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Is this Australia's next popular food trend?

Is this Australia's next popular food trend?  - Ex-AFL player Daniel Motlop's goose meat is employing young Indigenous people – and impressing top chefs. The NT goose operation started with a ...

Roger aiming for a Brisbane boost to new season

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Roger aiming for a Brisbane boost to new season  - Swiss tennis player Roger Federer having a picture taken with the Australian Aboriginal community in Brisbane on Saturday ahead of the Brisbane ...

Is technology leaving a generation of Aussies behind?

Is technology leaving a generation of Aussies behind?  - A WHOLE generation of older Australians are getting left behind in the rush to do just about everything online. It seems unfair, short sighted and also ...

Report reveals high level of Indigenous youth in detention nationwide

Report reveals high level of Indigenous youth in detention nationwide  - About half of all young people in detention are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, according to a report by the Australian Institute of Health ...

Suicide adds to woes of indigenous people

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Suicide adds to woes of indigenous people  - Survival International released a statement on Monday saying that the Guarani Kajowa people of southern Brazil have a suicide rate 34 times higher than the Brazilian rate.

Stories shared for world to see

Stories shared for world to see  - The boys joined Suicide Prevention Australia advocate Lauren Breen, The Livin Charity's Sam Webb and Oscar-winner Greg Van Borssum for a full ...

Aboriginal people and politics in 2015 - a year of euphoric highs and fraught lows

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Aboriginal people and politics in 2015 - a year of euphoric highs and fraught lows   - The protests came after the Western Australian government flagged the closure of up to 150 remote Aboriginal communities in 2014 after the federal ...

It's time for Aboriginal identity and story to be embraced by all Australians'

It's time for Aboriginal identity and story to be embraced by all Australians '  - Challenged, by former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, to imagine an Australia where our Aboriginal cultural identity is indistinguishable from Australian  ...

New ad campaign for Australia's Golden Gaytime ice cream recalls Brokeback Mountain

New ad campaign for Australia's Golden Gaytime ice cream recalls Brokeback Mountain  - One of Australia's most popular ice cream treats is referencing the 2005 Oscar winning gay love story Brokeback Mountain in its latest billboard ...

Teen Wolf' Season 5 Character is Gay? See Tumblr Revelation of Colton Haynes Here

Teen Wolf' Season 5 Character is Gay ? See Tumblr Revelation of Colton Haynes Here  - People magazine cited the fan post as: “When I found out Colton Haynes had a secret gay past, I got so excited even though I know it makes ...

Belvoir opens its 2016 season with 'Jasper Jones'

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Belvoir opens its 2016 season with 'Jasper Jones'  - It's the summer of 1965 - there’s war in Indochina, Civil Rights marches, and the stirrings of women’s liberation. But in the backblocks of Western Australia, Charlie Bucktin is at home dreaming of writing the Great Australian Novel.

Rural Indigenous artists leading young Sydneysiders in hip hop boot camp

Rural Indigenous artists leading young Sydneysiders in hip hop boot camp  - Some of Australia's most successful Indigenous hip hop artists are leading a boot camp for 12 to 16-year-olds in Sydney in a week's time.

Mal Brough may lose his job over Ashbygate. He should have lost it over the intervention

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Mal Brough may lose his job over Ashbygate. He should have lost it over the intervention  - Similarly, Australian conservatives had long argued decried the very limited forms of self-determination won by Aboriginal communities since the ...

Malaysia can expect 100000 more Uber drivers

Malaysia can expect 100000 more Uber drivers  - Uber would help many to increase their incomes and get people to rely less on their own cars to get around, said Uber ( Malaysia ) general manager ...

ISIS in the World's Largest Muslim Country

ISIS in the World's Largest Muslim Country - In recent days, rumblings of ISIS have reached the country with the largest Muslim population in the world. Security forces in Indonesia, which is home to some 200 million Muslims, launched a manhunt for the militant leader Santoso, who had publicly pledged loyalty to the Islamic State. Police arrested several suspected ISIS supporters amid chatter about terror plots, while Australia’s  

Better economy, bigger challenges in fire monkey

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Better economy, bigger challenges in fire monkey  - Soothsayers predict a much brighter Indonesia in terms of economic ... the revelations of major cases and the prosecutions of innocent people in 2016, ...

Now Everyone Can Travel

Now Everyone Can Travel  - As the economy emerges, more Indonesians are now able to travel within the ... Among the activities people usually upload is travelling related posts.

Why are migrants snubbing NZ's regions?

Why are migrants snubbing NZ's regions?  - Measures aimed at improving the spread of migrants across New Zealand ... to have settled in Auckland, along with 57 per cent of people from India.

Kenya university reopens after extremists killed 148 people

Kenya university reopens after extremists killed 148 people  - Officials say the Kenyan university where Islamic extremists killed 148 people nine months ago has reopened amid high ...

Aspiring Ngāti Porou artist working on her first album

Aspiring Ngāti Porou artist working on her first album  - Gisborne local Ariana Henare comes from a strong farming family, but it's not farming that's her passion but music. She has been gracing local stages ...

Native Affairs Summer Series – A Winning Formula

Native Affairs Summer Series – A Winning Formula  - The need for speed is in the DNA of the Evans whānau. Mitch Evans is the latest to make his mark in motor racing, after growing up in the pit lane.

Pride Radar – a growing number of Prides around the world!

Pride Radar – a growing number of Prides around the world!  - Smaller Prides in countries located in the pacific ocean, and in New Zealand in particular, are organized on an annual base. In Latin America, many ...

7-Eleven Slurpee ad labelled “incredibly racist and offensive” but watchdog dismisses complaint

7-Eleven Slurpee ad labelled “incredibly racist and offensive” but watchdog dismisses complaint  - The advertising watchdog has dismissed a complaint against an advertisement for 7-Eleven, which has been labelled as “incredibly racist and offensive”.

Govt urged to loosen rules on e-cigarettes

Govt urged to loosen rules on e-cigarettes  - Some New Zealand tobacco researchers are calling for the government to ... People inhale and exhale the liquid vapour produced by an electronic ...