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Lukluk long setolmen long Australia long NAIDOC Wik  - Sampela Aboriginal grup ibin statim dispela Naidoc long 1920s em blong mekim ol arapela i luksave long sindaun blong ol Indigenous Australian na ...

Speakers warn over empty promises  - the chief executive of the Northern Territory's Northern Land Council (NLC), warned the Darwin conference that Indigenous affairs in Australia were ...

State asserts more control over Aurukun school  - But the indigenous leader hit back, slamming the Palaszczuk government's review of the school, released yesterday, as a “quite ignorant” assessment ...

Young Far North indigenous leaders speak of hope in 'two worlds' - Miss Hollingsworth said NAIDOC Week was increasingly helping to bring indigenous issues into the consciousness of mainstream Australian society.

Australia is one of the most obese nations in the world, a report has found  -  Australia's Health Tracker, released today by Australian Health Policy ... blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, and a record high suicide rate.

What does the election result mean for marriage equality?  - Saturday's poll has not delivered a government for Australia but advocates for ... Parents of LGBTI Australians said the election returned an increased ... while political elites and some in the media are fixated with same-sex marriage.

Taking action to beat anal cancer  - Over the past few decades, there has been a steady increase in anal cancer worldwide. While this is a relatively uncommon type of cancer, one of the key features is it affects certain groups of people much more than the general population. Gay and bisexual men are at particularly high risk of anal cancer, and experience rates that are at least 20 times higher than rates among heterosexual men.

Shorten may gain gay marriage upper hand - The situation will become clearer today with the resumption of counting by the Australian Electoral Commission. On same-sex marriage, Mr Shorten ...

Australian Election 2016; the inevitable triumph of change in Australia . -  Australia's under 30's are radically different, philosophically and ideologically, from older Australian generations. Through our voting patterns, which ...

Bruce Pascoe on pre-colonial Aboriginal agriculture  - His book Dark Emu presents a radically different picture of Australia's ... has accumulated astonishing descriptions of a pre-colonial Aboriginal life.

Aurukun: state to take over schooling in troubled north Queensland region  - Queensland treasurer and minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander partnerships, Curtis Pitt, meets with Cape ... Australian Associated Press.

Vanessa Russ: the first Aboriginal head of the Berndt Museum  - The museum holds one of the most significant collections of Australian indigenous art and cultural materials in the world, with many pieces from ...

8 Indigenous Australian films and TV series everyone should watch right now - The cultural histories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are some of the oldest in the world, so it only makes sense their stories light up ...

Aboriginal Regional Authorities announced  - The Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association (ATLA) is one of three Aboriginal organisations recognised as South Australia's first Aboriginal  ...

Young Far North indigenous leaders speak of hope in 'two worlds'  - Miss Hollingsworth said NAIDOC Week was increasingly helping to bring indigenous issues into the consciousness of mainstream Australian society.

 Leading the Bunganditj language revival  - Ms Joy is speaking in the traditional language of Bunganditj, native to the Boandik people of south-east South Australia and considered a lost ...

KPMG Partner sleeps rough for Rainbow Youth  - In partnership between RainbowYOUTH and Lifewise, this will be the first targeted intervention for LGBT people in New Zealand . Baldock says she is ...

Ngāruahine Bringing Te Reo to a café near you  - Te Wiki Te Reo Māori ( Māori Language Week) 2016 sees the launch of an initiative by Te Korowai o Ngāruahine Trust that encourages its community ...

No gains for Māori while National in power  - The Minister of Māori Development needs to be honest with his people and admit his party's ongoing support of the National Government has seen ...

Maori architect's treasure under threat - Spokesperson Vern Winitana says the former Te Urewera National Park headquarters was designed by the first Maori registered architect, John Scott ...

High turnover for reo teachers  - With Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori now happening, the minister has reiterated her commitment to the goal of having as many New Zealanders as possible ...

New Zealand children are active users of te reo Māori  - New information collected from more than 6,100 children participating in Growing Up in New Zealand reveals that while fluency in te reo Māori  ...

Subsidy could help rural housing  -  Mr Flavell says there is also a need for infrastructure in small communities with high Maori need, such as Katikati, Matakana Island and Te Kao.

All at sea with indigenous science  -  Maori , Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders will take centre stage of the Australasian marine science conference in Wellington this week. They will ...