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Poll shows most Aussies want marriage equality resolved in Parliament

Poll shows most Aussies want marriage equality resolved in Parliament - The latest Essential Poll on the issue of marriage equality has revealed that most Australians support equal marriage rights and would prefer to see it ...

Australian newspaper prints cartoon which compares gay people to the Nazis

Australian newspaper prints cartoon which compares gay people to the Nazis - An Australian newspaper has caused outrage after it published a cartoon by controversial right-wing cartoonist Bill Leak depicting a rainbow coloured ...

An open letter to my aboriginal compatriots

An open letter to my aboriginal compatriots - Not only are both indigenous and non- indigenous populations evolving fast, they are also merging. According to an Australian National University ...

Boomerangs Were Lethal Weapons of War, Skeleton Suggests

Boomerangs Were Lethal Weapons of War, Skeleton Suggests -  At first the story seemed clear enough. When an Aboriginal man's skeleton was found beside an Australian river bank two years ago, the long gash in ..

World Suicide Prevention Day Wrap Up

World Suicide Prevention Day Wrap Up - As we move into the days and weeks following World Suicide Prevention Day I want to reiterate that, on the weekend, and every day we acknowledge ...

Indigenous recognition deserves serious debate. Andrew Bolt shouldn't be part of it

Indigenous recognition deserves serious debate. Andrew Bolt shouldn't be part of it - Soon you will be asked to vote in a referendum to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution,” the voiceover reads. “This referendum will ...

Why do we ignore our Indigenous culture?

Why do we ignore our Indigenous culture? - Ignoring our Aboriginal heritage doesn't make us more progressive as a ... Australia is a vast country identified by stunning landscapes, flora and ...

Capitalising on a Culturally-Diverse Workplace

Capitalising on a Culturally-Diverse Workplace - Half of Australia's population were born overseas or have a parent who was ... We're now working with national and international organisations on a ...

Science is verifying traditional 'Mother Earth' mythology: David Suzuki

Science is verifying traditional 'Mother Earth' mythology: David Suzuki - This is one of many of the arguments that renowned Canadian scientist, environmentalist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki will bring to the AG Society Gala Awards this 27 October, where he will be appearing as special guest speaker before an audience of Australian environmentalists, adventurers and their supporters.

Domestic violence levels in Northern Territory 'horrendous', says coroner

Domestic violence levels in Northern Territory 'horrendous', says coroner - Violence in Indigenous communities, in particular, is “literally out of control” and women are living terrible lives and enduring horrifying deaths, judge Greg Cavanagh said.

Restaurant Thought It Was A Good Idea To Have A 'Colonial Era' Theme

Restaurant Thought It Was A Good Idea To Have A 'Colonial Era' Theme - which is offending the sensibilities of Australia's indigenous community. ... the British Empire populated many areas in the world including Australia, ...

Marriage debate sees spirit of tolerance erupt across the country

Marriage debate sees spirit of tolerance erupt across the country - Paul Daley, The Guardian Australia , yesterday: Indigenous recognition deserves serious debate. Andrew Bolt shouldn't be part of it. Should we also ...

How early Aboriginal Australians journeyed from Africa

How early Aboriginal Australians journeyed from Africa -  Aboriginal Australians have the closest genetic links to highland Papua New Guinea populations, the largest DNA study of its kind has found, ...

Indigenous Australians most ancient civilisation on Earth, DNA study confirms

Indigenous Australians most ancient civilisation on Earth, DNA study confirms - A new population analysis of Indigenous Australians and Papuans shows they can trace their origins back to the very first arrivals on the continent ...

Genomes confirm Aborigines as first Australians

Genomes confirm Aborigines as first Australians - Aboriginal Australians are descended from a single migratory wave that arrived ... Its Australian element was conducted in collaboration with Aboriginal ... cultural landscape, including laying the roots for most Aboriginal languages , ...

New report shows half a million older Australians are living below the poverty line

New report shows half a million older Australians are living below the poverty line - ABOUT half a million older Australians – or one-third of those on the age pension – are living below the poverty line, according to a new report.

Your new iPhone's features include oppression, inequality and tax avoidance

Your new iPhone's features include oppression,  inequality  and tax avoidance - Whatever marvels have been shoved into the new iPhones, the devices serve to increase the gulf between the super-rich and the rest of us, deny countries of rightful tax revenues, and oppress Chinese workers even while depriving Americans of high-paying jobs. Arrogant towards critics and governments, glutted with cash and yet plainly out of ideas, Apple is elegant shorthand for a redundant economic system. One of those attempted suicides, a 17 year old called Tian Yu, flung herself from the fourth floor of a factory dormitory and ended up paralysed from the waist down. Speaking later to academic researchers, she described her working conditions in remarkable testimony that I then covered for the Guardian. She was essentially a human battery hen, working over 12 hours a day, six days a week, swapped between day and night shifts and kept in an eight-person dorm room. When the historians of globalisat

Fury over NZ First's tactics

Fury over NZ First's tactics - The Maori Party has lashed out at NZ First and cabinet ministers are seething over the way it has wrecked plans to pass five treaty settlement bills at a ...

Māori rights or commercial interest?

Māori rights or commercial interest? - The government has said the Green Party will definitely vote with the bill, but Green party co-leader Metiria Turei says they're upset with how Māori  ...

Hikoi challenges settlement land grab

Hikoi challenges settlement land grab - Mako Tuuta from the Taranaki Maori Women's Network says apart from being the place the Land Wars started, it's a reminder of an all too common ...

Moana Maniapoto to join hall of fame

Moana Maniapoto to join hall of fame - A giant of modern Maori music is to be recognised by the wider music industry. Moana Maniapoto is to be inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of ...

Southern Maori Health Plan focuses on wellness

Southern Maori Health Plan focuses on wellness - Southern DHB Executive Director of Māori Health Pania Coote says the plan aims to promote a “paradigm shift, from thinking about Māori health in ...

Peters defends treaty bill delay

Peters defends treaty bill delay - It is wrong in Maori law, it is wrong going back centuries in the way we see things, and that is the kind of thing they were going to ram through, and we ...

Winston Peters in war of words with 'unsightly trio of drama queens' over Treaty settlement stoush

Winston Peters in war of words with 'unsightly trio of drama queens' over Treaty settlement stoush - Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson, Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee and Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox have all panned NZ First, ...