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Aboriginal health body calls for taskforce to tackle child sex abuse in NT

Aboriginal health body calls for taskforce to tackle child sex abuse in NT  - The risk of Aboriginal children and adolescents falling victim to sexual abuse in northern Australia is cause for "growing alarm", leaving children ...

How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network

How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network  - These were used by Aboriginal people for trading in goods and stories, and the trade routes covered vast distances across the Australian continent.

Older boozers overtaking teens

Older boozers overtaking teens  - Alcohol consumption in older people increases the risk of harms such as falls ... THE over 50s arechallenging teenagers as Australia's worst problem ...

Older workers more likely to lose jobs in manufacturing decline

Older workers more likely to lose jobs in manufacturing decline  -  Older , casual and part-time workers are more likely to be laid off as Australia's manufacturing industry continues to shrink, according to a new report.

Under fire Darebin deputy mayor Oliver Walsh continues to deny Aboriginal genocide, despite

Under fire Darebin deputy mayor Oliver Walsh continues to deny Aboriginal genocide, despite  -    I would never try to whitewash the wrongs that have been committed on Aboriginal Australians through Australian history, but I don't believe that it is ...

Indigenous youth with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder need Indigenous-run alternatives to prison

Indigenous youth with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder need Indigenous -run alternatives to prison  - While data in Australia is limited, estimates of foetal alcohol syndrome in non- Indigenous populations range from 0.14 to 1.7 per 100 children, with ...

Grant finds support in the fight for rights

Grant finds support in the fight for rights  - Sky journalist and author Stan Grant took his fight for indigenous rights to ... “ Australia is a prosperous, peaceful, cohesive society, but not for us, the ...

Call for sugar tax in Australia to reduce diabetes

Call for sugar tax in Australia to reduce diabetes  - A diabetes expert believes a sugar tax is one way Australia could tackle ... Indigenous woman Judi Hall told SBS News she was shocked when she ...

Call to scrap minor mandatory sentences

Call to scrap minor mandatory sentences  - Governments have been told to scrap mandatory prison sentences for minor crimes to keep indigenous Australians who commit traffic offences and ...

The Oldest Foods on Earth review: A path for the future of Australian cuisine

The Oldest Foods on Earth review: A path for the future of Australian cuisine  - The Oldest Foods on Earth: A History of Australian Native Foods with ... of mostly indigenous produce has created a mini-boom for producers of native ...

QUT named among best universities in the world

QUT named among best universities in the world  - You have great universities in Melbourne that are older and the University of Queensland and the traditional older unis doing well but in Australia you ...

Pope Francis Rejects Gay Diplomat in Vatican: Sexuality Cost French Ambassador His Job

Pope Francis Rejects Gay Diplomat in Vatican: Sexuality Cost French Ambassador His Job  - Following reports of resistance and delays from the Vatican, France could not appoint a gay man, Laurent Stefanini, as an ambassador to the Vatican's ...

Gay couples with children deserve our blessing

Gay couples with children deserve our blessing  - The only real danger to legalising gay marriage is that it may lead to some restriction on religious freedom. This is not the nonsensical non-issue of ...

Rainbow families the subject of tonight's The Feed

Rainbow families the subject of tonight's The Feed  - on news shapes and sizes and gay dads and lesbian mums are entering into co-parenting arrangements that aren't strictly covered by Australia law.

I will survive!': Australia's 10 best ever LGBT films

I will survive!': Australia's 10 best ever LGBT films  - The birth of LGBT cinema in Australia came, in a sense, from an unlikely place. In 1969 an American director, Frank Brittain, shot The Set in Sydney, ...

Thais celebrate New Year with street food, dancing and a water fight

Thais celebrate New Year with street food, dancing and a water fight  - But New Zealand Thai Society president Songvut Manoonpong said people in Auckland would find it offensive to be splashed by water in public.

Canada looks to NZ to improve race relations

Canada looks to NZ to improve race relations  - The relationship between Māori and the government is under the ... "We are here to find out why New Zealand enjoys, rightly so, its reputation for ...

Harm to Maori language acknowledged

Harm to Maori language acknowledged  - The government has acknowledged the Crown's past policies and practices had a detrimental effect on the Maori language. Maori Development ...

How The Dark Horse's Cliff Curtis Went From Villains to Jesus to Chess King

How The Dark Horse's Cliff Curtis Went From Villains to Jesus to Chess King  - Based on the life of Genesis Potini, a bipolar Maori chess champion, the film follows a coach and a group of poor kids from small-town New Zealand to ...

Unlikely alliance over Maori and RMA

Unlikely alliance over Maori and RMA  - His old party had persisted with the changes despite being offered a "vastly better alternative" by Mr Peters. The New Zealand First leader has offered ...

An era kept alive; the Maori's from New Zealand

An era kept alive; the Maori's from New Zealand  - Today, Maori make up over 14 per cent of the population. Their language and culture has a major impact on all facets of New Zealand life.

Grim outlook for te reo Maori

Grim outlook for te reo Maori  - Research by AUT history professor Paul Moon released in his new book Ka Ngaro Te Reo tracks the factors that led to New Zealand's indigenous ...

West Papua a regional issue, says Liberation Movement

West Papua a regional issue, says Liberation Movement  - The United Liberation Movement for West Papua says Papua remains an ... "Indonesia lobby money and economy for Fiji and Papua New Guinea. ... Yet Papuan leaders have repeatedly identified brutal treatment of their people by ...

Facebook can now describe photos to blind people

Facebook can now describe photos to blind people  - Facebook's new feature is quite a doozy - it's found a way to use artificial intelligence to describe photos, so that blind and visually impaired people  ...