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Politicians Move to Gag Debate During Election
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 3:51 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is rejecting the amendments being made to the Electoral Finance Act saying they are a gag on non-political groups who wish to raise important issues during an election year. More >>
PM Ignoring Strong Calls for Parental Notification
Friday, 3 December 2010, 10:34 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is disappointed by comments made by Prime Minister John Key on the Stuff.co.nz web chat this week that there would be no changes to the parental notification laws. More >>
DB Owns Yeah Right – Yeah Right
Thursday, 27 May 2010, 9:32 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is advising Bethlehem Community Church to continue advertising their ‘yeah right’ billboards despite legal pressure from DB Breweries. More >>
Smacking Review Exposed as Factually Wrong
Monday, 24 May 2010, 9:27 am | Family First New Zealand
Official documents obtained by Family First NZ show that the Smacking Review presented to the Prime Minister last year assuring parents that they would not be criminalized for light smacking was grossly misleading and left out material information. More >>
Support For Corporal Punishment In Schools
Saturday, 15 May 2010, 11:24 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that half of NZ’ers support corporal punishment in schools, and the events of the past week may have pushed that support higher. More >>
Marketing Of Smacking Law Better Spent On Abuse
Saturday, 6 March 2010, 11:11 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that Child Youth and Family (CYF) should save the cost of the 20,000 booklets ‘marketing’ the anti-smacking law and re-direct those resources to better targeting and monitoring at-risk families. More >>
Govt Must Tackle Issue of Child Sexualisation
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 9:35 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is calling on the government to tackle the issue of child sexualisation in our media and to tighten the regulations around advertising and broadcasting in order to better protect our children. More >>
$25k Reward Offered for Kahui Twins Conviction
Sunday, 14 February 2010, 1:10 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ has posted a reward of $25,000 for information or evidence which leads to a conviction of any person responsible for the murder of the Kahui twins. “The Kahui twins were murdered almost 4 years ago yet nobody has been accountable ... More >>
Time to Auction Off Prostitution Law
Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 4:50 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that a 19 year old student raising her university fees by ‘prostituting’ her virginity online is an example of the outcome of a flawed prostitution law and it should be immediately repealed. More >>
Latest Smacking Research Shows Benefits
Monday, 4 January 2010, 11:02 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is welcoming the latest research showing that light and reasonable smacking is beneficial to children in their development, and despite claims by government funded groups, kids aren’t damaged by its occasional use. More >>
2010: Protect Children From Sexualisation/ Abuse
Thursday, 31 December 2009, 2:53 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ has released its annual list of the top family issues to be tackled, and heading the list for 2010 is the protection of children from ‘corporate pedophilia’ and reducing the ‘raunch culture’ which is harming the self-esteem, body image ... More >>
Voters Not Confused by Referendum
Friday, 31 July 2009, 10:12 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that the record number of registered voters for the Referendum shows that there is no confusion about the Referendum question. “Sue Bradford has continued her attack on democracy and Referendums by insulting NZ’ers and saying ... More >>
Commission Smacking Research More Wasted Spending
Monday, 15 June 2009, 3:43 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is dismissing the latest research from the Families Commission as more wasted spending on information which tells us nothing new. More >>
Sex Education Begins At Home Not School
Monday, 15 June 2009, 10:00 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that Family Planning Association should butt out of primary and intermediate schools with their sex education programmes and should instead resource and empower parents to educate their children. More >>
Upper Hutt Community Slams Liberalised Brothel Law
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 9:48 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that the Upper Hutt community has given a resounding no to Upper Hutt City Council's attempts to liberalise prostitution laws. More >>
Huge Gender Imbalance in CYF
Friday, 20 February 2009, 11:01 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is stunned by revelations today by the Public Service Association that female CYF social workers outnumber male colleagues by 4 to 1, despite the males being paid on average 9.5% more. More >>
Marriage Steady, Civil Unions Ignored
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 11:25 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that the latest statistics on marriage and civil unions show that while the marriage rate has been reasonably consistent over the past decade, the demand for civil unions is negligible. More >>
Vaccine Drug Company Now Targeting Boys For Profit
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 11:59 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that calls for the cervical cancer vaccine to be given to boys as well as girls is based on shonky research, marketing pressure, and wrong spending priorities. More >>
Another Child Abuse Death – Same Factors
Monday, 29 December 2008, 10:11 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that the tragic child abuse death of 16-month old Northland boy Riley Osborne is more evidence of the key causes of child abuse which we are failing to acknowledge and tackle. More >>
School Hours Is A Family Issue
Tuesday, 23 December 2008, 2:16 pm | Family First New Zealand
“Education is based on quality not quantity, and a suggestion to extend the school hours is not in the best interests of children and young people,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ. More >>
