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.
World’s Longest Married Couple In New Zealand
Media Release 13 February 2020 NZ’s longest married couple is believed to be also the world’s longest married couple. “New Zealand couple JERAM & GANGA ...
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Oranga Tamariki Report – Normalise Adolescent Sex & Teen Parenting
Media Release 11 February 2020 A disturbing report on teen parenting recently released by Oranga Tamariki has called for adults to “normalise adolescent sex, contraception, ...
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Physical Restraint Rules Place All Children At Risk
Media Release 7 February 2020 Ministry of Education data gained under the Official Information Act show that almost 6,000 reports of physical restraint have had ...
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New Parent Resource Guide on Transgender Trend
Family First NZ has published a new resource “Responding To The Transgender Issue – Parent Resource Guide” designed to educate and assist parents as their ...
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Cannabis Briefing – with former NY Times reporter Alex Berenson
If you are a youthworker, church leader, educator, counsellor, or community leader, we want to invite you – and your colleagues – to a special ...
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Smacking Law Has Caused Decline In Discipline – Poll
Media Release 15 January 2020 A nationwide poll has found that half of New Zealanders believe that the 2007 anti-smacking law has caused a decline ...
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Disturbing Trend Of More Babies in Daycare For Longer
Media Release 10 January 2020 Family First says that government statistics reveal that there continues to be a significant increase in the numbers of babies ...
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Evidence Shows Legalising Cannabis Is Social Injustice
Media Release 8 January 2020 As pro-cannabis lobbyists and politicians in New Zealand argue that marijuana legalisation will increase social justice, disparities among use and ...
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Celebrants Still Being Rejected Despite Political Assurances
Media Release 3 January 2020 Family First NZ says that people applying to be marriage celebrants continue to have their applications rejected if they do ...
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Drug Testing Gives False Hope & Dangerous Message
Media Release 29 December 2019 Family First NZ says that lobbying to allow drug use and drug testing at music festivals is flawed and dangerous, ...
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Cannabis Use Continues To Rise in States Where Legal
Media Release 20 December 2019 The latest data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the most authoritative study on drug use conducted ...
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Labour MP Bill Rejects Women With Post-Abortion Grief
Media Release 11 December 2019 A Labour MP’s private members bill which allowed for bereavement leave for a miscarriage has been withdrawn and resubmitted, in ...
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A Flawed Reefer-endum
The government has released its proposed law for legalising cannabis for recreational use (i.e. the right to get high). Voters will be asked: “Do you support ...
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Extended Daycare Ignores Real Needs of Children
Media Release 21 November 2019 Family First says that the trend to extend daycare times, and its role to be virtually de facto parents, is ...
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Public & Work WiFi Should Block Porn
Media Release 12 November 2019 Family First New Zealand has proposed a number of bills to the government regarding the access to pornography in both ...
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Overwhelming Rejection Of Abortion Bill – Analysis
Media Release 4 November 2019 More than 90% of the submissions on the Abortion Legislation Bill have rejected the proposed decriminalisation of abortion, with just ...
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Voters Will Reject Euthanasia When Proposed Law Understood
Media Release 24 October 2019 Family First NZ says that the referendum on assisted suicide will be defeated by voters once they understand the law ...
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Troubled Portugal Bad Example For Drug Advocates in NZ
Media Release 18 October 2019 Portugal has been painted by pro-cannabis legalisation groups as a model to follow. Yet just last month, the mayor of ...
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Family First In Court Of Appeal To Fight Deregistration
Media Release 17 October 2019 Family First’s continued fight against attempts by the government’s Charities Registration Board to deregister them is set to continue in ...
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95% Of Submitters Being Muzzled On Abortion
Media Release 9 October 2019 Family First NZ says that the Select Committee considering radical changes to our abortion laws has admitted that it’s muzzling ...
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March for Life 2019
Save the Date: Come and March For Life in Wellington 7 December Organisers of New Zealand’s National March for Life are urging all people of ...
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Abortion Debate Being Shut Down By Select Committee
Media Release 29 September 2019 Family First NZ says that a significant number of submitters to the Abortion Legislation Bill who want to make an ...
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Abortion Liberalisation Debate Must Not Be Rushed
Media Release 25 September 2019 Family First NZ is welcoming news that there has been a strong response to the Abortion Legislation Bill with more ...
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Latest Colorado Report Shows Ongoing Disaster of Marijuana
Media Release 19 September 2019 Family First NZ says that a new Colorado report compiled by the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area finds marijuana-positive traffic ...
