The Australian 25 February 2021 – Claire Lehmann Family First Comment: Superb article from The Australian (behind a paywall unfortunately), but here’s a few key bits (some terminology may offend!): “….midwives at two National Health Service hospitals in Britain — Brighton…
Bob McCoskrie A new article has appeared the The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific this week. Entitled New Zealand’s failed cannabis legalization referendum – implications for cannabis policy reform, it’s by Benedikt Fischer (a long-standing campaigner for legalisation) and…
Bob McCoskrie An excellent commentary in The Conversation – “NZ’s smoking rates dropped dramatically thanks to a hard-hitting campaign. Could we do the same to bring emissions down?” Good to see that some researchers at Otago University still aspire for…
Bob McCoskrie So the ‘cancel culture’ of the left rages on. This time it’s the superb book by Ryan T. Anderson on the transgender movement – “When Harry Became Sally – Responding to the Transgender Moment.” https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/21/amazon-removes-book-critiquing-transgender-movement/ The left cannot…
In yet another media item completely supportive of a ban on ‘conversion therapy’ (which is yet to be specifically defined), the author of the opinion piece in the Dominion Post at the weekend “Gay conversion therapy is harmful, hateful, and…
Democracy Project 23 February 2021 Family First Comment: This is unique. Someone in the media who has actually thought through the issue and examined the evidence… “Banning gay conversion therapy obviously presents its own problems — including infringing upon freedom of…
NewsTalk ZB 18 February 2021 Family First Comment: Go Kate 🙂 “Will we see this reported here in NZ? No of course not, it doesn’t fit the pro-cannabis agenda so prevalent here in mainstream media. Which is a shame, because when…
PR NewsWire 15 February 2021 Family First Comment: NEW STUDY JUST RELEASED: “Adolescents who live in California may be more likely to use marijuana since adult recreational marijuana use was legalized in 2016, according to a new report in the Journal of Studies…
Media Release 17 February 2021 A new study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs has found that youth who live in California may be more likely to use cannabis since the drug was legalised in 2016. The…
Official advice to the Minister and Associate Minister of Health regarding ‘conversion therapy’ has revealed that a ban is not recommended. Official Information Act requests show that in 2018, Associate Minister of Health and Green MP Julie Anne Genter was…
