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.
Police pay up for acting to ‘cancel’ Christian preacher
WND 25 June 2021 Family First Comment: This is how ‘hate speech’ laws work… And fail. “While McConnell was preaching, passersby heckled him with questions about ...
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Cannabis 4x more potent – UN report
COVID pandemic fuelling major increase in drug use worldwide: UN report UN News 24 June 2021 Family First Comment: “Cannabis potency has quadrupled in some parts ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Views On Marriage & Gender Aren’t ‘Hate Speech’ – Poll
Media Release 27 June 2021 As the Government considers hate speech laws, a poll released in January found that just one in ten New Zealanders ...
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Outcry over South Africa’s multiple husbands proposal
BBC News 27 June 2021 Family First Comment: As predicted. It’s called ‘marriage equality’. “South Africa has one of the world’s most liberal constitutions, embracing same-sex ...
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Cannabis use may be associated with suicidality in young adults
National Institute on Drug Abuse 22 June 2021 Family First Comment: More proof that NZ dodged a bullet by voting NO…. “An analysis of survey data ...
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NZ should adopt Scottish strategy to reduce alcohol harm
Stuff co.nz 22 June 2021 – Dr Alistair Humphrey is chair of the New Zealand Medical Association Family First Comment: “We urgently need to focus ...
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Sorry Harvard, fathers still matter — including Black fathers
USA Today 17 June 2021 Family First Comment: It was Fathers Day in the US last Sunday. This excellent op-ed pushes back on the left revisionist ...
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Online child sexual abuse growth stretches NZ authorities
Child sexual abuse imagery: Online growth stretches NZ investigator NZ Herald 21 June 2021 Family First Comment: Shocking…. “As the problem has grown in scale and ...
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Women sue Pornhub
Dozens of women sue Pornhub, accusing company of profiting from non-consensual sexual content NewsHub 18 June 2021 Family First Comment: Excellent. Time to hold the destructive ...
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Ad: Isn’t it Time the Law Reflects the Science?
Learn more about the Dobbs v. Jackson case: https://www.sba-list.org/scotus Paid for by Susan B. Anthony List Education Fund
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US Supreme Court sides with Catholic foster agency
Supreme Court sides with Catholic foster agency that excludes same-sex couples in 9-0 ruling Fox News 17 June 2021 Family First Comment: Stunning decision. 9-0. Even ...
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Doco on P ignored ‘true horror of the drug’
More FM’s Jay-Jay Feeney says Patrick Gower: On P ignored ‘the true horror of the drug’ Stuff co.nz 17 June 2021 Family First Comment: Well said ...
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Billions in black-market weed still selling in Illinois 18 months after marijuana legalized
Chicago Sun Times 14 June 2021 Family First Comment: Illinois experiencing the same as California. A thriving black market. And increasing drug use. Who would have ...
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California offers $100 million to rescue its struggling legal marijuana industry
Los Angeles Times 14 June 2021 Family First Comment: All is not well with legalised cannabis (as expected). The black market continues…. “The California Legislature on ...
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Māori, disabled, sexually diverse more likely to be victims of crime
TVNZ One News 16 June 2021 Key facts • Nearly a third of all adults became victims of crime last year • Only a quarter ...
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Perth twins Anna and Lucy DeCinque get engaged to same man
NZ Herald 14 June 2021 Family First Comment: But but but…. they assured us that it was never about ‘group’ marriage! “As Australia doesn’t allow three ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Little Support For Decriminalising All Drugs – Poll
Media Release 15 June 2021 A new poll has found that there is very little support for the decriminalisation of all drugs such as P ...
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Oxfam training guide blames privileged white women root causes
The Telegraph 9 June 2021 Family First Comment: This is how woke destroys their own because none of their argument is logical….. “The training manual was ...
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Coercive treatment for mental illness reform ‘long overdue’
NZ Herald 14 June 2021 Family First Comment: Perhaps the government should focus on its own coercive therapy which is happening in state-run services – rather ...