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Vaping Epidemic Is Big Dream For Big Marijuana
Media Release 19 September 2019 Family First NZ says that the health concerns and costs around vaping will be far greater if cannabis is legalised. ...
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‘Unplanned’ Movie Lands in NZ – Amidst Abortion Debate
Media Release 16 September 2019 The ‘Unplanned’ movie is here and Family First has secured one of the first screenings in New Zealand Monday 16th. ...
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1 in 6 mothers experience ‘relationship transitions’ before child is 5
Media Release 15 September 2019 Family First Comment: “17.3% of mothers were categorised as having experienced 1-4 relationship transitions from pregnancy to the 4.5-year interview… almost ...
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Ex-Abortionist’s Testimony Impacts Abortion Debate
Media Release 9 September 2019 An 17-minute interview with a New Zealand ex-abortionist has had over 123,000 views in a fortnight, and an explanation of ...
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The Case For NO In The 2020 Referendum on Cannabis
Media Release 4 Sep 2019 In response to the promotion of cannabis legalisation by Helen Clark, Family First is continuing to promote its 24-page BRIEFING ...
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Fewer Men Celebrate Father’s Day
Media Release 31 August 2019 ‘Families: Ever Fewer, or No Children: How Worried Should We Be?’ – a new report just released by Family First ...
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TVNZ Rebuked For Scary Adult Promo During Kids Movie
Media Release 30 August 2019 Family First NZ is welcoming a decision by the Broadcasting Standards Authority to uphold a complaint that a promo for ...
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Lunch In Schools Feeds The Problem, Ignores Real Issue
Media Release 29 August 2019 Family First NZ says that lunch in schools programmes will simply exacerbate the problem, provide a short term bandage, but ...
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Pros and Cons Of “All-Time Low” Fertility Rate – Report
Media Release 30 August 2019 New Zealand’s total fertility rate has reached an all-time low, with an average of 1.71 children per woman in New ...
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Tackling Harms of Pornography Should Be High Priority
Media Release 26 August 2019 Family First NZ is welcoming the Government’s intention to tackle the harms of pornography, and are also continuing to call ...
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Raising Drinking Age Just One Tool To Tackle Harm
Media Release 26 August 2019 Family First NZ is supporting a call by the Police to raise the drinking age, which echoes previous calls by ...
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Support for Recreational Dope Going ‘Up in Smoke’
Media Release 17 August 2019 Family First NZ is welcoming yet another poll showing plummeting support for legalising cannabis in New Zealand. The Horizon Research ...
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Hospitalisation For Marijuana Continues To Increase
Media Release 14 August 2019 More damning statistics of marijuana hospitalisations in New Zealand are further proof that we should go nowhere legalising cannabis. Family ...
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Make A Submission Against the Abortion Bill
Parliament has just voted the ‘Abortion Legislation Bill’ through its first reading. It is now being considered by a special Select Committee formed just for ...
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HOW THEY VOTED: Who Voted to Protect the Unborn Child (1st Reading)
August 2019 It was a dark and shameful day today as 94 members of Parliament voted for a radical bill that attempts to remove any legal ...
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Pregnant Teens Can Self-Refer For Abortions With No Safeguards
Media Release 7 August 2019 Family First NZ says that the proposed abortion law reforms will result in the ability of teenagers to self-refer for ...
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Late Term Abortions Will Increase With Abortion Reform
Media Release 7 August 2019 Family First NZ says that proposed abortion law reform will lead to more late term abortions, and radical abortion groups ...
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Radical Abortion Law Reform Is Deeply Anti-Human Rights
Media Release 4 August 2019 Family First NZ is shocked and dismayed with the Government’s coming release tomorrow of attempts to radically liberalise abortion laws, ...
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Abortion Law Reform Deeply Flawed & Anti Human Rights
Media Release 23 July 2019 Family First NZ is shocked and dismayed with the Government’s and the Prime Minister’s obsession with life and death issues, ...
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Petition Fights For Human Rights Of Unborn Children
Media Release 23 July 2019 A petition of more than 13,000 New Zealanders opposing the Government’s proposed liberalisation of abortion laws is being presented to ...
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National Correct to Oppose Decriminalisation of All Drugs
Media Release 8 July 2019 Family First NZ is welcoming National’s opposition to the decriminalisation of all drugs. The statements in the Select Committee report ...
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