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LGBT rights: 'Happy about SC decision; society needs to change'

LGBT rights: 'Happy about SC decision; society needs to change'  - Members of the LGBT community during the Chandigarh Pride Walk in ... United States, Australia and Brazil have decriminalised homosexuality.

NSW public hospitals record rise in medication errors, surgical errors, inpatient suicides

NSW public hospitals record rise in medication errors, surgical errors, inpatient suicides  - Queensland and Victoria each recorded three cases of medication errors resulting in death, Western Australia and South Australia recorded one each, ...

Benjamin Law to talk sex, relationships & PrEP with Asian gay men

Benjamin Law to talk sex, relationships & PrEP with Asian gay men  - PrEP is yet to be approved for use in Australia , although some gay men here are already importing it from overseas. The NSW Ministry for Health ...

Push for Australia to recognise foreign gay marriages

Push for Australia to recognise foreign gay marriages  - South Australian Greens Senator Rob Simms will today introduce a bill into Parliament to ensure same-sex marriages solemnised in foreign countries ...

How a country's political system works can be integral to whether or not same-sex marriage ...

How a country's political system works can be integral to whether or not same-sex marriage ...  -  Australia , by contrast, has not yet legalized same-sex marriage, despite ... Canadian lesbian and gay activists are also helped because Canada's ...

René Redzepi has concocted unique Australian dishes for the pop-up Noma outpost

René Redzepi has concocted unique Australian dishes for the pop-up Noma outpost  - Here's a closer look at what's cooking at Noma Australia . ... has delved deep into Australian tradition, borrowing ingredients from Aboriginal culture.

Agreement to prevent Aboriginal child removals gains traction

Agreement to prevent Aboriginal child removals gains traction  - We've also been to places such as the Pilbara in Western Australia and worked with Aboriginal communities there to establish their own versions of ...

Architectural world mourns death of Indigenous housing advocate Paul Pholeros

Architectural world mourns death of Indigenous housing advocate Paul Pholeros  -  Australia's architecture community is in mourning following the death on ... Pholeros' work was recognised in 2007 with an Order of Australia and ...

Indigenous prisoners in Victoria to be allowed to sell artwork and keep profits

Indigenous prisoners in Victoria to be allowed to sell artwork and keep profits  -  ndigenous prisoners in Victoria will be allowed to sell their artworks and have the profits placed in a trust until their release. Photograph: Marianna ...

Alliance predicts positive changes

Alliance predicts positive changes  - THE establishment of the Northern Region Aboriginal Alliance (NRAA) is expected to bring positive change to Aboriginal communities in the Upper Hunter. ... we all share in our region, something we haven't seen in Australia before.

Indigenous education would suffer if Gonski funding scrapped, experts warn

Indigenous education would suffer if Gonski funding scrapped, experts warn  -  Indigenous educators and members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) met a dozen members of parliament, including the education minister, ...

NT Senator Nova Peris Is The Umpteenth Indigenous Person To Cop Some Awful Racist Shit This ...

NT Senator Nova Peris Is The Umpteenth Indigenous Person To Cop Some Awful Racist Shit This ...  - The Wagga Wagga Citizen of the Year, Joe Williams, was ordered to hand back his award by Wagga Councillor Paul Funnell for not standing during a rendition of the national anthem, shortly before giving a speech explaining why Australia Day was a source of pain and mourning for him and his family.

Racial stoush erupts over QUT computer lab

Racial stoush erupts over QUT computer lab  - A woman employed in a top Queensland university's indigenous unit is ... Australia , said: “The three men told (me) that they were not indigenous .”.

Songwriters Paul Kelly and Shane Howard have look of the Irish

Songwriters Paul Kelly and Shane Howard have look of the Irish  - We're here amid one of the oldest continuous cultures on earth, Aboriginal Australia ,” said Howard. “I think the Irish story makes a contribution to a ...

Indonesia's secret dossier to suppress Papuan independence movement

Indonesia's secret dossier to suppress Papuan independence movement  - The pro-independence movement in Papua is especially sensitive in ... His strengths are his ability to motivate Central Highland people who are not ...

Maori land bill tweaked in face of dissent

Maori land bill tweaked in face of dissent  - The crown is pushing ahead with its fast track timetable to rewrite Maori land law, releasing a new version of Te Ture Whenua Maori Bill even as the ...

Iconic New Zealand Lodge Introduces 'Estate to Plate' Culinary Safari

Iconic New Zealand Lodge Introduces 'Estate to Plate' Culinary Safari  - The lodge is situated just 20 minutes from the heart of Rotorua, one of New Zealand's premier tourism destinations and a heartland of Māori culture ...

Statistics show lowest unemployment rate since 2009

Statistics show lowest unemployment rate since 2009  - Statistics New Zealand shows the unemployment rate has fallen from 6% to 5.3% in the December quarter. This is the lowest unemployment rate since ...

Public gets the chance to rub shoulders with NRL Nines players

Public gets the chance to rub shoulders with NRL Nines players  - Events like the Fan Day create a buzz in the city, and New Zealand and overseas fans get to meet their rugby league heroes – along with some of the ...

Freeland in New Zealand to sign TPP, Māori describe it as a "death sentence"

Freeland in New Zealand to sign TPP, Māori describe it as a "death sentence"  - As Canada's trade minister Chrystia Freeland travels to Auckland to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Indigenous peoples in New Zealand are ...

Urban explorers warned abandoned, quake-hit island fortress 'not at all safe'

Urban explorers warned abandoned, quake-hit island fortress 'not at all safe'  - Members of the group Urbex Central, who explore and photograph abandoned and off-limit sites around New Zealand , swam the short distance to ...

Māori Woman selected for Civil Society Task Force

Māori Woman selected for Civil Society Task Force  -  INA is pleased to announce that Marama Pala (INA Executive Director) has been elected co-chair of the Civil ...

Jon Stokes: Waitangi grandstanding wasted opportunity for Maori

Jon Stokes: Waitangi grandstanding wasted opportunity for Maori  - Jon Stokes: Waitangi grandstanding wasted opportunity for Maori ... Will the TPP signing be reversed or will New Zealand's involvement as a country ...

Last 10 countries to legalise same-sex marriage

Last 10 countries to legalise same-sex marriage  -  LGBT community: Last 10 countries to legalise same-sex marriage ... New Zealand : Same-sex marriage was legalised and went into effect on August ...