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Australia's Indigenous tennis coach empowers youth on search for next superstar

Australia's Indigenous tennis coach empowers youth on search for next superstar  -  Australia's first Indigenous male tennis player to play on centre court at Wimbledon is travelling the country to promote tennis to Indigenous youth.

Aboriginal art auctions: four big sales to test the market

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Aboriginal art auctions: four big sales to test the market  - Boxer was a passionate collector of both Western and Indigenous art who was a benefactor to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and ...

Indigenous environmental values as human values

Indigenous environmental values as human values  - The research reported in this paper focused on understanding how a community of indigenous Australians value the environment and wish it to be ...

Can we be Australian without...

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Can we be Australian without...  - By Australian food we mean the plants, fruits and animals that have grown here and sustained the indigenous people of the land for over 50,000 years. If we eat only the food brought by the first settlers and all those who followed, can we call ourselves Australian?

Australian priest campaigns to abolish controversial gay panic law

Australian priest campaigns to abolish controversial gay panic law  - A Catholic priest has made an unlikely stand to abolish an outdated, homophobic Australian law. In two states in Australia killing a gay man because ...

It's fine to be gay, so long as it's not my child

It's fine to be gay , so long as it's not my child  - Two out of three Europeans think that having a gay child is a disgrace and a ... The University of Western Australia has documented the first detailed ...

3.5 billion-year-old glass beads found in Australia point to mega asteroid hit

3.5 billion-year- old glass beads found in Australia point to mega asteroid hit  -  Australian scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid they say slammed into Earth some 3.46 billion years ago – making it the second oldest ...
Something Wild general manager Daniel Motlop with harvested paperbark near Darwin. - Gunner says the new partnership has already begun talking with Indigenous Business Australia and Supply Nation (a non-profit organisation that aims ...

My art is a personal antidote for the effects of colonisation

My art is a personal antidote for the effects of colonisation  - My work was stressful and all-consuming, because Indigenous health ... of Australia , and the negative stereotypes associated with Aboriginal identity ...

Community control for Aboriginal housing

Community control for Aboriginal housing  - Two Indigenous organisations, Aboriginal Housing Northern Territory ... homelessness in the NT is 17 times higher than anywhere else in Australia .

$200 million mine expansion in Western Australia halted after 'exceptionally rare' indigenous ...

$200 million mine expansion in Western Australia halted after 'exceptionally rare' indigenous ...  - The artefacts which may indicate Aboriginal settlement were uncovered in the remote region of Pilbara, north of Western Australia in a rock shelter, ...

Campaign groups in Europe call for better LGBT education in schools on IDAHOT

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Campaign groups in Europe call for better LGBT education in schools on IDAHOT  - In Australia , a new toolkit from the creators of Gayby Baby is being introduced to schools to educate about the experiences of children with LGBT  ...

No external pressure, say Protesting PNG students

No external pressure, say Protesting PNG students  - This is the third week that students at UPNG and a number of other tertiary institutions around PNG have been calling for the prime minister Peter O'Neill to stand aside to face police investigation over his alleged role in a major fraud case.

ADHD may emerge after childhood for some people, according to new study

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ADHD may emerge after childhood for some people , according to new study  - Both the UK and Brazilian studies support previous findings from a New Zealand cohort. The research sample in the King's College London study ...

Aotearoa denies illegal discarding claims

Aotearoa denies illegal discarding claims  -  Maori were absent from New Zealand commercial fishing during the 50s, 60s, 70s and even the 80s, when a lot of this alleged dumping was ...

A qualitative analysis of Māori and Pacific smokers' views on informed choice and smoking

A qualitative analysis of Māori and Pacific smokers' views on informed choice and smoking  - Objectives Tobacco companies frame smoking as an informed choice, a strategy that holds individuals responsible for harms they incur. Few studies ...

Land consolidation key to development

Land consolidation key to development  - Northland Maori land owners are being urged to collectivise their land holdings so it can achieve its potential. A hui in Kerikeri today is discussing a ...

Maungakiekie happy place for tree planting

Maungakiekie happy place for tree planting  - Paul Majurey says replanting had to wait for the settlement of Tamaki Makaurau claims settlement, the return in the Maori to iwi and the formation of ...

Maori values have business value

Maori values have business value  - We have things we do by nature that are valued well beyond Maori , particularly globally, so I think it is important we get that wide spread we can be ...

Developing land to see economic growth in the Northland region

Developing land to see economic growth in the Northland region  - Northland has the largest Māori population 44% and it has significant assets that are owned by Māori around just over $2 billion. But that's low ...

Full MSG membership for United Liberation Movement of West Papua justifiable: PM Sogavare

Full MSG membership for United Liberation Movement of West Papua justifiable: PM Sogavare  - an Observer status of the MSG in 2015, the situation in West Papua became tenser, leaving the indigenous people now at the brink of extinction.

NZ a world-leader in recognition of LGBT rights

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NZ a world-leader in recognition of LGBT rights  - New Zealand has been rated as a world-leader when it comes to recognising the rights of the LGBT community, a step ahead of our neighbours across the ditch. A map produced by ILGA, the international lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex association, shows how different countries are rated according to their laws regarding sexual orientation.