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.
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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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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