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How an anti-immigrant reality TV star ended up back in Australian politics

How an anti-immigrant reality TV star ended up back in Australian politics  - Political elites have had a tough time of it lately, and Australia's are no .... Linda Burney, the first Indigenous Australian woman to be elected into the ...

School leads language revival after student prompts search for Indigenous teacher

School leads language revival after student prompts search for Indigenous teacher  - Like almost all Indigenous languages in south-eastern Australia , the language is no longer spoken fluently in Victoria. Mr Gardiner only began ...

Studies Show Indigenous West Australians Most Affected by Mesothelioma

Studies Show Indigenous West Australians Most Affected by Mesothelioma  - Asbestos It has long been known that mesothelioma, a rare and always fatal form of cancer, is caused by asbestos. Though the mineral has been used ...

The suicide prevention space is immature and inauthentic

The suicide prevention space is immature and inauthentic  -  Australia -wide, suicide takes more lives than all violence, including domestic homicides and military deaths and the road toll combined. The suicide  ...

Age discrimination commissioner calls out prejudice against older Australians

Age discrimination commissioner calls out prejudice against older Australians  - Two years ago Susan Ryan AO, the age discrimination commissioner in Australia , highlighted workplaces needed an overhaul if age prejudice was to ...

The Australian Sex Party Attacks The Catholic Church

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The Australian Sex Party Attacks The Catholic Church  - The ad blames the Catholic Church for the lack of equal marriage rights for Australia's LGBT community, and criticizes its tax-exempt status: "Who's got ...

How elders are reviving Aboriginal language through children's songs

How elders are reviving Aboriginal language through children's songs  - The Aboriginal language of the Eora people is rarely spoken these days, but as a group of young children proved during a NAIDOC Week event in ...

Call for changes to trans children's access to hormone therapy

Call for changes to trans children's access to hormone therapy  -  Australia is the only country in the world that requires Family Court approval for a child to begin hormone treatment, a process which can cost families ...

Marriage equality campaigners emboldened by election outcome

Marriage equality campaigners emboldened by election outcome  - While Australians wait to hear who will form government, there's new uncertainty over how the debate over same-sex marriage equality will play out.

Stoicism has to go to save Australian lives

Stoicism has to go to save Australian lives  - It was a powerful display of how pervasive suicide is in our country and it ... cannon of suicide prevention and support projects on offer in Australia .

Thousands of Aboriginal children have no official identity

Thousands of Aboriginal children have no official identity  - Nearly one in five Aboriginal children aged under 16 years in Western Australia had an unregistered birth and are likely to have no official identity.

Australian Aboriginals Have World's Highest Mesothelioma Rate

Australian Aboriginals Have World's Highest Mesothelioma Rate  - The Aboriginal people of Western Australia have the highest per capita incidence of malignant mesothelioma in the world according to a new ...

Teaching Aboriginal art in schools across Australia

Teaching Aboriginal art in schools across Australia  - Mr Saunders and his wife Christine travel across Australia teaching Aboriginal art to students through a mural-based program. They work with groups ...

developing employment opportunities proving essential for Aboriginal people

developing employment opportunities proving essential for Aboriginal people  - The employment sector for Newcastle's Aboriginal people is getting ... for our people to start looking at positives and growth of Aboriginal Australia .".

Indigenous West Australians have highest death rate for asbestos-related disease: study

Indigenous West Australians have highest death rate for asbestos-related disease: study  -  Indigenous West Australians have the highest death rate for malignant mesothelioma in the world, a study into asbestos-related diseases has found.

Australia, it's time. Open your eyes to reason

Australia , it's time. Open your eyes to reason  - As we celebrate NAIDOC week, all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be recognised in the Australian Constitution. It's a call Fred Hollows ...

Govt investment in sugary drinks as bad as tobacco

Govt investment in sugary drinks as bad as tobacco  - Figures obtained by Radio New Zealand show as of May 31, the NZ ... a Super fund - a lot of the people who are getting super are grandparents and ...

18 years since the Biak massacre, but suffering still ongoing

18 years since the Biak massacre, but suffering still ongoing  - The tragedy of the Biak massacre reminds us of the ongoing suffering of the West Papuan people and the importance of full membership for them at ...

Reo marker of national identity

Reo marker of national identity  - The longitudinal study of more than 6000 children found 28 percent of four years olds sometimes or often greeted or farewelled people in Maori .

Ngāti Apa disappointed with Corrections Minister

Ngāti Apa disappointed with Corrections Minister  - Their appointment must be approved through the National System after having first been nominated by iwi, the Māori Women's Welfare League or ...

Big gains to be made growing doctors' cultural competence

Big gains to be made growing doctors' cultural competence  - The early emphasis of our push to improve the cultural competence of all doctors will initially be on inequities in Maori health but, in time, it will extend ...

Intimidated by fluent te reo Māori speakers? Try this

Intimidated by fluent te reo Māori speakers? Try this  - Three phrases that will help you feel less awkward if your te reo isn't strong!

Reo journey life changing

Reo journey life changing  - One of the ambassadors for Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori says learning to speak the language has been life-changing and humbling. Netballer turned ...

Attack on gang volunteer hateful

Attack on gang volunteer hateful  - What Ngapari does is build a future where young Maori people will be doctors and teachers and scientists, business people and entrepreneurs rather ...