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Woman died after taking MDMA at rave at Auckland’s Bastion Point
Stuff co.nz 13 June 2021 Family First Comment: “anything over 1mg could potentially be fatal, but 2mg/l fell “within the range associated with both recreational use ...
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Homeless women more likely to be younger, Māori and sole parents – study
NewsHub 13 June 2021 A new study has found women who are homeless earn significantly less income and rely more on government support than men ...
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Athletes’ biological advantages cannot be countered by testosterone restrictions
Stuff co.nz 12 June 2021 – Steve Stannard Family First Comment: Here’s a simple biology lesson about why sports should remain girls-only and boys-only (as ...
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Free lunch programme – schools’ plea for changes fall on deaf ears
NZ Herald 8 June 2021 – Kate MacNamara Family First Comment: This is how socialism and state control works. Do it our way. We’re not interested ...
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Former BLM Leader says Organisation Hurts Families
Minnesota Family Council 3 June 2021 Family First Comment: “A year and a half after he founded the Saint Paul chapter of Black Lives Matter, Turner ...
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Outrage over children as young as 9 locked up alone for days in mental health hospitals
Stuff co.nz 5 June 2021 – CECILE MEIER Family First Comment: Perhaps the politicians should focus on problems (like excess incarceration of children) that DO exist, ...
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MDMA soaring in popularity in New Zealand, especially in schools
NewsHub 6 June 2021 Family First Comment: No surprises when some politicians and drug advocates are trying to normalise drug use in general… “ “I think we’re ...
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Cannabis has a carbon problem
High Country News 31 May 2021 Family First Comment: Don’t tell the Greens because it would wreck their campaigning, but indoor pot-growing gobbles up huge amounts ...
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State broadcaster RNZ does ‘sales pitch’ on polygamy / polyamory
Centrepoint: Neither free nor loving Radio NZ News 31 May 2021 Family First Comment: Our state broadcaster uses the recent TV documentary on Centrepoint to explain ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Political Support For Porn Age-Verification in Australia
Media Release 3 June 2021 Family First NZ is welcoming the support by the Australian Federal Government to calls for age verification to protect children ...
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60 Minutes Shines a Light on Dangerous Cross-Sex Hormones
Minnesota Family Council 28 May 2021 Family First Comment: “I went for two appointments and after the second one I had my letter to go get ...
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Pot commercialization tied to self-harm by younger men, study suggests
Scope Stanford Medicine 16 April 2021 Family First Comment: More evidence that NZ made the right decision last year… “States that legalize recreational marijuana use, and ...
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FLASHBACK 2007: Debating Cindy Kiro on the anti-smacking law
In 2007 just before the anti-smacking law was rammed through parliament despite significant public opposition – and only passing because John Key ‘whipped’ all National ...
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I was the fastest girl. But transgender athletes made it unfair
USA Today February 2020 Family First Comment: I’ve lost four women’s state championship titles, two all-New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to ...
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Transgender Surgery Does Not Improve Mental Health
PJ Media 11 August 2020 Last year, a groundbreaking study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) claimed to prove that transgender surgery improves the mental ...
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How Does Porn Affect Teenagers?
John Foubert May 2021 Initial studies show that the adolescent brain is more sensitive to sexually explicit material than adult brains (Brown & Wisco, 2019). ...
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Calls for halt on new liquor stores after rising assaults in cities
Radio NZ News 25 May 2021 Family First Comment: How’s that ‘regulation’ and ‘control’ going? Not too good eh. “There’s so much injury that’s happening in ...
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Gaping holes in law covering info for donor-conceived people
Stuff co.nz 25 May 2021 From the mid-1970s through 2004, an unknown number of people were created through anonymous donor conception in New Zealand. In ...
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Any amount of alcohol can harm the brain, study suggests
Fox News 20 May 2021 Family First Comment: “No safe dose of alcohol for the brain was found. Moderate consumption is associated with more widespread adverse ...
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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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