
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McBLOG: Woke breakdancing & non-binary ‘women’
The Olympics is over – and many people may be very glad about that. There has been a lot of woke controversy and demonstrations of ...
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Solid Ground with Simon O’Connor – 13th Aug 2024
Here’s Solid Ground with Simon O’Connor – for Tuesday 13th Aug 2024. Join Simon as he discusses the issues of the day and takes your ...
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StraightTalk – 12th Aug 2024
12th August 2024 – StraightTalk with Family First. Straight to the heart of the matter – no apologies, no compromise.
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