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Man's egg-eating habits drove giant Australian bird to extinction

Man's egg-eating habits drove giant Australian bird to extinction  - Some 50,000 years ago, Australia featured a giant flightless bird ... to place the fragments ages between 54,000 and 45,000 years old .

Aboriginal mother told to 'speak English'

Aboriginal mother told to 'speak English'  - AN indigenous woman talking to her toddler daughter in her native language in Adelaide on Tuesday was told: “It's Australia Day, we speak English in ...

Secret to Australia's gastronomy success

Secret to Australia's gastronomy success  - Add to that a small but very special and unique pantry of native Australian ingredients and you have the raw materials for a unique cuisine.” Shewry ...

Brisbane could rename historically racist Boundary streets

Brisbane could rename historically racist Boundary streets  - Mainstream Australia , unfortunately, has this tendency to just keep trying to ... "Unless there's a strong and clear call from local Aboriginal people to ...

Aboriginal experience surgically targeted at national psyche

Aboriginal experience surgically targeted at national psyche  - Stan says the Australian dream is rooted in racism. Social scientists agree with him – we're living a dream that distracts us from difficult truths.

Backlash as party-goers dress in blackface

Backlash as party-goers dress in blackface  - Two men have caused backlash after photos of them in blackface, dressed as Indigenous Australians , surfaced on social media. The two men, who ...

The Secret River offers lessons in living together

The Secret River offers lessons in living together  - How different a place would Australia be if the first white settlers had listened to and learned from the Indigenous custodians of the land, muses actor ...

Grant: 'The Australian Dream remains outside our grasp'

Grant: 'The Australian Dream remains outside our grasp'  - Stan Grant gave a speech about discrimination against Aboriginal people that many call a 'Martin Luther King moment for Australia '. The journalist ...

Programme aims to give diabetes patients a jumpstart in life

Programme aims to give diabetes patients a jumpstart in life  - We've heard a lot recently about the horrifying statistics for diabetes in New Zealand ," he said. "With 250,000 people diagnosed, around 40 new ...

Women urged to check for signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer

Women urged to check for signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer  - One woman every 48 hours dies of ovarian cancer in New Zealand , yet most women are unaware of the symptoms. The New Zealand Gynaecological ...

Maori Science Academy blasts off

Maori Science Academy blasts off  - Its aim is to help Maori high school students do better at science and the launch featured astronauts, lab coats and chemical experiments designed to ...

Charles Finny: TPP deserves praise from Maori

Charles Finny: TPP deserves praise from Maori  - I believe that rather than being inadequate in its protections for Maori , TPP is if anything a taonga in the way it protects the rights of the New Zealand  ...

The profile of a Maori Wrasse fish in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia

The profile of a Maori Wrasse fish in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia  - The profile of a Maori Wrasse fish in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia - Stock Photo from the largest library of royalty-free images, only at ...

Papua New Guinea MP slams Governor's 'dictatorial' campaign against foreign-owned shops

Papua New Guinea MP slams Governor's 'dictatorial' campaign against foreign-owned shops  - Mr Arore warned that if local people see the Governor confronting ... of the shops that he is targeting are actually owned by Papua New Guineans .

Light shines from Rangitoto

Light shines from Rangitoto  - o Rangitoto coincides with the inaugural Tāmaki Herenga Waka Festival, which focuses on the Maori identity and heritage of Tāmaki Makaurau.

Updated draft of Ture Whenua Bill and hui details released

Updated draft of Ture Whenua Bill and hui details released  -  Māori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell has released an updated draft of Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill and details around further consultation hui.