Latest News & Media Releases
In a world of ‘fake news’ and not being sure which media outlets you can truly trust, Family First does a daily check on key issues in the media affecting families and summarises them for you – including any necessary fact-check corrections! Our Media Releases have the common theme of promoting strong families, safe communities and the protection of life from conception to death.
Latest News & Media Releases
In a world of ‘fake news’ and not being sure which media outlets you can truly trust, Family First does a daily check on key issues in the media affecting families and summarises them for you – including any necessary fact-check corrections! Our Media Releases have the common theme of promoting strong families, safe communities and the protection of life from conception to death.
ChatGPT for teens was built to look safe, not be safe
Imagine a car seat your toddler could unclip whenever they got bored of it, and you’d only find out afterwards, by text message. That’s roughly ...
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App Store Accountability Bill Proposed To Strengthen Online Safety For Children
Family First is calling on all political parties to adopt its App Store Accountability Bill, designed to target an obvious ‘choke point’ for accessing digital ...
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WPATH admit their position is debatable
MEDIA RELEASE – 17 August 2026 WPATH Admission Raises Serious Questions About Gender Treatment Guidelines in NZ Family First NZ is calling on the Government ...
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Assisted-suicide prescriptions continue climbing in Colorado
Colorado’s latest End-of-Life Options Act 2025 report has been released, showing prescriptions for assisted suicide medicine hit a new high of 580 in 2025. These latest ...
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Mission Drift: When Charities Lose Sight Of Their Purpose They Lose Their Soul
Sadly many charitable organisations that once began with a compelling, venerable mission, have now drifted far from that in pursuit of “trendy” cultural issues. An ...
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Surge in demand creates intense competition for places in faith-based schools
Surge in demand is creating intense competition for places in New Zealand's faith-based schools. The faith-based schools are clearly doing something right, while the reputation ...
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Bruce Logan – Tell me please, what is racism?
Accused of racism, Winston Peters is under the pump again. But what is ‘racism’ and what are we saying when we accuse somebody of it? Research ...
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250+ Young People Change Birth ‘Gender’
More than 250 young people have changed the sex on their birth certificate since the new birth certificate law came into force on 15 June ...
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Italian doctors pushback against childrens gender-affirming guide
Italy has become the latest country where the affirmative model of gender care for minors is facing internal professional pushback — following the UK’s Cass ...
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Ontario court battle exposes troubling realities of surrogacy
A Canadian surrogacy case has reached the Ontario Superior Court after the relationship between a same-sex couple and their surrogate broke down. The case highlights ...
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NZ Forum On The Family 2026 – Register Now
Not to be missed - the annual New Zealand Forum on the Family is bringing together some exceptional international speakers - being held across both ...
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Australian nursing journal removes article questioning claims of increased transgender suicide risk
Australia’s largest nursing association recently removed an article challenging the commonly asserted claim that suicide risk increases in the absence of transgender healthcare. Published in ...
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Inside the court battle over puberty blockers ban for under-18s
This week in Wellington, the High Court heard detailed legal arguments on a question that has been fiercely debated in public for two years but ...
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Latest NZ assisted suicide numbers show growth without scrutiny
New Zealand’s Registrar of Assisted Dying has just released the fifth annual report on the End of Life Choice Act, and the headline figure is ...
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Speak up to protect biology, and women
MPs have just been confronted with what is supposedly the most vexed question of our times – what is a woman? One MP described even asking ...
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US Supreme Court upholds State bans on male athletes in women’s and girls sport
On June 30th, the US Supreme Court ruled that states can exclude transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports teams. The justices unanimously held that laws ...
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Netherlands reports first child under 12 Euthanasia case
The Netherlands has euthanised a child under the age of twelve for the first time, reigniting debate over how far euthanasia laws should extend. Dutch ...
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HRC’s Conversion Therapy Unit Finds… Nothing
The 2.25 million dollar taxpayer-funded complaints centre set up by the then-Labour government via the Human Rights Commission for generating complaints about ‘conversion therapy’ has ...
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PATHA vs Government: High court showdown over puberty blockers ban for children
The debate over puberty blockers is no longer theoretical. It is no longer hypothetical and speculative. And it is no longer confined to activist slogans. ...
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Book Review – One Last Question, Prime Minister
Sue Reid reviews the book - One Last Question, Prime Minister by political journalist Barry Soper. One Last Question, Prime Minister is the story of ...
