Media Release 1 July 2012 Family First NZ is calling for the government to withdraw funding of Family Planning and Rainbow Youth’s sex education programmes, resources and websites which fail to tell the full facts and which compromise the concerns…
NZ Herald 30 June 2012 Proposals being considered by the Anglican Church could see gay marriage services carried out in churches by gay priests. Bishops and priests are to vote on proposals covering the blessing of same-sex civil unions, the…
Gays face surrogacy ban as LNP pushes civil union changes Brisbane Times 22 June 2012 The Queensland government will ban single people and same-sex couples from having a child through surrogacy, in a bombshell move announced during a fiery overnight…
Support grows for gay adoption NZ Herald 30 June 2012 Nearly two-thirds of New Zealanders support giving gay couples the right to adopt children. A Herald-DigiPoll showed that 61.2 per cent of the public felt adoption law should be changed…
NZ Herald 30 June 2012 The former boss of the industry association representing pokie trusts says the system is corrupt and needs total reform. Former Community Gaming Association executive director Francis Wevers said the incentives to take advantage were too…
Sunday Star Times 1 July 2012 New Zealand’s child abuse record is brutally laid bare in one of the most comprehensive releases of Government data on the nation’s bruised and broken children. There are 22,000 substantiated child abuse cases each…
3 News 28 June 2012 The retail workers union is praising Parliament for defeating a bill which would have allowed shops in MP Jacqui Dean’s Waitaki electorate to open on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The bill went down 70-49…
NZ Herald 28 June 2012 Permitting mercy-killing of people with terminal illnesses would inevitably lead to the killing of newborns with disabilities and the elderly, an anti-euthanasia campaigner says. The head of the Canada-based Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Alex Schadenberg, will…
Telegraph 22 June 2012 A newlywed couple have being bombarded with internet hate mail after posing on the steps of 10 Downing Street to hand in a 550,000-signature petition against gay marriage. Rhys and Esther Curnow, from Newcastle, received scores…
Chief Rabbi voices opposition to gay marriage Telegraph 25 June 2012 Changing the law to allow same-sex marriage would undermine a “sacred institution” recognized since “time immemorial”, according to the Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks. In his only public statement on…
