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Students live below poverty line in food challenge : Carolle Varughese has taken up a five-day challenge to live off $2.25 a day for food and drink. The 20-year-old Canterbury University student is among about 60 Christchurch people taking part in the Live Below the Line challenge. The campaign aims to ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Breaking the cycle of poverty : This is my sister in this video and as much as I agree that poverty is bad in NZ liz told a lot of lies...... We always had shoes and my mum never put a bill befor feeding us and we always had lunch and dinner. Yes we were in the breakfast program for ... 3News NZ

Record month for asylum-seekers Provisions are being made to build more permanent facilities on Nauru to eventually house 1500 asylum-seekers and a facility is being built on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island for 600 people. A spokeswoman for Mr Bowen told The Australian the number ...

Keeping an eye on those who would watch us : It comes as a shock that footballs for an iconic Australian brand could be hand-stitched in an Indian slum for as little as 12 cents each. As revealed by The Saturday Age nine days ago, extreme poverty drives families to sacrifice their children's ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Cuba's literacy program a success for Aboriginal community : Sixteen Aboriginal adults in the remote New South Wales town of Wilcannia are the first graduates of a groundbreaking trial literacy program that would not have been possible without the help of a tiny Caribbean nation — Cuba. At the beginning of this ... Green Left Weekly

Protection for traditional owners' special places: the untold story During 2008, through one of the most extensive consultation and decision-making processes ever undertaken in Aboriginal Australia , individual coastal native title groups made decisions about whether to allow potential sites on their traditional lands ...

Maori affairs MPs to tour Australia : well-being for Maori children and will look at examples of Aboriginal welfare across the Tasman. Committee chairman Tau Henare says the trip in October is being paid for by the Australian Government. He says a team of eight MPs is deciding which ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

UN urged to reject Aust seat bid : Mr Anderson also criticised the government for its policies on asylum seekers. " Aboriginal nations and peoples in Australia object to any support for Australia to have a temporary position on the UN Security Council," he said in the letter released on ...

A rare white whale has been spotted off Australia. : The whale, named Migaloo - Aboriginal for "white fella" - was the first all-white humpback ever to be seen when he was first spotted in Australian waters in 1991. Every year Migaloo and some 17,000 other humpbacks make the journey to and from the ...

The net result: an irritable, addicted child gamer : The inclusion acknowledges risks posed by overuse of seemingly benign technologies, classifying internet use disorder alongside other mental disorders that need further research before becoming a recognised mental illness that can be formally diagnosed ... The Age

Health, Disability and Lifespan Development seminar: 'Measuring ... However, the majority of mental health informa-tion and strategies in Australia remain focused on the exclusive identifica-tion or elimination of mental illness .

Remote indigenous funding 'spent on officials' The 230-page report says funding for programs and services for indigenous Australians is "fragmented, complex and administratively burdensome", while there is "little if any evidence" that such small-scale initiatives will produce meaningful ...

Protection for traditional owners' special places: the untold story RECENTLY the Premier of Western Australia introduced a bill into parliament. Nothing unusual in that. But this bill is unique, representing the first time in history that WA's parliament will ratify an agreement between indigenous West Australians and ...

Gay couples may get reprieve in deportation cases : Wells and Makk, are a married gay couple that have lived most of their 19 years of relationship in San Francisco. Makk is a citizen of Australia married to Wells, a U.S. citizen who suffers from AIDS-related illness. Makk is his primary caregiver. The ...

Gay HK woman begs dad to retract bounty "I am secretly praying for a blackout ... so that I can get some peace and quiet," she told the Post, as news of the marriage bounty spread through the world's media from Australia to India and the US. Chao announced the financial reward of $HK500 ...

Tassie same-sex activists to fight on : Tasmania's 15-member Legislative Council voted down the bill 8-6 on Thursday night after it had become the first to be passed in an Australian lower house last month. Success for the legislation would have made Tasmania the first state in the country ...

Preventing suicide an artform - Northern Territory News : MOST Territorians have a suicide story. One tale - used to educate indigenous communities - lies in a painting by Aboriginal elder Mia Mulladad. The artwork ...

Older women have more one night stands - Australian Women's ... : The sex and the city generation constantly has the finger pointed at them for glamorising promiscuity, and women are having sex younger than ever, but it's over ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

First bloke looks to help homeless men after New York visit The First Bloke was struck with a simple thought when he visited the oldest men's refuge in downtown New York yesterday. Why didn't Australia didn't have one? While the PM jetted out of the Big Apple on Thursday, her partner Mr Mathieson stayed on to ...

Social media: an opportunity for health professionals to contribute to wider ... If you want to change Australian healthcare for the better, engaging with social media is a great way to have your voice heard. It's said in surgery that you never want to be the first person to do an operation, nor the last to adopt a new surgical ...

Health funding crisis ahead with rising dementia rates : So Australia is doing quite a lot in terms of policy but there is a need for a lot more dollars to provide the kind of care in the kind of quantity we need given the report that we've received today. TONY EASTLEY: I think on current spending directly ...