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. 

Dr sinead donnelly. NZ doctors against euthanasia

NZ doctors very concerned about recommendations in euthanasia review.

Doctors in New Zealand have spoken out highlighting huge concerns with some of the recommendations in the recent End Of Life Choice Act review. In ...
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Candace Owens

Legal action after Candace Owens banned from speaking in NZ.

Legal action is set to be taken against the Crown after Candace Owens was banned from entering New Zealand to speak. The Free Speech Union ...
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Family breakdowns are affecting our schooling system.

An education report has highlighted how family breakdowns are one of the reasons behind the current struggles in our schooling system. Increasing violence, more absenteeism ...
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Drug use continues to rise in Aotearoa.

Easy access and lower prices have seen drug use continue to increase in New Zealand. The NZ Health Survey results show all the illicit drugs ...
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Anger grows as consultation further delays safeguards – Puberty Blockers

There is growing anger that the latest review of puberty blockers has not brought about immediate action. The harmful affects of puberty blockers have been ...
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Overview – End of Life Choice Act Review

The review into the End of Life Choice Act was released last week and we think it is important to provide a detailed summary of ...
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Vanuatu bans gay marriage

Vanuatu’s government has passed a law to ban gay marriage. As reported in Vanuatu’s Daily Post, the Marriage Act Amendment which was passed last week ...
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Violence towards Christians escalates

Violence towards Christians, and in particular church leaders, continues at an alarming rate around the world. In its report released last week, The Observatory on ...
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Kiwi parents concerned about indoctrination in schools

Concerned Kiwi parents have reached out to the government about public schools overstepping the mark by indoctrinating their children. Last week, ACT Party leader David ...
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Thankfully we vote nope to dope

While the NZ media continue their campaign for drugs and to legalise marijuana – yes, they’re still trying, I’ll show you some recent examples shortly ...
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Pharmac moves to “demedicalise” abortion

Pharmac says it is “demedicalising” abortion in its latest move to fund at home testing kits. The crown entity has this week announced it will ...
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Attempts to silence an anti-abortion campaigner in Australia

Anti-abortion campaigner, Dr Joanna Howe, has been banned from the South Australian parliament, in what she says is a “hit job” in an attempt to ...
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Free speech under threat in Australia

Free speech under threat in Australia

A bill which aims to limit free speech continues to make its way through the Australian Parliament. The Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill 2024 had ...
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de-banking conservative bank accounts?

Is the de-banking of New Zealand conservatives on the way?

Will those who hold social conservative values and beliefs still be able to have a bank account in New Zealand soon? This is already happening ...
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Why you should reject the term Christian nationalism

Why you should reject the term “Christian nationalism”

The term "Christian nationalism" has been thrown around at anybody who wants to align their voting with their values. Especially if those values are from the ...
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Warnings of Wild West Of Medicinal Cannabis

MEDIA RELEASE: Warnings of Wild West Of Medicinal Cannabis

Family First is calling for caution around the use of medicinal cannabis which, when loosely regulated, can result in mental and behavioural disorders due to ...
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Bill Focusing On Palliative Care Welcomed

MEDIA RELEASE: Bill Focusing On Palliative Care Welcomed

Family First NZ is welcoming the Private Members Bill from NZ First MP Tanya Unkovich - ‘Improving Access to Palliative Care Bill’ – which seeks ...
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Crackdown on transgender sports participation in NZ

The Government is demanding a crackdown on how transgender people participate in sports. Sport and Recreation Minister Chris Bishop has asked Sport NZ to review ...
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Potenially Wrongful Deaths

Media Release: Euthanasia’s ‘Safeguards’ Are Failing

Family First is appalled, but not surprised, to read the testimony of two whistleblowers from the End of Life Review committee. Potentially wrongful deaths; incomplete ...
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Trump is set to break the hearts of pro-lifers if elected

Evidence is growing that the 2016 Donald Trump, who so courageously defended the unborn, has now totally flipped the script. With the US election next ...
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student violence in schools

Lockdowns being used as scapegoat for increasing student violence

Statistics obtained by Family First suggests that escalating school student violence should not be solely blamed on the covid-19 lockdowns.
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Suicide Capsule - suffocating the user to death

The “Sarco” suicide capsule used to euthanise people

'The Sarco' is a suicide capsule which reduces oxygen and pumps in nitrogen, suffocating the user to death in around 10 minutes. It was developed ...
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Gender dysphoric Kiwi kids

Gender dysphoric Kiwi kids are one of the world’s most medicated

Easy access to puberty blockers has seen New Zealand children become one of the most medicated populations in the world – when it comes to ...
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Yet more radical changes to birth certificates

Yet more radical changes to birth certificates

More evidence this week that New Zealand is continuing to reject natural creation, with our government leading the way. Parents will able to choose how ...
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Trust in Media Declines

Kiwi’s trust in the media declines to a new low.

