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.
UK – Government digging itself deep into trouble over conversion therapy
Peter Lynas is the Director of the Evangelical Alliance. The Government has got itself into a pickle on conversion therapy. It has promised to end
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Canada – politicians fuming over Cannabis Act enforcement gaps
Orillia News 28 April 2021 Family First Comment: Not working so well in Canada, is it. “councillors asked the federal agency to consider amending the rules
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Jacinda’s wedding sends an important societal message
Bob McCoskrie – National Director, Family First NZ In January 2018, Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy with boyfriend Clarke Gayford outside their Auckland home to
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Bernard Moran: How the “Born Alive” rule stymies legal protection of preborn babies
I guess many people wonder why Parliament cannot pass a law recognising a preborn baby as a unique human person. The “Born Alive” rule stands
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MEDIA RELEASE: Plummeting Fertility Rate Requires Urgent Debate
Media Release 19 May 2021 New Zealand’s fertility rate has reached an all-time low, with an average of 1.60 births per woman in the year
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New Study: Alcohol Ads Commonly Appeal to Minors
Movendi 23 April 2021 Family First Comment: “The association between positive reactions to the adverts and being susceptible to [consume alcohol] among underage adolescents who have
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US Supreme Court takes up major challenge to abortion rights
NewsHub 18 May 2021 Family First Comment: Superb! “In the Roe v. Wade decision, subsequently reaffirmed in 1992, the court said that states could not ban
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When cancel culture targets even its own on the left
America Has Forgotten How to Forgive The Atlantic 20 March 2021 Family First Comment: “In March, the publisher of Teen Vogue announced that Alexi McCammond, a 27-year-old former reporter
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MEDIA RELEASE: Calls Build For Ban On Puberty Blockers For Teens
Media Release 11 May 2021 Medical professionals and groups are sounding growing international concern around the use of puberty blockers to treat young people with
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MEDIA RELEASE: Paper Plus and Mighty Ape Kowtow to Cancel Culture
Media Release 8 May 2021 Family First NZ says that book retailers are kowtowing to gender activists rather than allowing a debate on the best
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MEDIA RELEASE: Schools Rightly Rejecting Govt’s Sex Ed
Media Release 8 May 2021 Family First says it is not surprised that less than 15% of schools are using Government funded programmes on sexual
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MEDIA RELEASE: Medicinal Marijuana Regime: Cautious But Compassionate
Media Release 6 May 2021 “Family First NZ supports a cautious and researched approach around medicinal marijuana, but also supports a compassionate response to those
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Decriminalising Drugs – Lessons from Portugal (2021)
What lessons can we learn from a report about Portugal’s decriminalisation of drugs.
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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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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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Visa & Mastercard Reject Profits From Pornhub
Media Release 11 December 2020 Family First NZ is stoked with a decision by Visa and Mastercard to cut ties with Pornhub following a report
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Drug Testing Will Give False Hope & Dangerous Message
Media Release 1 Dec 2020 Family First NZ says that allowing drug use and drug testing is flawed and dangerous, and is primarily being used
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Illegality of cannabis keeps use low – Ministry of Health
Latest data from the Ministry of Health shows that past 12 month use of cannabis has remained at just 14.9%. In contrast, 4 in 5
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NZ Fertility Rate Continues To Plummet
Media Release 18 November 2020 New Zealand’s total fertility rate has reached an all-time low, with an average of 1.63 children per woman in New
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Mike’s Minute: Cannabis supporters should be gracious in defeat
NewsTalk ZB 9 November 2020 I was kind of hoping when we got the final cannabis and euthanasia result on Friday we might not get
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Cannabis referendum: Where support for legalisation was highest
NewsHub 7 November 2020 Data shows support for legalising cannabis was highest in Wellington, with 72 percent of voters casting their ballots in Wellington Central
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Special votes fail to swing cannabis referendum, weed won't be legalised in New Zealand
NewsHub 6 November 2020 New Zealand has voted not to legalise recreational cannabis, final referendum results show – despite special votes narrowing the margin of
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Why the NO campaign won (against all the odds)
Despite the YES campaign starting the debate with a 36-point lead two years ago (according to Horizon Polling), the SayNopetoDope campaign won the cannabis debate
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“The NZ cannabis referendum prove it’s the simple messages that cut through”
Cannabiz.com 4 November 2020 There’s a brilliant book about politics in the age of Donald Trump and Twitter called Yes We (Still) Can by Dan
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Mike’s Minute: We made the right call on cannabis
NewsTalk ZB 2 November 2020 Family First Comment: Well said, Mike…. “The Drug Foundation, an apolitical organisation, should be ashamed of itself, and it’s just as
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