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We owe it to our children to raise taxes on soft drinks

We owe it to our children to raise taxes on soft drinks  - Despite huge gains in oral health among children in Australia , tooth decay rates have increased dramatically over the past 20 years, and for the first ...

Dire warning for our young children

Dire warning for our young children  -  AUSTRALIA is among the world's worst for enrolment levels of children younger than three in early-learning programs, affecting their success when ...

Empower communities' to battle self-harm

Empower communities' to battle self-harm  - The Aboriginal residents of the small Western Australian community of Leonora have lost four young people to suicide since Christmas, and the grief ...

Plebiscite funding better spent on Canberra institutions: Andrew Barr

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Plebiscite funding better spent on Canberra institutions: Andrew Barr  - Old Parliament House and the National Museum of Australia will remain the ... referendum on constitutional recognition for indigenous Australians .

Research into melanoma, prostate and breast cancer brings hope

Research into melanoma, prostate and breast cancer brings hope  - There are always new headlines about cancer. According to an update from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 72,048 males and 58,418 ...

Most Australians at risk of heart attack or stroke fail to take preventative medication

Most Australians at risk of heart attack or stroke fail to take preventative medication  - Most Australians at risk of heart attack or stroke fail to take preventative medication ... It was published in the latest Medical Journal of Australia .

Aboriginal WWI veterens to have Hammond Park streets named after them

Aboriginal WWI veterens to have Hammond Park streets named after them  - TWELVE aboriginal men who served Australia in World War I will have streets named after them. The Geographical Names Committee and Lands ...

Indigenous groups disappointed in budget with 'little to offer'

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Indigenous groups disappointed in budget with 'little to offer'  - The government will loan $65m to the Indigenous Land Corporation, to help it out of debt after a widely criticised purchase of the Ayers Rock Resort for more than it was worth.

African drumming helping Indigenous children overcome anger

African drumming helping Indigenous children overcome anger  - The program was designed in Western Australia 13 years ago to meet the needs of youth at risk and it now runs across the country for children aged ...

Power, Protection and History

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Power, Protection and History  - The current exhibition at the South Australian Museum, Shields: Power and Protection in Aboriginal Australia , explores these key associations while ...

Former Aboriginal mission site becomes a focus for cultural education and a celebration of survival

Former Aboriginal mission site becomes a focus for cultural education and a celebration of survival  - This piece of furniture is a direct link to a chapter of Australia's past when ... Now back in Aboriginal hands, this site of the former Bulgandramine ...

Australia's Indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in Ottawa

Australia's Indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in Ottawa  - An experiment that has won favour in Australia is gathering steam in Ottawa as the federal government scrambles to live up to its promise to help ...

Government considers bankrolling opponents, supporters before plebiscite

Government considers bankrolling opponents, supporters before plebiscite  -  Same-sex marriage: Government considers bankrolling opponents, ... Greens senator Robert Simms asked whether the Australian Christian Lobby ...

Same-sex marriage discrimination case ends

Same-sex marriage discrimination case ends  - Ms Delaney claimed the contents marginalised lesbian, gay , bisexual, transgender and intersex Australians in an offensive and insulting way.

No data exists on suicide among gay and trans Indigenous Australians

No data exists on suicide among gay and trans Indigenous Australians  - There is no such data when it comes to Indigenous LGBTQI (lesbian, gay , ... the anecdotal doesn't make it through,” Bonson told Guardian Australia .

Good people doing good things: a hospital among the trees

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Good people doing good things: a hospital among the trees  -Kiwi Lucy Gallagher is one of the nurses tending to patients in the hospital beneath the trees. Lucy recently spent six months in the war-torn country with Red Cross, supporting local healthcare and hospitals.

New Zealand's top online banking mistakes and how to avoid them

New Zealand's top online banking mistakes and how to avoid them  - Online banking is now at the heart of most New Zealanders ' financial lives. Every day we make more than six million payments worth a total of more ...

Government's response to demands from People of Hela Province

Government's response to demands from People of Hela Province  - The elected Leaders from Hela Province and Southern Highlands Province, in the National Parliament, have taken note of the issues raised by the ...

Arrest of Papuans showcases paradox in democracy, human rights: Activist

Arrest of Papuans showcases paradox in democracy, human rights: Activist  - Rights activists in Papua have slammed the arrest of 1,888 students and ... “Last year, only hundreds of Papuan people were arrested for [protesting] ...

NZ health system ignores Māori tikanga - study

NZ health system ignores Māori tikanga - study  -  Māori cancer patients feel uncomfortable when they use mainstream healthcare because Māori tikanga - or culture - is ignored, new research has ...

Scholarships to train Maori surgeons

Scholarships to train Maori surgeons  - College president David Watters says fewer than 10 of the 800 practising surgeons in New Zealand identify with the college as being Maori . He says ...

I had a man dressed in a Nazi uniform come to see me' - New Plymouth mayor won't seek re ...

I had a man dressed in a Nazi uniform come to see me' - New Plymouth mayor won't seek re ...  -  New Plymouth Mayor Andrew Judd last night announced he will not seek re-election after being harassed and abused for supporting local Maori .

Talking to children about animals: how society sends mixed messages about respect

Talking to children about animals: how society sends mixed messages about respect  - I am also Maori and raised by a strong Maori woman. Respect for the land and its people were central to my upbringing. In our culture we are ...

Fund aims to boost Maori surgeons

Fund aims to boost Maori surgeons  - Of 800 practising surgeons in the country, only 10 are registered as being of Maori descent and a new scholarship hopes to boost numbers.