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Survival Island': 'Blatantly racist' video game allowing users to kill indigenous Australians removed ...

Survival Island': 'Blatantly racist' video game allowing users to kill indigenous Australians removed ...  - A video game in which players could kill off indigenous Australian characters has been removed from app stores after a backlash. 'Survival Island 3: ...

Sean goes solo for a good cause

Sean goes solo for a good cause  - He left Darwin just before Christmas, partly for adventure and partly to raise money for an indigenous charity – Smugglers of Light Foundation – to help ...

In the land of ghost people

In the land of ghost people  - If there was an indigenous population living in the area that the English ... But central Australia — known as the Red Centre, because of the colour of ...

Driving through the heart of Australia

Driving through the heart of Australia  - She is talking, of course, about the relationship between indigenous Australians and the country's later settlers. Rich devotes her time to enabling ...

$1m program to curb indigenous suicide

$1m program to curb indigenous suicide  - Mr Scullion sought advice on the program partly because of the harrowing case of Peter Little, an 11-year-old Aboriginal boy from the West Australian  ...

Where are they now? Daniel Billing getting hundreds of Indigenous kids reading

Where are they now? Daniel Billing getting hundreds of Indigenous kids reading  - When Daniel Billing came up with the idea of giving Indigenous kids a ... So far, 441 Indigenous students from communities across Australia have ...

Drug data absent for indigenous Aussies

Drug data absent for indigenous Aussies  - "It is in the post-marketing space that a comprehensive and pro-active approach to addressing drug safety in indigenous Australians is urgently ...

AussieBum ads 'disrespectful' to Indigenous people

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AussieBum ads 'disrespectful' to Indigenous people  - AussieBum's Australian Day underwear line features boomerangs, dot paintings and a cartoon of an Indigenous man. Original advertising for the ...

retired public servants should be grateful

retired public servants should be grateful  - A single person in Australia , whose only income is the age pension, receives $22,000 a year, only barely above the Australia -wide poverty line, which ...

No pride in Australia's homophobic anti-refugee policies

No pride in Australia's homophobic anti-refugee policies  - Many refugees fleeing war trauma and poverty are LGBTQI. Immigration policies, including Australia's Regional Resettlement Arrangement (2013) ...

Are Businesses Ready To Let Go Of Internet Explorer?

Are Businesses Ready To Let Go Of Internet Explorer?   - Today marks the day when Microsoft finally ends support for older versions of its archaic web browser, Internet Explorer. But some businesses may not ...

LGBTI tourism in Australia gets a rebrand

LGBTI tourism in Australia gets a rebrand  - visitation from the LGBT market in recent years and Australia needs to remain active in marketing directly to these consumers to be competitive.

New Brand for Australia's lead LGBT Tourism body

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New Brand for Australia's lead LGBT Tourism body  -  Australia's lead LGBT travel body, Gay and Lesbian Tourism Australia (GALTA), has unveiled a fresh new face for the organisation, along with a ...

Blood Work: LGBT reaction to the FDA's new donation policy

Blood Work: LGBT reaction to the FDA's new donation policy  - About five or six years ago, Australia went to a one-year ban for gay and bisexual men, and there had been studies of the safety of the blood supply in ...

Young people, supported by the tourism industry, lead charge for water quality

Young people , supported by the tourism industry, lead charge for water quality  - A group of young Kiwis, backed by the nearly $12 billion tourism industry, are winding their way down the country to expose the state of New Zealand's  ...

Frozen placentas stolen from Invercargill family in alleged break-in

Frozen placentas stolen from Invercargill family in alleged break-in  - "It's a big thing for a Maori woman to lose a placenta." The missing placentas was especially unsettling because a neighbour had reported two cats ...

National Surfing Highlights: Four runner-up finishes for Kereopa

National Surfing Highlights: Four runner-up finishes for Kereopa  - Hot favourite from Arataki Kea Smith lead most of the morning, but a final score of 12.1 meant that Elin Tawharu of Mount Maunganui took out top ...

Maori women viewed as 'inferior' by settlers

Maori women viewed as 'inferior' by settlers  - The way early settlers documented Māori women is disturbing and has had a damaging impact on how wahine are viewed today, an emerging health ...

West Papuans testify

West Papuans testify  - We want to testify about the people who were disappeared, those who were imprisoned and those who were tortured. There have been many forms of ...

Free West Papua – we testify

Free West Papua – we testify  - It contains the voices of many of the people of West Papua Jason* has collaborated with and is in part based on a similar testimony developed for the ...

We need to talk, says Aotearoa Fisheries

We need to talk, says Aotearoa Fisheries  - Iwi are anxious about the government's plan for two fishing parks and want to talk about customary rights, says the largest Maori -owned fishing ...

The GE Vscan Project: Changing lives in PNG

The GE Vscan Project: Changing lives in PNG  - Many times, mothers in rural areas across Papua New Guinea are faced ... for example, Yampu Health Centre serves 20,000 people , but they have ...

Civil Resistance in West Papua

Civil Resistance in West Papua  - Our people have a long, long history of resistance. We Papuans have been resisting outsiders for centuries. Back to the 1850s, the Dutch who were ...

Government urged to send more Papua New Guineans for overseas Missionary and Voluntary Work

Government urged to send more Papua New Guineans for overseas Missionary and Voluntary Work  - “When we are in government, we will provide this missing-link leadership for our people to get outside exposure for a meaningful contribution in the ...