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How Brunch Became a Battleground in Australia's Intergenerational War

How Brunch Became a Battleground in Australia's Intergenerational War - The growing divide between young and old Australians comes back to fear too. Namely, millennials are scared they'll never have the security of ...

Deep Water' Is The Crime Show That Every Australian Should Be Watching

Deep Water' Is The Crime Show That Every Australian Should Be Watching - Inspired by the real-life murders of gay men in Sydney in the '80s and '90s, many of the crimes depicted are still unsolved (and unpunished) to this day ...

How Australian Actress Brenna Harding Was Born Into Her Activism

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How Australian Actress Brenna Harding Was Born Into Her Activism - How Australian Actress Brenna Harding Was Born Into Her Activism ... and media representation—a significant step for Australia's LGBT community.

More Australian children living in poverty today than 10 years ago

More Australian children living in poverty today than 10 years ago - While Australia has enjoyed 25 years of uninterrupted growth, it seems to have done little to reduce the number of children living in poverty .

How your charity helped to free me from poverty

How your charity helped to free me from poverty - She stands shoulder to shoulder with the boys in her class and because she is receiving an education in Australia , and I know she will have the ...

Govt to 'focus on economy' to reduce poverty

Govt to 'focus on economy' to reduce poverty -  Australian Council of Social Service released the report showing that more than 730,000 Australian children are living in poverty , with those living in ...

Mapping and Imagining WA shows how the west was wondered

Mapping and Imagining WA shows how the west was wondered - West Australian indigenous artist Julie Dowling paints a sinister scene of ... Unknown Land: Mapping and Imagining Western Australia is at the Art ...

Atlantic Philanthropies project to boost indigenous leadership

Atlantic Philanthropies project to boost indigenous leadership - The University of Melbourne last week became the lead institution for one of the biggest single philanthropic projects in Australian history. The size ...

Juvenile detention officer urinated in toilet and told boy to drink it, inquiry told

Juvenile detention officer urinated in toilet and told boy to drink it, inquiry told - While the inquiry is examining the entirety of the protection and detention systems in the territory, Indigenous people are vastly overrepresented in ...

Significant Indigenous artworks to be auctioned off in Melbourne

Significant Indigenous artworks to be auctioned off in Melbourne - A comprehensive international collection of Indigenous Australian artworks has come home. Owned by US tech magnate, Stephen Luczo, and his wife ...

South Australia's always led the way on progress. Why not follow their lead on ...

South Australia's always led the way on progress. Why not follow their lead on ... - South Australia was the first state to allow all women to vote, to give Aboriginal people control of their land, and to decriminalise homosexuality.

Urgency demanded for Indigenous maternity services

Urgency demanded for Indigenous maternity services - The report states that 24 per cent of Indigenous women who give birth each year are located in remote Australia , compared with just two per cent of ...

NT Aboriginal boarding school in jeopardy

NT Aboriginal boarding school in jeopardy - Almost 300 Northern Territory children have rallied outside Parliament House demanding the government save Australia's largest Aboriginal boarding ...

The logic fail of Christian objections to marriage equality

The logic fail of Christian objections to marriage equality - Eighteen pages on why God is supposedly against homosexuality and ... The people advocating for marriage equality in Australia are not attempting ...

Gay Refugees On Manus Are Not Australia's Problem, Says Immigration Head

Gay Refugees On Manus Are Not Australia's Problem, Says Immigration Head - The prospect of gay refugees being resettled in Papua New Guinea, where homosexuality is illegal, is not Australia's problem, a top immigration ...

Should gay marriage be legal in australia essay

Should gay marriage be legal in australia essay - Should gay marriage be legal in australia essay. 5 stars based on 160 reviews. Movie references in essays. A reflective essay is best described as an ...

Papua New Guinea gay community mourns man allegedly killed by relative

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Papua New Guinea gay community mourns man allegedly killed by relative - Even though Harry had such a positive impact on people's lives, he also had a ... Under Papua New Guinea law, male homosexual activity is illegal, ...

Kiwi suspensions target Maori

Kiwi suspensions target Maori -  Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell says it's abhorrent that some schools are finding underhand and unlawful ways to suspend and expel ...

University of Otago on Te Wahanga Parakuihi with Dale Husband

University of Otago on Te Wahanga Parakuihi with Dale Husband - Ora Toa, the health services of Ngati Toa, employs five Maori GPs who are keen to mentor Maori students. Dr Sean Hanna, another of their GPs, ...

Chief Coroner releases provisional annual suicide figures for the 2015/16 year

Chief Coroner releases provisional annual suicide figures for the 2015/16 year -  Māori suicide death numbers are down by one from last year with 129. Within this total, Māori male suicide has dropped by 10 from last year and ...

Tamati Coffey, a new breed of Maori and keen to do well for his people.

Tamati Coffey, a new breed of Maori and keen to do well for his people. - A year out from the election, Labour's Waiariki candidate has given notice to Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell there's a fight on for his ...

What a nation chooses to remember and forget: the war for New Zealand's history

What a nation chooses to remember and forget: the war for New Zealand's history - Those who tell Maori to stop living in the past rarely apply the same logic to first world war commemorations. Is New Zealand mature enough to own its ...

Wahine Maori suicides increasing

Wahine Maori suicides increasing - There were 129 Maori suicide deaths, with Maori male suicides down 10 on the previous year and females up nine. The highest number of suicide ...

More resources needed to curb high Māori suicide rates

More resources needed to curb high Māori suicide rates - Dr Coupe said the fact that the Māori population was disproportionately younger compared to other ethnicities was also reflected in the suicide figures.