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How do polar bears respond to climate change, subsistence hunting?

How do polar bears respond to climate change, subsistence hunting? -  Indigenous people throughout the Arctic harvest polar bears each year. How that activity? combined with climate change over the long term ? will ...

The small town trying to shift spending from punishment to prevention

The small town trying to shift spending from punishment to prevention - Now, in the spirit of that healing, a three-year research project led by Dr Jill Guthrie at the Australian National University's centre for Indigenous studies ...

Funding for communities, not prisons: the promise of justice reinvestment

Funding for communities, not prisons: the promise of justice reinvestment - An Indigenous youth walks past a mural of the Rainbow Serpent in the NSW ... sectors to establish the first major justice reinvestment trial in Australia .

Teenager driven to improve educational outcomes of Indigenous Australians

Teenager driven to improve educational outcomes of Indigenous Australians - For Aboriginal teenager Tarni Rigney, looking at the education outcomes for Indigenous Australians is distressing. "If you look at the literacy and ...

Australia failing on multiple human rights fronts

Australia failing on multiple human rights fronts -  Aboriginal children are 24 times more likely to be detained than non- indigenous Australian children, Amnesty International said Wednesday ...

Ceduna's bid to keep its Indigenous youth out of jail

Ceduna's bid to keep its Indigenous youth out of jail - Just 2.4% of Australia's population are Indigenous but more than 28% of the country's prison population is Aboriginal . The work of Krieg and others in ...

Taiwan Same-Sex Marriage Activists Send a Heartwarming Message to Families with LGBTQ Kids ...

Taiwan Same-Sex Marriage Activists Send a Heartwarming Message to Families with LGBTQ Kids ... - The Tongzhi LGBTI Hotline takes its name from the Mandarin word for “comrade,” which the queer community has turned into a slang word for a gay ...

Suicide rate research 'adds weight' to same sex marriage push

Suicide rate research 'adds weight' to same sex marriage push -  AUSTRALIAN politicians pushing for marriage equality have welcomed new research which shows legalising same sex marriage could reduce ...

Work and income are the only path to Indigenous health

Work and income are the only path to Indigenous health - Indigenous Australians are no different from any other people across the world. The only way we'll see Indigenous poverty and disadvantage ...

It's More Than Just The Small Island Under Australia

It's More Than Just The Small Island Under Australia -  New Zealand : It's More Than Just The Small Island Under Australia ... New Zealand was brought to the mainstream for people around the world to ...

Rotorua gets serious on Smokefree 2025

Rotorua gets serious on Smokefree 2025 - A Rotorua Maori public health advocate is backing a move to gradually increase the ... She says more than 40 percent of Maori women still smoke.

Little defends Maori Party scrutiny

Little defends Maori Party scrutiny - Andrew Little says Labour's election year emphasis on housing, education and jobs are the kaupa its Maori members say is important to them.

Seeking budding Māori digital entrepreneurs

Seeking budding Māori digital entrepreneurs - DIGMYIDEA, which was first held in 2015, aims to inspire more Māori to engage in the digital economy by helping emerging Māori innovators turn their ...

The state of this gender-diverse nation

The state of this gender-diverse nation - Today's panelists are Sam Orchard, trans man, comic book artist, designer and activist; Emmy Rākete, Māori trans woman and No Pride in Prisons ...

Little knowledge dangerous on kaupapa Maori

Little knowledge dangerous on kaupapa Maori -  The Labour Party leader drew cries of outrage by questioning whether the Maori Party could hold itself up as a kaupapa Maori party when it repeatedly ...

Solomon Islands government warned of Asian invasion

Solomon Islands government warned of Asian invasion - Mr Doromuala revealed that there were about 11 reserved businesses for indigenous people and his ministry would be expanding the list by adding ...

Who do sexuality and gender labels matter to?

Who do sexuality and gender labels matter to? - Though I'm a member of the LGBTQIA community, I seldom go to the ... LGBT was used by both the community and the media, entering the ... New Zealand and we have a chance to educate with mainstream visibility.

How does Trump affect Brexit?

How does Trump affect Brexit ? - Theresa May has succeeded in turning Brexit , at least at this point, into an exercise to be managed “as best we can”. There is no organised opposition ...

The Block' to house 500 university students in 16-storey tower as part of new plans

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The Block' to house 500 university students in 16-storey tower as part of new plans - The Aboriginal Housing Company has lodged an application with the Department of Planning to increase the size of a development opposite Redfern station. Plans approved in 2012 paved the way for a six-storey, mixed-use building to house about 150 students in 42 units. But the development would increase to 16 storeys and include more than 500 bedrooms under the new proposal.

Ancient history should qualify area as national park, groups say

Ancient history should qualify area as national park, groups say - Thirty-five new sites of Aboriginal heritage significance have been discovered on Tasmania's Tarkine coastline, renewing calls for the area to be ...