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Royal Commission identifies what makes institutions child safe

Royal Commission identifies what makes institutions child safe  - The elements of a child safe institution have been underpinned by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child , which Australia ratified in ...

Changing The Conversation Around Suicide

Changing The Conversation Around Suicide  - But in Australia , the leading cause of death in Aussie males aged between 15 and ... Lifeline Australia CEO Pete Shmigel told The Huffington Post Australia ... down the barriers in the conversation around mental health and suicide.

Queensland magistrate's book, Saltwater, raises questions around Indigenous youth crime

Queensland magistrate's book, Saltwater, raises questions around Indigenous youth crime  - Over the two decades she was representing young Indigenous Australians , Ms McLennan said she did not see any positive outcomes for those ...

Indigenous DNA at centre of ethical furore could help reconnect stolen generations

Indigenous DNA at centre of ethical furore could help reconnect stolen generations  - Historic blood samples collected from Indigenous Australians could connect members of the stolen generations to their families and improve ...

Excessive force and prolonged isolation alleged at Queensland youth detention centre

Excessive force and prolonged isolation alleged at Queensland youth detention centre  - A boy on suicide alert who was held down, cuffed, stripped naked and put into ... Moore said the revelations showed Australia urgently needed “an ...

Australian minister admits hundreds of migrants have been 'stranded' on nearby islands

Australian minister admits hundreds of migrants have been 'stranded' on nearby islands  - The fate of hundreds of migrants deported by Australia to a remote Pacific ... insisting they return to their home countries or remain in the poverty -stricken ... Australia and Papua New Guinea this week reached a deal to close the ...

A battle of life and death

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A battle of life and death  - Statistics in the recently released Australian Youth Index report shows the rate of suicide for people between 10 and 29 years old is highest in ...

An age-old problem

An age- old problem  - With a title like A Beautiful Young Wife , this is of course about the decline of an older husband. Professor Edward Landauer, virologist in avian flu at Utrecht University, sees Ruth Walta’s bottom passing on a bicycle and knows she must be his. Full of autumnal entitlement, at 15 years her senior even Edward is surprised when this vegetarian PhD student of sociology loves him back. They marry.  

Olympic triumphs show the idiocy of race quotas

Olympic triumphs show the idiocy of race quotas  - It argued that employing indigenous Australians less qualified than their non- indigenous rivals was acceptable because it lessened discrimination.

Ever-present scandal surrounding the incarceration of indigenous Australians

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Ever-present scandal surrounding the incarceration of indigenous Australians  - The images have been seen around the world and have shaken Australia : teenager Dylan Voller hooded and to strapped a chair in the Don Dale ...

NT Aboriginals 'most policed' in Australia

NT Aboriginals 'most policed' in Australia  -  Indigenous people in the Northern Territory are the most policed in the ... at Kalkarindji in central Australia on Thursday and several members told both ...

Darwin Artist Selected for Prestigious Leadership Program::

Darwin Artist Selected for Prestigious Leadership Program::  - Established in 2009, ACCELERATE is a program designed by the British Council and Australia Council for the Arts for Indigenous Australians working within the creative industries providing access to significant national and international networks and career development opportunities.

Images reveal 'torture' at Townsville youth detention centre

Images reveal 'torture' at Townsville youth detention centre  - A Western Australian Indigenous mentor has welcomed the news of a Royal Commission into the treatment of children in the Northern Territory ...

More evidence of abuse of children in detention is revealed

More evidence of abuse of children in detention is revealed  - It has been in central Australia this week speaking with remote indigenous community members to determine, in part, where outside of Darwin and ...

Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on "sacred land"

Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on "sacred land"  -  Traditional landowners say a plan to store radioactive waste near sacred Aboriginal sites is a desecration of their heritage.

Most of us love this property bubble

Most of us love this property bubble  - Most New Zealanders think that this property price inflation is their best friend. It appears to create wealth out of thin air. The trouble is it creates just as ...

Technology takes Taranaki iwi radio across the world

Technology takes Taranaki iwi radio across the world  -  Live recording also presents an opportunity to not only promote Te Reo Maori but help keep the station connected to its listeners around New Zealand  ...

Greens urge NZ intervention on Australian offshore detainees

Greens urge NZ intervention on Australian offshore detainees  - The Green Party has urged the government to consider resettling refugees and asylum seekers from Australia's offshore detention centres in Papua ...

Fate of 850 Men Uncertain With Closure of Australian Migrant Camp

Fate of 850 Men Uncertain With Closure of Australian Migrant Camp  - Australian officials are trying to decide what to do with hundreds of asylum-seekers at a controversial detention center it has agreed to close in Papua  ...

Jacinta Ruru most excellent teacher

Jacinta Ruru most excellent teacher  - The award acknowledges her sustained excellence in tertiary teaching to create a place for Maori to stand and be heard within New Zealand's legal ...

Regional investment key to jobs

Regional investment key to jobs  -  Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox says a regional investment strategy is needed to boost Maori job growth. The June quarter household labour force ...

Genetics change drug mix

Genetics change drug mix  - A Victoria University molecular geneticist says a wider range of drugs may need to be made available to ensure Maori and Pacific Island people are ...

Politicians pitch wares at Koroneihana

Politicians pitch wares at Koroneihana  - Political parties do come and they push their barrows and they want the audiences of te ao Maori but it's also a great opportunity for te ao Maori to put ...