Kiwi's trust in the media is at its lowest point in the last decade. The data is from Statistics New Zealand's shows that trust in ...
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Simon O'Connor on Q+A with Jack Tame

Simon O’Connor on Q+A with Jack Tame

Family First's Simon O'Connor appeared on TVNZ's Q&A this morning to push back on attempts to widen our euthanasia laws. In our view, he did a superb ...
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The Week in Review

The week in review – 22nd September

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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400+ Children Change Sex On Passport Since 2015

400+ Children Change Sex On Passport Since 2015

More than 400 children have changed the sex on their passport since 2015, including almost 300 children 15 years or younger. Under the Passports Act ...
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Surrogacy Laws in NZ

Surrogacy Laws in NZ – 2024 update

The new Government has reviewed our surrogacy laws, made some changes as recommended by the Law Commission, and is now seeking public submissions. Family First opposed the ...
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Disturbing Data In Latest Assisted Dying Report

MEDIA RELEASE: Disturbing Data In Latest “Assisted Dying” Report

The latest review of assisted suicide / euthanasia was quietly released last month by the Ministry of Health – but it should sound significant and ...
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Media Release - Birth Certificates

MEDIA RELEASE: 110+ Children / Teens Change Birth Certificate

Children are changing the sex on their birth certificate since the new law came into force on 15 June last year, including 47 children 15 ...
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Review of Transgender & Non-Binary Protections in the Human Rights Act

We oppose the intentions of the proposed review of the protections in the Human Rights Act 1993 for people who are transgender, non-binary and people ...
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Petition Presented to Parliament

“What is a woman?” 23,500+ Petition Presented to Parliament

A petition calling for ‘woman’ to be defined as ‘an adult human female’ in all our laws, public policies and regulations and signed by more ...
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Review of “Hillbilly Elegy” by JD Vance

Since Former President and Presidential Nominee Donald Trump announced his Vice President running partner, the world has wondered who James Donald Vance is and as ...
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Should women unite with trans-women that are biological men

Should women unite with trans-women (biological men)?

Will you be uniting with trans activists, for the right to indoctrinate little kids, for enabling biological males to wander into female toilets, and for ...
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Government Ignores Safety, Fairness & Public Opinion in WOMENS Sports

MEDIA RELEASE: Government Ignores Safety, Fairness & Public Opinion in Womens Sports

Family First says that the coalition government is ignoring the safety and fairness required in sports especially for women, but also strong public opinion, by ...
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No to school pride week

No ‘Pride’ Sexualising Children

As part of indoctrinating a radical and extreme sexuality & gender ideology to our children, there is now "Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa" for NZ schools ...
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Smartphones and the Gen Z mental health crisis

The co-Founder of My Food Bag and founder and co-CEO of primary health care provider Tend Health, Cecelia Robinson recently penned an article on Gen ...
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WokeUp NZ website

MEDIA RELEASE: New website showcases ‘woke’ businesses

A new website WokeUp.nz has just been launched by Family First NZ. The website documents wokeness in New Zealand-based businesses so that Kiwi consumers can ...
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The rise of boutique multiculturalism

Bruce Logan: The rise of ‘boutique multiculturalism’

Boutique multiculturalism appears to encourage tolerance. It welcomes the arrival of legal immigrants as an enrichment. We see and hear interesting new habits, different food, ...
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Rainbow Poems

MEDIA RELEASE: InsideOut Hide Inappropriate Award-Winning Poem

InsideOut has tried to ‘hide’ poetry that won an award as part of Out on the Shelves because many people on social media said that ...
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transgender surgery, suicide risk

New study shows that gender transition surgeries increase the risk of suicide

While some in the U.S. health community continue to claim that gender transition procedures save lives, a new study is showing that the dangerous interventions ...
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Bathroom Bill - Poll

2:1 Support for NZ First’s ‘Bathroom’ Bill – Poll

A new poll has found majority support for the “Fair Access to Bathrooms Bill” which has been introduced as a private members bill to Parliament ...
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Opposition To Puberty Blockers and Gender Ideology For Children

SURVEY: Opposition To Puberty Blockers & Gender Ideology For Children

A new poll has found strong support for a ban on puberty blockers, and also a ban on the use of ‘gender affirmation’ chemical & ...
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The tragic history of trans ideology

Luke Tetley-Jones: The tragic history of trans ideology

To many today the idea that gender is nothing but a feeling and has nothing to do with biology is an incredibly foreign and confusing ...
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