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Suicide Prevention Harmed by Euthanasia – Govt Report
Wednesday, 2 August 2017, 2:45 pm | Family First
A parliamentary inquiry into euthanasia has sounded a clear warning that changing the law on assisted suicide could be seen as normalising suicide, and an overwhelming 80% of submitters have rejected calls for euthanasia in this extensive and lengthy ... More >>
NZ First Paid Father Leave Policy Welcomed
Saturday, 8 July 2017, 6:02 pm | Family First
Family First NZ is welcoming the announcement by NZ First of their policy for paid paternal leave of two weeks rising to four weeks – and says that there is strong public support for paid father leave according to an independent poll on the issue. ... More >>
Family First Launches Website to Oppose Marijuana
Wednesday, 5 July 2017, 9:13 am | Family First
Family First NZ has launched a new website to inform families about the agenda to liberalise laws around marijuana and other drugs, and to help them speak up in the public debate. More >>
TOP Policy To Raise Drinking Age Applauded
Tuesday, 4 July 2017, 2:06 pm | Family First
Family First NZ is applauding The Opportunities Party policy on raising the drinking age, which echoes previous calls by the NZ Medical Association to raise the drinking age. “Health boards, health professionals, police, family groups, addiction experts, ... More >>
Parents Smack Because It’s Effective
Tuesday, 4 July 2017, 1:37 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says it is no surprise that the University of Auckland’s Growing up in New Zealand study has found that mothers - and parents in general - are still using smacking, and that research reveals that any forms of correction of children ... More >>
Dropping Abortion Rate Great News, Law Is Working
Monday, 19 June 2017, 11:04 am | Family First
Family First NZ is welcoming the drop in the number of abortions – the lowest rate in over 25 years - but is sounding a warning that these positive trends will be reversed if Labour, Greens and ACT party remove the safeguards in the current ... More >>
NZ First Correct To Revisit Smacking Law
Monday, 19 June 2017, 9:38 am | Family First
Family First NZ is welcoming continued comments by NZ First that they will revisit the highly controversial and hugely unpopular anti-smacking law, but will be clarifying with the party as to whether they will accept the previous referendum on the issue ... More >>
Council Told To Give Aucklanders Easter Sunday Off
Sunday, 11 June 2017, 2:55 pm | 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. “We reject any liberalisation of Easter trading laws and Anzac and Christmas days because workers ... More >>
Campaign Launched to Kill ACT’s Assisted Suicide Bill
Thursday, 8 June 2017, 1:00 pm | Family First
Family First NZ will immediately be launching a major campaign to oppose the ACT MP David Seymour’s Private Members Bill to legalise euthanasia. More >>
Families Suffer Because of Inaction of MPs
Friday, 2 June 2017, 2:48 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that Christchurch families will continue to suffer the fallout from street prostitution primarily because politicians are living in ‘la-la land’ when it comes to the concerns of families regarding the ongoing harms of street prostitution ... More >>
Less Sex Ed Actually Has Best Outcomes – UK Study
Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 11:35 am | Family First
Family First NZ is welcoming a UK study which found that teenage pregnancy rates have been reduced because of government cuts to spending on sex education and birth control for young women, and that the state’s efforts to teach adolescents about ... More >>
TOP’s Dope Policy – Charities As Drug Dealers
Friday, 19 May 2017, 9:15 am | Family First
Family First NZ is labelling The Opportunity Party’s policy on marijuana as flawed and harmful, especially the suggestion that non-profit charitable trusts can apply to control retail sales of cannabis. More >>
Family First To File Appeal Of Charities Board Decision
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 3:09 pm | Family First
Family First NZ has instructed its lawyer to file an immediate Notice of Appeal against the Charities Board after receiving notification of the Board’s intention to deregister Family First NZ. More >>
Charities Board Still Plans To Censor Family First
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 9:38 pm | Family First
Family First NZ has been told by media that the government’s Charities Board still wants to deregister us despite the board being rebuked in an earlier decision in the Wellington High Court in 2015 where they were told that “…. Members of the ... More >>
Promotion & Enabling of Suicide Always A Crime
Friday, 12 May 2017, 11:22 am | Family First
Family First NZ says that it is disturbing that a group is campaigning for a woman charged with importing a drug linked to euthanasia and charged with assisting suicide. More >>
Significant Support For Porn Safeguards - Poll
Sunday, 30 April 2017, 9:08 pm | Family First
A nationwide poll has found high levels of concern around the effects of online pornography and its link to sexual violence, and the easy access that young people have to offensive material, and significant support for action from government and internet providers ... More >>
Police Homicide Report Fails To Identify Risk To Children
Wednesday, 26 April 2017, 12:14 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that a Police report suggesting that almost one in ten homicide victims are killed by their parent or a parent's live-in partner fails to sufficiently analyse the data to determine the real risk to children because the definition of ... More >>
AUT Students Object To ‘Irresponsible' Toilet Policy
Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 9:18 am | Family First
The AskMeFirst campaign which was launched in February has released its second YouTube video highlighting the decision of Auckland University of Technology (AUT) to reassign over 165 toilets to be All-Gender toilets – a decision labelled by a group of current ... More >>
Family Group to Appeal Sentence to Solicitor General
Tuesday, 11 April 2017, 12:36 pm | Family First
Family First NZ will be writing to the Solicitor General to ask them to appeal the weak and dangerous sentence handed to Tamehana Huata for the manslaughter of two-year-old Matiu Wereta.. More >>
22,334-Signature Petition Asking For Porn Harm Enquiry
Tuesday, 11 April 2017, 12:16 pm | Family First
A petition calling on an expert panel to investigate the public health effects and societal harms of pornography will be presented to Parliament tomorrow (Wednesday). The petition has received 22,334 written signatures in just two months and will be ... More >>