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The rising evidence on cannabis and adolescent harm
Kiwi families, communities, and especially our young people are already paying a heavy price for a culture that has grown too casual about and perhaps ...
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USA study finds adolescent cannabis use linked to slower cognitive development
A recent study out of the UC San Diego School of Medicine has found that teenagers who start using cannabis experience slower development in their ...
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EU tries to silence pro-family voices at UN Population Commission
Earlier this month, during the 59th session of the UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD59), the European Union (EU) attempted to introduce language that ...
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RSE framework – consultation period ending this Friday 24 April
Last chance to give feedback on proposed RSE (Relationships and Sexuality Education) framework. Last year the Ministry of Education developed a draft framework in preparation ...
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Oregon’s assisted suicide prescriptions hit record high in 2025
While New Zealand debates expanding euthanasia, Oregon’s latest Death with Dignity report shows prescriptions for lethal drugs reached a new record of 637 in 2025 ...
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Netherlands hits record 10,341 euthanasia deaths in 2025
The runaway train continues. The Netherlands has released its yearly report on euthanasia, revealing that 10,341 individuals died by euthanasia in 2025 — the highest ...
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What is a Woman? Private Member’s Bill will expose which MPs can define truth and biology
New Zealand First has proposed a Definitions of Woman and Man Amendment Bill, a Private Member’s Bill drawn for debate in April 2026, aimed at ...
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Forum on the Family 2026 – Save the Date
Not to be missed – the 18th annual New Zealand Forum on the Family. Save the date - 11-12 September 2026.
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New Finnish research challenges “lifesaving” claim for youth gender treatment
A recent Finnish study found that psychiatric problems tend to worsen rather than improve after the hormonal and surgical interventions offered by gender clinics. In ...
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US Supreme Court rules 8-1 against Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” counseling
In a significant 8-1 ruling earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Colorado cannot use its licensing power to silence licensed counsellors who ...
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SPEAK UP! Easter, Christmas & Anzac Day “Booze Bill”
The attempts continue by our politicians to liberalise our trading laws during four specific public / holy days – three of those four centred around ...
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Abortion pill dominates as US records 1.13 Million abortions in 2025
A new Guttmacher Institute (a reproductive health research organisation) report estimates that about 1.13 million abortions occurred in the United States in 2025, representing an ...
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Alberta government proposes new safeguards for medically assisted dying
In just four years, deaths from assisted suicide/assisted dying in Alberta, Canada, increased by 109 percent. This is the reality Premier Danielle Smith’s government in ...
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UK House of Lords votes for abortion decriminalisation
In a troubling development for abortion law in England and Wales, the House of Lords has rejected amendments aiming to remove or alter Clause 208 ...
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Scottish Parliament chooses life as assisted dying bill falls
On 17 March 2026, the Scottish Parliament rejected the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill at Stage 3, with 69 MSPs voting against, ...
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The gap between cannabis hype and cannabis science just got harder to ignore
Alongside chronic pain, mental health conditions are among the most common reasons people turn to marijuana for medical use. However, a comprehensive review of cannabis ...
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App Store Accountability Bill Proposed To Strengthen Online Safety For Children
Family First is calling on the government, or individual Members of Parliament, to adopt its App Store Accountability Bill, designed to target an obvious ‘choke ...
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U.S. casts lone vote against UN’s gender identity agenda
For the first time in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women’s (CSW) 70-year history, the Agreed Conclusions were not adopted by consensus. ...
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Age verification for online adult content comes into force in Australia
At Family First, we have long warned that the digital Wild West has exposed children to objectionable material that no responsible parent would allow in ...
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New Zealand is paying more to end lives than care for them
A frontline New Zealand GP has exposed a troubling financial incentive at the heart of our end-of-life system — assisted dying pays up to six ...
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EU’s backdoor move redirects social funds toward abortion access
The European Commission has declined to establish a new dedicated EU-wide funding mechanism for abortion access, as requested by the “My Voice, My Choice” European ...
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France pushes to open the door to euthanasia
Yesterday, the French National Assembly voted on passing a bill legalising assisted dying. This marks the next phase in a year-long debate on euthanasia and assisted dying. ...
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New research shows adolescent cannabis use linked to higher psychiatric risks
It is no secret that many young people believe that marijuana is a safe and natural drug and is the most commonly tried illegal drug ...
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New research highlights how Fatherhood strengthens child well-being
For decades, researchers have focused on mother-child dynamics, parenting styles, and their effects on psychological well-being and physical health. However, recent research has examined fatherhood ...
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