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Health service calls for royal commission into Indigenous suicide rates

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Health service calls for royal commission into Indigenous suicide rates  - Suicide rates in some remote Kimberley region communities doubled in the past decade – there were 125 suicides, including 102 by Indigenous people, 71% of them young people.

Hanson reaches out after Yanner calls her a 'racist redneck'

Hanson reaches out after Yanner calls her a 'racist redneck'  - Senator-elect Pauline Hanson has offered an olive branch to the Aboriginal land rights activist who publicly berated her as “a racist redneck”.

Coles' program doubles its indigenous workforce in a year

Coles' program doubles its indigenous workforce in a year  - The company's target is for indigenous employees to make up 3 per cent of its workforce, reflective of the indigenous population of Australia , and it ...

Kimberley economy 'will frustrate plan for remote communities'

Kimberley economy 'will frustrate plan for remote communities'  - The sluggish economy in Western Australia's north will frustrate a bold new proposal to reward Aboriginal job-finders with new housing, according to ...

Indigenous Activist Verbally Destroys Pauline Hanson In 25 Seconds

Indigenous Activist Verbally Destroys Pauline Hanson In 25 Seconds  - Most of Australia has been trying to dismantle and disavow Pauline Hanson's entire political agenda for decades, but Aboriginal activist Murrandoo ...

Hate speech risk in same-sex marriage plebiscite, says Fred Nile's CDP

Hate speech risk in same-sex marriage plebiscite, says Fred Nile's CDP  - Hate speech risk in same-sex marriage plebiscite, says Fred Nile's CDP ... Australian Eye Media generates revenue from paid content from ...

Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto credits George Takei's generation for making his able to embrace ...

Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto credits George Takei's generation for making his able to embrace ...  - He also appeared to take a swipe at Australia not yet legalising same-sex marriage, as the US did through a Supreme Court ruling last year.

Gay dating app Grindr under fire for asking users about HIV status

Gay dating app Grindr under fire for asking users about HIV status  - The potential move comes at an interesting time for gay men having casual sex in Australia . In recent years, studies have shown that men with HIV ...

Firms turn spotlight on indigenous culture

Firms turn spotlight on indigenous culture  - Firms have celebrated Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with a special curation of social, academic and cultural events for ...

Fabric of indigenous history woven into day

Fabric of indigenous history woven into day  - of the campus's 1500 Aboriginal students, but an honour to the overall history of Australia , which he said was a part of the fabric of everyone.

Australia artefact find divides Aboriginal clans

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Australia artefact find divides Aboriginal clans  - The deep blue Botany Bay lies ahead of Assen Timbery as he walks past rows of homes in a predominantly Aboriginal community ...

Leaked docs reveal secret Coalition plans for indigenous rangers

Leaked docs reveal secret Coalition plans for indigenous rangers  - Leaked docs reveal secret Coalition plans for indigenous rangers ... employment and training for indigenous Australians into work applying their ...

Young soldier signals her pride

Young soldier signals her pride  - The Torres Strait Islander woman took a break from Exercise Hamel to visit the opening night of the photographic exhibition Indigenous Australians at ...

Terry Smyth tells of Australia's greatest lawman in Denny Day

Terry Smyth tells of Australia's greatest lawman in Denny Day  - Day's key legacy was his capture of 11 men involved in the 1838 Myall Creek massacre in which at least 28 unarmed Aboriginal children, women and ...

Clover woos Phelps for council

Clover woos Phelps for council  - The Sydney City Council area is home to the largest LGBT community in Australia , a fact Dr Phelps said was due to people gravitating to the city as ...

Transgender Guys Are Finding Acceptance In This Australian Country Town

Transgender Guys Are Finding Acceptance In This Australian Country Town  - There might not be a teenager in Australia who loves biology as much as Oscar ... But one way in which Shepparton stands out is its LGBT community: ...

Papua`s Biodiversity Going International

Papua `s Biodiversity Going International  - Since early 2005, ant nest from Papua has been introduced to the public and to date a lot of people are still busily discussing its effectiveness to cure ...

Three way fight for Maori Party leadership

Three way fight for Maori Party leadership  - Incumbent Rangimarie Naida Glavish faces challenges at the annual conference in from former New Zealand First MP Tukoroiangi Morgan and long ...

Fury over a stop to funding for wahakura that save babies

Fury over a stop to funding for wahakura that save babies  - The National President of the Maori Women's Welfare League is appalled at the hypocrisy of a Government where one department proclaims children ...

Maori Party looks to the future

Maori Party looks to the future  - The Maori Party will start working on a long-term strategy to ensure it stays in parliament when members gather for its annual meeting in Auckland.

Health access could level heart attack rate

Health access could level heart attack rate  - Auckland University researchers say Maori and Pacific people need better access to all aspects of healthcare if they are to cut down their much higher ...

Meet the LGBT athletes heading to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

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Meet the LGBT athletes heading to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games  - The 2016 Olympic Games are fast approaching and this year a record number of LGBT athletes will be competing. In August, a whopping 33 openly ...

LGBT history lessons edging closer to California classrooms

LGBT history lessons edging closer to California classrooms  -  After multiple delays, California education officials are moving to comply with the nation's first law requiring public schools to ...

One-off funding of up to $25000 for initiatives.

One-off funding of up to $25000 for initiatives.  - Those eligible for funding include Maori community groups or any group which services a catchment with at least a 50 percent Maori population , Maori ...