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Horror As Australian Schoolchildren Taught It's Okay To Be Gay

Horror As Australian Schoolchildren Taught It's Okay To Be Gay  - Horror swept the population today as The Australian revealed in a front ... including dangerous and subversive teachings like “ gay , lesbian and trans ...

12 great books by Australian women

12 great books by Australian women  - The $50,000 prize has become an influential initiative, significantly boosting book sales and raising author profiles. This year it saw over 170 submissions including fiction and nonfiction books.

We must redouble closing gap efforts: PM

We must redouble closing gap efforts: PM  - "I affirmed the coalition's commitment to deliver a new future, with hope and opportunity for all, to Indigenous Australians ," he will tell parliament of his ...

The Thinnest, Strongest Condoms Will Be Made From Australian Grass

The Thinnest, Strongest Condoms Will Be Made From Australian Grass  - Fibers from Australia's Spinifex grass can be used to make ultra-thin, super-strong ... Traditionally, Spinifex resins were used by Australian indigenous  ...

Closing the Gap: 'we are sick and tired of going to funerals' say Indigenous groups

Closing the Gap: 'we are sick and tired of going to funerals' say Indigenous groups  - The co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, Jackie Huggins, expresses succinctly the frustration felt by many Indigenous  ...

Meet 7 Indigenous legends who are fighting to 'close the gap'

Meet 7 Indigenous legends who are fighting to 'close the gap'  -  Australia is failing to meet most of its goals to close the gap between Indigenous and other Australians on health, education and employment.

Indigenous Australians must stop the excuses and accept responsibility

Indigenous Australians must stop the excuses and accept responsibility  - Twenty years on, the “reconciliation” circus has failed. The responsibility crusade must begin. Making whites nicer won't make Aborigines richer or ...

Indigenous life expectancy has not improved, Closing the Gap report shows

Indigenous life expectancy has not improved, Closing the Gap report shows  - The Prime Minister's promising to work more with Indigenous Australians and the Opposition Leader's pledging to hold a referendum on constitutional ...

Anger over Northern Territory Aboriginal living conditions sparks legal action, inquiry call

Anger over Northern Territory Aboriginal living conditions sparks legal action, inquiry call  -  Australian Lawyers for Remote Aboriginal Rights have taken unprecedented legal action on behalf of the tenants against the Territory Government.

Close the Gap 2016: Calls for inquiry amid a 'more fails than passes' report

Close the Gap 2016: Calls for inquiry amid a 'more fails than passes' report  - The good news: the targets to halve infant mortality by 2018 and halve the gap in Year 12 attainment rates for Indigenous Australians are on track.

Malcolm Turnbull urged to tackle high rate of Indigenous incarceration

Malcolm Turnbull urged to tackle high rate of Indigenous incarceration  - Mick Gooda, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice ... at the underlying causes of people going to jail,” Gooda told Guardian Australia .

Number of Australians coming out on Facebook doubles in year

Number of Australians coming out on Facebook doubles in year  - The number of people coming out as LGBT on Facebook daily has doubled in Australia since the start of 2015, the social media network has ...

LGBT Bullying Could Cause Permanent Depression & Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

LGBT Bullying Could Cause Permanent Depression & Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder  - Violence against LGBT youths still abound, with a third of adolescents still suffering discrimination, harassment and assault. A study says that these ...

Six Nations school offering degree in aboriginal languages

Six Nations school offering degree in aboriginal languages  - Creating degree programs for aboriginal languages was one of the 94 recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Gareth Morgan labelled 'selfish' as Kiwi donors threaten to pull funding if he gets involved

Gareth Morgan labelled 'selfish' as Kiwi donors threaten to pull funding if he gets involved  -  People who have donated to a crowdfunding campaign to raise $2m to buy a pristine New Zealand beach for the public say they will withdraw their ...

New Zealanders are fat and in denial about it, says survey

New Zealanders are fat and in denial about it, says survey  - "I think it's normal to be overweight now," New Zealand Nutrition Foundation ... " People are also not comfortable using some of the terminology.

Tourism New Zealand turns to Megan Gale to lure high-spending cyclists

Tourism New Zealand turns to Megan Gale to lure high-spending cyclists  - Tourism New Zealand has chosen model Megan Gale, whose half- Maori mother was born in New Zealand , as the face of a new marketing campaign ...

Trans-Pacific Partnership signed in New Zealand amid mass protests

Trans-Pacific Partnership signed in New Zealand amid mass protests  - Protesters in New Zealand denounced the ISDS clauses as an attack on ... The Maori Party has supported all the National government's austerity ...

Call for more funds for Te Puni Kōkiri

Call for more funds for Te Puni Kōkiri  - How well is the Ministry of Women's Affairs actually doing for Māori women in New Zealand ? "I can't say that we have actually had any information ...

Te Puni Kokiri contractors cost $7.8 million

Te Puni Kokiri contractors cost $7.8 million  - Change has not delivered the gains as the Ministry of Maori Development's contracting and consultancy costs bulge to $7.8 million says Labour's ...

And we're off! Policy & polls to start 2016

And we're off! Policy & polls to start 2016  - New Zealand First and the Maori Party are both potential kingmakers, while ACT, United Future and the Conservatives barely register. At a party level, ...

Rankin tomahawk ambush rankles with museum

Rankin tomahawk ambush rankles with museum  - The items are part of a long term exhibition Ko Waitangi Tenei/This is Waitangi, which looks the relationship between Maori chiefs and the British ...

Pause call for land law reforms

Pause call for land law reforms  - A lawyer with extensive treaty and Maori land experience says the rewrite of Maori land law needs to pause to allow proper consultation and ...

Grievance history on display at Waitangi

Grievance history on display at Waitangi  - "I think that's where the museum is important because a lot of particularly Pakeha New Zealanders don't have a great understanding about why Maori  ...