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Anti-Smacking Law On Coalition Table
Thursday, 28 September 2017, 10:18 am | Family First
Family First NZ says that fixing the anti-smacking law will be on the coalition negotiation table, based on statements made by Winston Peters and NZ First before the election. More >>
Family First Blocks Deregistration By Charities Board
Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 11:51 am | Family First
Family First NZ has lodged an appeal with the Wellington High Court regarding the Charities Board’s second attempt to deregister the charity. Family First has also successfully applied for an order that the Board be restrained from deregistering ... More >>
Rights of Christchurch Families Above Rights of Sex Industry
Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 11:48 am | Family First
Family First NZ is accusing politicians of turning a blind eye to the harmful effects of prostitution to families, and is calling for the rights of families in Christchurch to take precedence over the prostitution industry. More >>
You Don’t Discourage Suicide by Assisting Suicide
Monday, 11 September 2017, 1:01 pm | Family First
Family First NZ is warning that there is a ‘social contagion’ aspect to suicide – assisted or non-assisted – and that we need more discussion about suicide prevention, not euthanasia. The warning is being reiterated after the disagreement between National’s ... More >>
Jacinda’s Position on Abortion Law Still Unclear For Voters
Monday, 11 September 2017, 11:20 am | Family First
Family First NZ is still calling on specifics of what Labour leader Jacinda Ardern is proposing for New Zealand’s abortion laws, and is concerned that she misunderstands the law as it stands. More >>
Labour Needs to Disclose their Specific Abortion Policy
Friday, 8 September 2017, 10:00 am | Family First
Family First NZ is calling on the Labour party to disclose to voters and concerned disability groups like Saving Downs the exact details of what they’re proposing around the liberalisation of abortion. More >>
Half of Kiwis Say Nope To Dope
Tuesday, 5 September 2017, 4:33 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that the Vote Compass survey run by TVNZ rebuts the spurious and vested interest claims made by NORML and the Drug Foundation that NZ’ers want marijuana laws liberalised. An independent 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll a month ago ... More >>
Current Law Reflects that Abortion Affects Two Lives
Tuesday, 5 September 2017, 10:06 am | Family First
Family First NZ is rejecting Labour leader Jacinda Ardern’s call for the decriminalisation of abortion and says that the existing safeguards are there to protect both women and children. More >>
National’s Paid Parental Leave Policy Welcomed
Tuesday, 29 August 2017, 12:30 pm | Family First
Family First NZ is welcoming the announcement by National of their policy to extend paid parental leave to 22 weeks with flexibility for paid father leave – but says that parents shouldn’t have to wait until 2019 for this crucial support. More >>
Muzzling Of Charities Now Extends To Auckland University
Tuesday, 29 August 2017, 12:04 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that the Auckland University Students Association (AUSA) disaffiliating the student club Prolife Auckland from the AUSA is a disturbing continuation of attempts by both the State and now tertiary institutions to shut down free speech, debate ... More >>
Auckland’s Easter Trading Decision A Win For Families
Thursday, 24 August 2017, 11:03 am | Family First
Family First NZ is welcoming Auckland Council’s decision to give Aucklanders the day off on Easter Sunday, saying that it will benefit families, and tourists will cope. More >>
Council Told To Give Aucklanders Easter Sunday Off
Thursday, 24 August 2017, 8:56 am | Family First
Family First NZ is telling Auckland Council to give Aucklanders the day off on Easter Sunday, that it will benefit families, and that tourists will cope. More >>
“Charities Board Should Be Removed From Public Service” - PM
Wednesday, 23 August 2017, 3:56 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that the Prime Minister Bill English at their recent Forum on the Family in July has challenged the basis of the Charities Board’s intent to deregister Family First. More >>
Family First To Charities Board – See You Back In Court
Monday, 21 August 2017, 1:55 pm | Family First
Family First NZ has instructed its lawyer to file an immediate Notice of Appeal in the Wellington High Court against the Charities Board’s formal decision to deregister Family First NZ. More >>
MPs Want Birth Certificates Based on Feelings, Not Biology
Saturday, 19 August 2017, 12:27 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that politicians have deemed birth certificates meaningless as a result of a decision by the Government Administration select committee to recommend that birth certificates be based on the choice of the person. “By choosing your ... More >>
Dope Use Warrants Both Criminal & Health Approach
Friday, 18 August 2017, 9:08 am | Family First
Family First NZ says that Ministry of Justice statistics debunk concerns expressed by Labour leader Jacinda Ardern, and claims by supporters of marijuana, that hundreds of people are being locked up for petty drug offences each year, and that the current ... More >>
‘Value Your Vote’ Election Resource Launched
Sunday, 13 August 2017, 9:17 pm | Family First
For the fourth successive election, Family First NZ has launched their Value Your Vote resource to inform voters leading up to the September election. “ Value Your Vote records how existing MP’s have voted over the past five terms on controversial ... More >>
Porn Harm Inquiry Deferred to Next Parliament
Thursday, 10 August 2017, 8:43 am | Family First
A petition calling on an expert panel to investigate the public health effects and societal harms of pornography and which received 22,334 written signatures in just two months has been deferred to the next Parliament by the Government Administration ... More >>
80% Opposition to Euthanasia An International Trend
Thursday, 3 August 2017, 9:37 am | Family First
Family First NZ says that the overwhelming 80% opposition to assisted suicide communicated to the Inquiry by the Health Select Committee is part of the reason why most overseas jurisdictions have also rightly rejected euthanasia laws. More >>
Elephant Still In The Room 10 Years On From Nia Glassie
Thursday, 3 August 2017, 8:53 am | Family First
Family First NZ says that 10 years on from the horrific death of little Nia Glassie which shocked the nation (3 August 2007), there has been little change or improvement in child abuse statistics because we haven’t tackled the ‘elephant in the room’ ... More >>
