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Queenstown Council Fining Wicked Campers
Thursday, 7 April 2016, 1:10 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is welcoming the decision by the Queenstown District Council to fine Wicked Campers $300 when their vehicle displays offensive slogans. More >>
Councils Join Efforts To Muzzle Wicked Campers
Thursday, 10 March 2016, 10:32 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is welcoming moves by both Whangarei District Council and now the Queenstown Lakes District Council to threaten Wicked Campers with prosecution and fines for offensive slogans on their campervans. Family First launched a campaign ... More >>
MPs Told To Reject Easter Trading Proposal
Thursday, 3 March 2016, 9:41 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ will tell politicians today that the proposed changes to Easter trading laws will do nothing to solve the perceived problems, will be a ‘hospital pass’ to local councils, that the National party should allow a conscience vote on the ... More >>
Parent Applauded for Rejecting Sex Ed Programme
Thursday, 19 November 2015, 11:49 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that a mother who withdrew her 9-year-old from a sex ed class run by Family Planning should be applauded, and that many more parents would take the same action if they were aware of what is being taught through programmes such ... More >>
Pedophiles’ Register Will Protect Families
Wednesday, 18 November 2015, 3:03 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ has made a Submission today to the Select Committee considering the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Register) Bill , and says that a Register will not only protect the public but will also protect child sex offenders from themselves, ... More >>
National MPs Forced to Vote Against Conscience
Thursday, 5 November 2015, 11:01 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is concerned that National party politicians are being ‘whipped’ on moral issues that have traditionally been conscience votes – and this has been confirmed with the latest vote on Easter trading. Family First has released a list ... More >>
Govt Undervalues Parenting With Veto Threat
Thursday, 17 September 2015, 8:13 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is calling on the government to value parenting and the important role of mothers and fathers during the early years of our children and not threaten a veto on the paid parental leave bill. More >>
Govt Attacks Family Time With Liberal Easter Laws
Tuesday, 25 August 2015, 8:12 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is slamming the government for its intention to liberalise Easter trading laws and questions how long before Christmas day and Anzac day are also liberalised. More >>
1 in 3 Victims of Family Violence Are Male
Saturday, 25 July 2015, 8:53 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that research in association with the Department of Internal Affairs, Alcohol and Drug Association of New Zealand and the Canterbury Men’s Centre has found that 38% of recent victims of family violence in the Canterbury region ... More >>
Parents & Teens Want Parental Notification
Wednesday, 3 June 2015, 11:09 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is calling on politicians to reflect the concerns and wishes of parents and also teenagers, and ensure that young pregnant girls in a crisis situation receive the family support they deserve and need. More >>
Smaller Convention Centre Should Mean Less Pokies
Tuesday, 26 May 2015, 1:06 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that with the downsizing of the SkyCity Convention Centre, the legislative concession for allowing an increased number of pokie machines should be significantly reduced, if not scrapped. “As we said from the outset, this deal ... More >>
Medicinal Marijuana Should Be Researched, Not Legalised
Friday, 8 May 2015, 9:20 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that medicinal marijuana should not be legalised, but is calling for further research into the components of the marijuana plant for delivery via non-smoked forms. More >>
Where Do Green Party Stand on Three-Way Marriage?
Monday, 4 May 2015, 9:56 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is calling on the Green Party to declare their policy on three-way marriages and polygamy in light of the UK Green Party leader declaring that they are open to consultation on legalising ‘marriages’ involving three or more people. ... More >>
Families Support Review of Teen Abortion Law
Sunday, 26 April 2015, 12:16 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is supporting calls for a review of the parental notification laws for teen abortions and agrees that young pregnant teens should have the support of their parents, not have their parents alienated from the process. More >>
Litigious Approach to School Discipline Worrying Trend
Monday, 30 March 2015, 8:34 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First is warning that a litigious approach to school disciplinary decisions will undermine the authority and special character of individual schools and has the potential to send some schools bankrupt. The comments come in response to two ... More >>
Children Concerned About Sex, Violence in Media
Monday, 30 March 2015, 8:27 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that the Children’s Media Use Study by NZ on Air and the BSA is sounding alarm bells about the levels of violence and sexual content being viewed by children 9-14 years old, and the concerns of the children themselves and also ... More >>
Dying with Dignity Lies In Love and Best Palliative Care
Saturday, 21 March 2015, 10:48 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that the heartbreaking situation that Lecretia Seales faces should not be solved in the courtroom or by a change in law, but through the guarantee of the best palliative care that the country can offer her and others in a similar ... More >>
Parents Right to Question HPV Vaccine
Monday, 16 March 2015, 4:46 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that contrary to claims that ‘well-off Pakeha girls’ are rejecting the HPV vaccine, parents of all racial groups in New Zealand are rightly rejecting the pressure to have their children vaccinated for an infection which isn’t ... More >>
Report Calls For Screen Time Guidelines for Children
Monday, 9 February 2015, 9:52 am | Family First New Zealand
A report on the increasing use of screen time for children is critical of government agencies for a lack of guidelines to families, and says that the Ministry of Health should consider screen time as a personal health and well-being issue to be formally ... More >>
Boycott ‘50 Shades’ Movie, Donate to Victims Instead
Sunday, 8 February 2015, 10:41 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is calling on families to boycott the upcoming “ Fifty Shades of Grey ” movie and instead donate the admission fee to a local women’s refuge. They are also encouraging families to use the release of the movie as an opportunity ... More >>
