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Is It Actually Harder To Learn A Language When You're Older?

Is It Actually Harder To Learn A Language When You're Older ? - So, how about that old tale that children can pick up a foreign language more easily? ... Click below to follow HuffPost Australia on Snapchat!

Separation, not integration, will result from recognition

Separation, not integration, will result from recognition - The issue of constitutional recognition of indigenous people is not what it ... Moreover, a significant number of the Aboriginal peoples in Australia  ...

Hunt for the radical centre: confronting welfare dependency

Hunt for the radical centre: confronting welfare dependency - In 2015, eight regional communities across indigenous Australia developed and provided the federal government with an agenda for empowered ...

Nigel Scullion defends failure to investigate abuse at Don Dale detention centre

Nigel Scullion defends failure to investigate abuse at Don Dale detention centre - The estimates committee heard that Western Australia , which has the highest rate of Indigenous incarceration in the country and has been lobbied to ...

Indigenous designers show their fashions on Adelaide catwalk

Indigenous designers show their fashions on Adelaide catwalk - Through textiles and design, the ancient culture of Aboriginal and Torres ... "To share that with the wider community I think it gives Australia a greater ...

Australia 'The Campest Nation On Earth,' Says UK Politician

Australia 'The Campest Nation On Earth,' Says UK Politician - If countries so dominated historically by Catholicism, such as Argentina or Spain, can have gay marriage, why on earth can't Australia , the country of ...

Dolly Parton Speaks Out On Gay Marriage

Dolly Parton Speaks Out On Gay Marriage - It's been many years since activists have pushed the Australian Government hard to amend laws to legalize gay marriage. And now, in response to ...

Marriage equality delay in Australia holds a lesson for Canadian MPs

Marriage equality delay in Australia holds a lesson for Canadian MPs - In Australia , LGBT activists are celebrating because a parliamentary deadlock means that gay marriage will remain illegal for the foreseeable future.

Gay porn star speaks candidly about recovering from crystal meth addiction

Gay porn star speaks candidly about recovering from crystal meth addiction - That some porn stars should indulge in drugs is nothing new, but now one Australian adult entertainer has spoken out in an exclusive interview with ...

Business must help with social reform: Ken Henry

Business must help with social reform: Ken Henry - Former Treasury boss Ken Henry has called on corporate Australia to help wean indigenous communities off welfare and not leave the job to the state.

Hunt for the radical centre: confronting welfare dependency

Hunt for the radical centre: confronting welfare dependency - The discourse reverberated here in Australia. .... Australia's indigenous imprisonment rate is the highest in the world: 27 per cent of our prisoners come ...
Hope for Australia's indigenous  -  But now, residents of a remote town in the country’s outback have had enough. In the town of Bourke, juvenile detention is almost a rite of passage: nine out of 10 boys who are sent to prison reoffend within 12 months of being released.

Australia's newest sporting champions are an Indigenous figure skater and his Russian-born partner

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Australia's newest sporting champions are an Indigenous figure skater and his Russian-born partner -  Indigenous ice skater Harley Windsor from Rooty Hill in Sydney's west and his Russian-born partner Ekaterina (Katia) Alexandrovskaya made history ...

Aboriginal artist's message resonates in Palestine

Aboriginal artist's message resonates in Palestine - Indeed, much of what Richard Bell, the indigenous Australian artist, had to say in Jerusalem on 14 October could have come from any Palestinian in ...

The United States Has Still Not Acknowledged It Committed Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples

The United States Has Still Not Acknowledged It Committed Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples - The international Indigenous movement is becoming .... in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia . Whether it ...

Kids young as nine having suicidal thoughts

Kids young as nine having suicidal thoughts - CHILDREN as young as nine are revealing suicidal thoughts at school, prompting experts to advise parents to confront the issue with young people ...

'Australia has no greater friend' - what Julie Bishop really thinks of New Zealand

'Australia has no greater friend' - what Julie Bishop really thinks of New Zealand - But just as New Zealand would deport Australians on your criteria we are entitled to deport New Zealanders on our criteria. And there's a general ...

Greens call for mental health inquiry

Greens call for mental health inquiry - Young people are waiting months to get mental health follow-ups after asking for help and a government inquiry into ... "New figures released by the coroner last week show that New Zealand has the highest youth suicide rate in the ...

Continuing Restrictions on Free Expression in West Papua

Continuing Restrictions on Free Expression in West Papua - She emphasizes that “as a journalist in West Papua , I cannot express to people around me what is truly going on.” Such self-censorship, which ...

High profile speakers for Māori research symposium

High profile speakers for Māori research symposium - A symposium focused on establishing Māori research projects has a packed two-day programme of high-profile speakers. Around 180 people are ...

Act fast, trust the people you are there to serve'

Act fast, trust the people you are there to serve' - A small iwi community group working to stop a rash of youth suicides does not have time to wait for funding, Maori health organisation boss Marama ...

Māori prison rates at record levels

Māori prison rates at record levels -  Māori make up only 14.6 percent of New Zealand's population , but a ... The high number of Māori in prison can be directly linked to the endemic ...

Tributes flow for Maori leader, soldier

Tributes flow for Maori leader, soldier - Tributes are flowing for Noel Raihania, known as Papa Noel, a Maori leader and returned serviceman who has died, aged 89. Mr Raihania was the ...

Newest Public Museum exhibit explores 'Whales: Giants of the Deep'

Newest Public Museum exhibit explores 'Whales: Giants of the Deep' - The indigenous Maori people who inhabited New Zealand prior to the arrival of Europeans didn't hunt whales, but if a whale was stranded on a beach, ...