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Australia's 'rent boys': Male prostitution is 'everywhere', sex industry boss says

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Australia's 'rent boys': Male prostitution is 'everywhere', sex industry boss says  - He said his first job as a “rent boy” — a term used to describe male sex workers who advertise their services on gay escort sites — was “a bit daunting but fairly straightforward”.

Gay Liberal Senator Dean Smith: “Find place amongst those 12000 refugees for LGBT people”

Gay Liberal Senator Dean Smith: “Find place amongst those 12000 refugees for LGBT people”   - Western Australia Liberal Senator Dean Smith has said he would ask Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to consider persecuted LGBTI people in ...

How This Music Academy Teaches Indigenous Kids' To Walk In Two Worlds'

How This Music Academy Teaches Indigenous Kids' To Walk In Two Worlds'  - Based at Roebourne District High School in Western Australia , the academy has a progressive approach to education for indigenous kids, as you see ...

Tony Abbott should follow Paul Keating's example and contribute something useful to public life

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Tony Abbott should follow Paul Keating's example and contribute something useful to public life  -  An obvious project would be to ensure the referendum to change the constitution to acknowledge the ancient cultures of Australia's Indigenous people ...

Heart of darkness: Melbourne University's racist professors

Heart of darkness: Melbourne University's racist professors  - Former head of anatomy and influential surgeon, Professor Berry, collected 400 Aboriginal corpses, some stolen from traditional graves, for experiments. They were hidden for decades and only rediscovered in 2003.

All victims of abuse sanctioned by the state deserve the same right to compensation

All victims of abuse sanctioned by the state deserve the same right to compensation  - It found incalculable harm had been done to Indigenous children "forcibly ... since the very first days of the European occupation of Australia ".

School transforms a generation by embedding Indigenous culture into its curriculum

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School transforms a generation by embedding Indigenous culture into its curriculum   - School transforms a generation by embedding Indigenous culture into its ... a generation" and become a model for other schools around Australia .

Indigenous children taught to read in own languages first

Indigenous children taught to read in own languages first   -  Indigenous children taught to read in own languages first ... Such is the case in Wadeye, the largest Aboriginal town in Australia , set beside the ...

Huge variations in rate of surgeries, mental treatments across Australia

Huge variations in rate of surgeries, mental treatments across Australia  -  Older people were also far more likely to be prescribed with anti-depressants, with 400,000 of 15 million prescriptions given to children and young ...

Coal can help reduce climate change, says Minerals Council of Australia

Coal can help reduce climate change, says Minerals Council of Australia  - Evans said the coal industry was “necessary” to Australia and could help get people out of poverty . But Ian Dunlop, a former head of the Australian  ...

Indigenous Groups Boycott People's Climate March

 Indigenous Groups Boycott People's Climate March   - In a statement released on Facebook last night, the groups expressed concern that their inclusion in the march was a tokenistic gesture, and that there had not been sincere attempts to build a relationship between the organisers of the climate march the Aboriginal community in Sydney.

Powerful' Noongar letters offer glimpse into Aboriginal history

Powerful' Noongar letters offer glimpse into Aboriginal history   - Letters by Noongar people pleading for the return of their stolen children or requesting access to the old age pension after a lifetime's work will come ...

New educational resource to promote LGBT diversity in Australian schools

New educational resource to promote LGBT diversity in Australian schools   - Targeted at Year 7 and 8 students (12/13 years olds), All of US is the first resource of its kind to be launched and funded by the Australian federal ...

More homeless in NZ seeking beds

More homeless in NZ seeking beds  - There is a shortage of emergency accommodation across New Zealand , including Dunedin, and the number of homeless people visiting the Citizens ...

ACC win for schizophrenia sufferer

ACC win for schizophrenia sufferer  - If people have a traumatic brain injury in their past and they've gone on to ... "The judge was also able to consider new evidence not available at the ... for independent allowance currently approved by ACC in New Zealand ," he said.

Thousands march in Australia, New Zealand, Philippines for climate change action

Thousands march in Australia, New Zealand , Philippines for climate change action  -  To truly address climate change, we need to address the economic policies that keep our people poor and without the capacity to face increased ...

New Zealand obesity campaigner quits over zero progress

New Zealand obesity campaigner quits over zero progress  - Forty-six percent of New Zealand's indigenous population, the Maori , are obese, as are 66 percent of Pacific Islanders resident in New Zealand .

Maori reclaiming values to address child abuse

Maori reclaiming values to address child abuse  - A Stuff data investigation has found at least 204 children, aged 0-14, have died as a result of neglect, abuse, or maltreatment in New Zealand since ...

Maori success in education calls for celebration

Maori success in education calls for celebration  -  Maori success in education is being celebrated as new research shows more ... The findings are from the Graduate Longitudinal Study New Zealand , ...

Bougainville leader says people will not accept PNG cuts

Bougainville leader says people will not accept PNG cuts  - The president of the autonomous Bougainville Government says the people are angry at cuts to the region's allocations from the Papua New Guinea ...