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World's 62 richest people now own as much as poorest half

World's 62 richest people now own as much as poorest half  - Oxfam report finds that global one per cent of wealth holders now own more than the rest of the world combined. Lauren McCauley from Common ...

There's No Pride In Australia's Homophobic Anti-Refugee Policies

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There's No Pride In Australia's Homophobic Anti-Refugee Policies  - There's No Pride In Australia's Homophobic Anti-Refugee Policies ... Many of those refugees – fleeing war trauma and poverty – are Lesbian, Gay, ...

Complementary health body backs call for more vit. D self-medication

Complementary health body backs call for more vit. D self-medication  - With up to 58% of Australians found to suffer from vitamin D deficiency, the complementary medicines industry has welcomed a new article published ...

Short reviews of non-fiction from Australia and overseas

Short reviews of non-fiction from Australia and overseas  - This scholarly study of suicide starts with the dominant theory of French sociologist Emile Durkheim, which posits that voluntary death is determined by ...

Australia Day fun outdoors

Australia Day fun outdoors  - Diramu Aboriginal Dance will perform traditional dances and Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime stories while the Hornsby Berowra Ukulele Group and ...

Scientists uncover older-than-Earth meteorite; world-class technologies part of Australia's ...

Scientists uncover older -than-Earth meteorite; world-class technologies part of Australia's ...  - The Desert Fireball Network Team celebrated the New Year's with a bang as it unravelled its findings of an “ older than Earth” chondrite meteorite in ...

Retirees should be rewarded not penalised for selling their large family homes to help free up the ...

Retirees should be rewarded not penalised for selling their large family homes to help free up the ...  - A Productivity Commission report on the housing decisions of older Australians revealed many when faced with lower incomes were more likely to cut ...

Australian authorities refuse to recognise British couple's same-sex marriage after honeymoon ...

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Australian authorities refuse to recognise British couple's same-sex marriage after honeymoon ...  - A British man whose husband died in a tragic accident on their honeymoon in Australia has had his grief compounded by being told their marriage will ...

Facebook to support Sydney Mardi Gras with “fabulous” float

Facebook to support Sydney Mardi Gras with “fabulous” float  - Social media giant Facebook has agreed to show its support for Australia's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival. It will join other brands including ...

Indigenous Grandmothers organise against unjust removals

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Indigenous Grandmothers organise against unjust removals  - An official Australian narrative has developed around the seeming insolubility of the third world statistics of Australia's First People. This narrative ...

Fires Did Not Make Major Australian Landscape Changes

Fires Did Not Make Major Australian Landscape Changes  -  Indigenous people did make an impact on the Australian landscape. ... A model effect of the Aboriginal burning, as well as rate of erosion, was created ...

Indigenous girls boosted by grant support

Indigenous girls boosted by grant support  - A VITAL program targeted at helping young indigenous girls has been ... group was selected from a pool of close to 300 applicants across Australia .

From Uganda to the United Kingdom: Challenges and Opportunities Facing LGBT People in 2016

From Uganda to the United Kingdom: Challenges and Opportunities Facing LGBT People in 2016  - In places like Syria and Iraq LGBT lives are at risk, in Kyrgyzstan and ... In places like Northern Ireland (U.K.) and Australia the momentum towards ...

Programme unlocks memories for dementia sufferers

Programme unlocks memories for dementia sufferers  - Just over 53,500 people in New Zealand currently suffer from dementia, which causes the gradual loss of brain function, leading to confusion, memory ...

Social media boosting Fiji tourism

Social media boosting Fiji tourism  - Visitor numbers in Fiji hit a new high for the month of November with nearly ... We do see it potentially changing the landscape of how people travel.".

Truth on poverty lies amid wealth of statistics

Truth on poverty lies amid wealth of statistics  -  Poverty in New Zealand can mean nearly anything the commentator wants it to mean. ... Some people in so-called poverty even have cars and ovens.

NZ Youth ambassadors among 13 nations on special voyage

NZ Youth ambassadors among 13 nations on special voyage  -  This year's New Zealand delegation is culturally diverse. It includes Indian, Chinese and Pakistani members along with three Māori . "We've got a very ...

Ambulance for Kikori Rural Hospital

Ambulance for Kikori Rural Hospital  - Serving over 20,000 people in Kikori and the surrounding communities including Gobe and Samberigi in the Southern Highlands Province, the ...

Top 10 things to do in New Zealand

Top 10 things to do in New Zealand  - The words of a Haka often poetically describe ancestors and events in the tribe's history. In New Zealand , the Māori people are known for the 'Haka', ...

Kiwis relaxed on terror risk

Kiwis relaxed on terror risk  -  Maori and Indian New Zealanders were most concerned about a terrorist attack in New Zealand . Meanwhile, a Gallup poll in the US found 19 per cent ...

Two loved missionaries die three days apart

Two loved missionaries die three days apart   - In Tilburg, the MHMs had a famous red tile-roofed minor seminary and it was there he began his missionary formation in 1944 and continued it in the ...

Project to help young people tackle mental illness

Project to help young people tackle mental illness  - The Mental Health Foundation is calling for young talented New Zealanders to apply to take part in the Point of Difference programme. This allows ...

The mystery of Captain Cook's souvenirs

The mystery of Captain Cook's souvenirs  - He was happy the taonga still existed, he said, but sad they would be unknown to most New Zealanders . About 20,000 Māori artefacts are held in ...