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WA Attorney General plans to expunge historical homosexual convictions

WA Attorney General plans to expunge historical homosexual convictions - Many of June Lowe's friends have a criminal record, just because they had homosexual sex before it was decriminalised in Western Australia in 1989.

Legalise nicotine vaping as a harm reduction solution for tobacco smoking

Legalise nicotine vaping as a harm reduction solution for tobacco smoking - Yet paradoxically, Australia's health bodies have failed to catch up with the times and nicotine solutions for vaping are still listed under Schedule 7 of ...

How Malaysia allows child abuse to go unpunished

How Malaysia allows child abuse to go unpunished - Malaysia child abuse, child abuse laws, Malaysia criminal justice system, .... Australian detectives who investigate paedophiles in the region believe ...

All preschoolers to learn foreign languages

All preschoolers to learn foreign languages - The Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) Polyglots apps help ... their child using foreign words at home which they had learnt at preschool.

Games shame for all the world to see

Games shame for all the world to see - Specifically, Australia's Constitution, written in 1901, does not recognise the 50,000-plus years of history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

High Indigenous cancer rates prompt new approach to close the gap

High Indigenous cancer rates prompt new approach to close the gap - Alarming statistics showing Indigenous Australians are 30 per cent more likely to die from cancer than other Australians and 65 per cent more likely if ...

Mixed report on Australia's sexual health

Mixed report on Australia's sexual health - Chlamydia is on the rise and the HIV infection rate among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is at an all-time high but remains stable for ...

Worawa College empowering young Aboriginal women with skills and confidence

Worawa College empowering young Aboriginal women with skills and confidence - Community and Society: Indigenous ( Aboriginal and Torres Strait .... As young Aboriginal women in modern-day Australia , these girls occupy a ...

NSW mayor criticised for calling Aboriginal land claims 'opportunistic'

NSW mayor criticised for calling Aboriginal land claims 'opportunistic' - The Aboriginal Land Council has criticised the mayor of Glen Innes in ... they are eligible to have a land claim over them,” he told Guardian Australia .

Ancient 'Moon Rock' engravings protected as proof of Aboriginal astronomy

Ancient 'Moon Rock' engravings protected as proof of Aboriginal astronomy - A collection of Aboriginal rock engravings known as 'Moon Rock' has been ... heritage protection to preserve the site for the benefit of all Australians .

Most of 260000 young Australians with chlamydia STI don't know

Most of 260000 young Australians with chlamydia STI don't know -  Hundreds of thousands of young Australians are living with a sexually .... In the non- Indigenous population about 75 per cent of HIV infections were ...

Indigenous HIV rates double while falling among wider population, new research shows

Indigenous HIV rates double while falling among wider population, new research shows -  Indigenous Australians continue to be disproportionately represented in HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates compared to the wider ...

Ian Thorpe and partner Ryan Channing post snaps in Australian Marriage Equality slogan T-shirts ...

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Ian Thorpe and partner Ryan Channing post snaps in Australian Marriage Equality slogan T-shirts ... - And on Sunday the 34-year-old and his partner, Ryan Channing, got behind Australia's Marriage Equality campaign to make same-sex marriage legal.

Documenting the Secret Lives of India's LGBTQ Youth

Documenting the Secret Lives of India's LGBTQ Youth -  Gay men and women are increasingly coming out and not marrying, according to the two photographers. But queer culture is still secretive and being ...

The OUTinPerth archive reveals people, parties and protests

The OUTinPerth archive reveals people, parties and protests - Included in the display will be issues of OUTinPerth, as well as older Western Australians LFBTI publications including shOUT, The Westside Observer ...

Our sexual health report card released

Our sexual health report card released -  The 2016 Australian Annual Surveillance Report, released today ahead of the ... Gay and bisexual men leading charge in fight against HIV. In some ...

New Zealand venison seen as an ethical choice by European consumers

New Zealand venison seen as an ethical choice by European consumers - Even without spelling it out to them, people will instantly relate New Zealand products to high quality, animal welfare, lots of space - the general image ...

Manuel Springford's te reo Maori efforts recognised at Maori Language Awards

Manuel Springford's te reo Maori efforts recognised at Maori Language Awards - Manuel Springford has won the Individual Achievement award at the Maori Language Commission's Nga Tohu Reo Maori , Maori Language Awards.

High flying language awards

High flying language awards -  Maori Language Commission chair Wayne Ngata says the airline has made a sustained effort over the past decade to increase its use of te reo and ...

Human DNA carries hints of unknown extinct ancestor

Human DNA carries hints of unknown extinct ancestor - These men live in Papua New Guinea, one of four nations making up Melanesia. Some people from their region appear to carry remnant genes from ...

Protesters accused of treason for supporting West Papua

Protesters accused of treason for supporting West Papua - We made this demand because of the many human rights violations, such as violence against the Papuan people , that are committed either by military ...

Is New Zealand's new walking route the best one-day hike in the world?

Is New Zealand's new walking route the best one-day hike in the world? - True, Taranaki didn’t actually star in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings epics (though it did body-double for Mount Fuji in Tom Cruise vehicle The Last Samurai). But its near-perfect cone, diverse habitats and Maori heritage are the stuff of travellers’ – and, particularly, trekkers’ – fantasies.

New Zealand earthquake: strong aftershocks as roads and rivers blocked – live

New Zealand earthquake: strong aftershocks as roads and rivers blocked – live - Sir Mark Solomon of Ngai Tahu, the principal Māori iwi of the southern region of New Zealand , described Oaru bridge as being “snapped in half”.

Iwi trust chairman Roger Pikia under investigation over credit card spending and investments

Iwi trust chairman Roger Pikia under investigation over credit card spending and investments - Roger Pikia, an advisor to Maori King Tuheitia, is at the centre of ... Te Arawa elder Maanu Paul, co-chair of the New Zealand Maori Council, said he ...