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How do we end domestic violence? Stop animal abuse

How do we end domestic violence ? Stop animal abuse - On White Ribbon Day in November every year, we as a nation condemn domestic violence — one in three Australian women has experienced ...

Doctors association refuses to back euthanasia in Australia

Doctors association refuses to back euthanasia in Australia - After surveying its members the Australian Medical Association has reaffirmed its opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide . “Doctors should not ...

The ten things Australia needs to do to improve health

The ten things Australia needs to do to improve health - A collaboration of Australia's leading scientists, clinicians and health ... Heart disease is Australia's single largest cause of death , and yet an estimated ...

Record indigenous incarceration rates could be avoided with early clinical assessment ...

Record indigenous incarceration rates could be avoided with early clinical assessment ... - Leading experts in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) believe Australia's record rates of Indigenous incarceration could be dramatically reduced ...

How Indigenous people are still homeless in modern Australia

How Indigenous people are still homeless in modern Australia - Without anywhere that is home, Indigenous people have been without a physical space to reinvent themselves and their culture in modern Australia .

Australia-Indigenous Violence

Australia - Indigenous Violence -  Aboriginal traditional dancers carrying clap sticks and spears and with faces painted white with clay have traveled from ...

Ian 'Dicko' Dickson admits he broke his sobriety filming First Contact after saying Aboriginals ...

Ian 'Dicko' Dickson admits he broke his sobriety filming First Contact after saying Aboriginals ... - Shocked: The controversial Australian Idol judge said living the life of some Aboriginal people in Australia was an experience so confronting he could ...

Australia Is About to Move 6 Feet Closer to Asia

Australia Is About to Move 6 Feet Closer to Asia - Coincidentally, the Cape York Peninsula is also where Europeans first met Aboriginal Australians in 1606. The resulting battle was a sad sign of things ...

Fantastic Beasts actor Ezra Miller says Harry Potter helped him cope with homophobic bullying

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Fantastic Beasts actor Ezra Miller says Harry Potter helped him cope with homophobic bullying - Fantastic Beasts actor Ezra Miller was bullied when he was kid, and it turns out his new role has brought up some old emotions. The queer 24-year-old ...

London tube riders say no to homophobia in viral video

London tube riders say no to homophobia in viral video - For the ' Homophobia Social Experiment' Dein enlisted the help of a two friends to play the part of an affectionate gay couple. He in turn would play a ...

Aborigines fight violence outside Australia's Parliament

Aborigines fight violence outside Australia's Parliament -  Aborigines fight violence outside Australia's Parliament Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (wearing orange tie at center left) receives ...

Australia's first Indigenous Accelerator

Australia's first Indigenous Accelerator - The program is in partnership with Slingshot, offered by Barayamal, a new not-for-profit business, which will run Australia's first Indigenous accelerator ...

Aborigines dance outside Australia's parliament to say 'No More' to domestic violence

Aborigines dance outside Australia's parliament to say 'No More' to domestic violence -  Australia aborigines Aboriginal performers wearing traditional ceremonial costume campaign outside the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on ...

First Contact show sees David Oldfield weep with Aboriginal elder, but say the culture 'should have ...

First Contact show sees David Oldfield weep with Aboriginal elder, but say the culture 'should have - Oldfield, 58, of Belrose, was one of six celebrities taken to parts of indigenous Australia for the new series of SBS's First Contact, which begins ...

Australia domestic violence: Aboriginal dancers highlight problem

Australia domestic violence: Aboriginal dancers highlight problem -  Aboriginal dancers travelled across Australia to highlight the "horrifying" levels of domestic violence in Outback indigenous communities. Dancers from ...

If there's 30 black men and me, I'm frightened'

If there's 30 black men and me, I'm frightened' - plunged into a 28-day journey into the heart of Aboriginal Australia . ... journalist Ray Martin revealing Australians will be shocked and appalled by ...

The birth of New Zealand's binge drinking

The birth of New Zealand's binge drinking - Naturally, that freaked a lot of people out. So much so, half of the New Zealand population wanted alcohol completely banned in the early 1900s.

New communities changing the religious landscape of the south

New communities changing the religious landscape of the south -  People in their 30s and 40s is a demographic we are missing out on [with New Zealand born people ]. "It's having quite an effect on the people who ...

Māori prison population 'major tragedy'

Māori prison population 'major tragedy' - Kelvin Davis says the fact that our prison population is now close to ten ... “Te Mana o Ngapuhi Kowhao Rau is based around the Māori worldview…

New Zealand Defence Force praises efforts of Takahanga Marae

New Zealand Defence Force praises efforts of Takahanga Marae - Kaikōura Māori have been praised for their tireless efforts following the earthquake which forced many locals to evacuate. New Zealand Defence ...

Prayers for Māori King ahead of kidney transplant

Prayers for Māori King ahead of kidney transplant - The Kāhui Wairua, a group of the Māori King's spirtual advisors, has performed prayers over the Māori monarch and his son Korotangi before the pair ...

Exploring Māori tradition

Exploring Māori tradition - A University of Waikato student is looking at why certain Māori traditions ... Health Research Council of New Zealand summer studentship, and got it.

Dancer pumps up Krump fitness

Dancer pumps up Krump fitness - Krump is one of the fastest growing high-intensity forms of dance in New Zealand . The dance which was first introduced to South Auckland dancer ...

Maori Land Court job losses must be delayed

Maori Land Court job losses must be delayed -