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Moms, you need to realise how much child care costs are chewing your salary

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Moms, you need to realise how much child care costs are chewing your salary  - New findings from a study conducted by the Australian National University, commissioned by child care provider Goodstart Early Learning, reveal that ...

Why are more parents choosing to delay when their child starts school?

Why are more parents choosing to delay when their child starts school?  - In Australia , a child is considered to be ready for formal schooling around the age of five, although legally a child is not required to start school until ...

Beef bait lures replace kangaroo in program that respects Indigenous culture

Beef bait lures replace kangaroo in program that respects Indigenous culture  - We're really fortunate in Western Australia that most of our native animals are highly immune to 1080, so they have to take a lot of baits for them to be ...

Lost language of Boandik Indigenous people revived in traditional possum fur cloak

Lost language of Boandik Indigenous people revived in traditional possum fur cloak  - possum fur cloak, the making and wearing of which has long been a symbol of tradition and ritual for Indigenous tribes in the south-east of Australia .

Yirrkala festival to celebrate music, dance and fashion CULTURE

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Yirrkala festival to celebrate music, dance and fashion CULTURE  - His great granddaughter Magnolia Maymuru, the Northern Territory's entrant in the Miss World Australia competition, will lead models down a fashion ...

I saw blood on the side of her dress'

I saw blood on the side of her dress'  - Instead, for the first time in Australia's history, the damage done to native people through “Europeanisation” was successfully argued to diminish the ...

Remnants of ancient asteroid impact uncovered in ancient sediments in Australia

Remnants of ancient asteroid impact uncovered in ancient sediments in Australia  - The proof of the ancient mega-collision was found in a rock formation called the Marble Bar, in northwestern Australia . The nearly 3.5 billion years old  ...

Spiritual care at the end of life can add purpose and help maintain identity

Spiritual care at the end of life can add purpose and help maintain identity  - In Australian nursing homes, older people are increasingly frail and being admitted to care later than they used to be. More than half of residents suffer ...

Local Bundjalung woman appointed Koori Mail boss

Local Bundjalung woman appointed Koori Mail boss - When Ms Moran, whose family is from Cabbage Tree Island, first walked through the doors of the Koori Mail in Lismore, northern NSW, as a ...

Central Market store scores Indigenous partnership deal

Central Market store scores Indigenous partnership deal  - Central Market store scores Indigenous partnership deal ... believed to be Australia's first part- Indigenous -owned provider of native greens, game and ...

Catholic voters say human dignity “a secondary value” in federal election

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Catholic voters say human dignity “a secondary value” in federal election  - Young Aboriginal children in the indigenous community of ... Young people and indigenous Australians are identified as being among the ...

René Redzepi learns a new alphabet to understand Australian food

René Redzepi learns a new alphabet to understand Australian food  - I know what I would do if I were to stay in Australia full-time. I would have multiple Aboriginal Australians as part of the team to help develop the flavour ...

Town in Australia Aims for Bilingualism

Town in Australia Aims for Bilingualism  - The coastal tourist town of Broome, Australia is making efforts to be fully bilingual in the local Aboriginal language Yawuru and English. All five schools ...

Indigenous reconciliation in Australia: still a bridge too far?

Indigenous reconciliation in Australia : still a bridge too far?  - Success will come from changing the way Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's issues are talked about and addressed – from one of deficit in ...

Barbara Kay on preserving aboriginal languages: Cultural will cannot be outsourced

Barbara Kay on preserving aboriginal languages : Cultural will cannot be outsourced  - Over the weekend, the Globe and Mail published a cri du coeur by Adrienne Clarkson about the importance of language , titled All Canadians Must Tell ...

Housing crisis looms: Little

Housing crisis looms: Little  - Housing New Zealand was letting those people down. There were examples of boarded-up state houses sitting empty when a little effort would make ...

Local student studies in New Zealand

Local student studies in New Zealand  - the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, recently completed a research project on New Zealand's North Island that dealt with the water rights of the Maori  ...

Koziol brought film world to Wairoa

Koziol brought film world to Wairoa  - Whetu Fala, the chair of Maori screen workers' guild Te Aho Whakaari, says Mrs Koziol believed the whanau of her area deserved to see the world's ...

More cash to tackle sexual violence

More cash to tackle sexual violence  - Rape prevention network TOAH-NNEST wants some of the extra money in the budget for sexual violence services to go towards services for Maori .

Latest labour market factsheets for Māori and Pacific peoples released

Latest labour market factsheets for Māori and Pacific peoples released  - The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has today released labour market factsheets for Māori and Pacific peoples for the year to ...

Maori broadcasters challenge under-funding

Maori broadcasters challenge under-funding  - A study last year by the guild found Maori screen professionals were working long hours and being under-paid as they tried to maintain output with ...

92 nations formerly had anti-LGBT laws; now it's 75 (or 79)

92 nations formerly had anti- LGBT laws; now it's 75 (or 79)  - 92 nations formerly had anti- LGBT laws; now it's 75 (or 79) ... Lesotho also was dropped from the list after adopting a new Penal Code, which ... Islands, a self-governing country whose residents all have citizenship in New Zealand ; ...

Re-writing history by pretending it never happened

Re-writing history by pretending it never happened  - But the Education Ministry is right: no need for local students to have to bother with all that, especially where there is such a large Maori population in ...

NZ a world leader in recognising LGBT rights

NZ a world leader in recognising LGBT rights  -  New Zealand has been rated as a world leader in recognising the rights of the LGBT community, a step ahead of our neighbours across the Ditch.