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SA Government makes first official agreement with Narungga Nation

SA Government makes first official agreement with Narungga Nation - The South Australia Government has taken significant steps to strengthen the relationship between government and Aboriginal South Australians , with Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Kyam Maher saying that by having a Treaty in South Australia , they will have an unparalleled platform to improve the way ...

Give us federal right to discriminate according to religious beliefs

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Give us federal right to discriminate according to religious beliefs - Churches and religious organisations in Australia have called for a 'Religious Freedom Act' which would enshrine the right of faith groups to hire and fire employees if their ... However, the bishops denied that this would amount to a license to discriminate against LGBT people when hiring and firing. Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

The fraud of Australian parliament's “stolen generations” apology

The fraud of Australian parliament's “stolen generations” apology - Hypocrisy abounded inside Australia's parliamentary great hall this week when about 300 politicians and indigenous representatives gathered for a breakfast event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the former Labor government's “national apology” to the “stolen generations” of Aboriginal children who ...

Marketing firm and Indigenous community team up for bottled water campaign

Marketing firm and Indigenous community team up for bottled water campaign - But a remote Northern Territory Indigenous family and a Sydney marketing firm have teamed up for an ambitious plan to bottle water from an Arnhem Land spring for distribution across Australia . It is one of the latest projects resulting from renewed efforts by Indigenous groups to get their communities off ...

Canberra will never close the gap on indigenous disadvantage

Canberra will never close the gap on indigenous disadvantage - housing, main roads, transport, electricity generation and supply, taxation on Aboriginal lands and other matters ranging from garbage collection to land use and planning. Michael Mansell, Launceston, Tas. Join the anti-guns fight. If I were a high school student or teacher in Australia , I'd be starting a ...

Nations Connect app to bring together Australia's Indigenous services

Nations Connect app to bring together Australia's Indigenous services -  Nations Connect app to bring together Australia's Indigenous services ... Jacob Keed believes he's invented a "one stop shop" for Australians looking to find local Indigenous services. ... Mr Keed said the app would expand as more services and businesses across Australia signed up to be listed on it.

Progress made on Indigenous retention rates masks growing racial divide at schools

Progress made on Indigenous retention rates masks growing racial divide at schools - This month the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Productivity Commission released promising statistics on Indigenous retention rates. The ABS found that while the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who finished school remained well below that of non- Indigenous students, ...

Historic Buthera agreement first step towards Indigenous treaty in South Australia

Historic Buthera agreement first step towards  Indigenous  treaty in South  Australia - This is the first time something like this has been attempted in 230 years in  Australia . People's desires, people's wishes have to be negotiated.” He said a treaty agreement would commit the state government to help with areas such as economic development, as well as giving Narungga people more ...

A second nod to Aboriginal tradition prompts debates over its place

A second nod to Aboriginal tradition prompts debates over its place -  Australia's oldest parliament will pay tribute to its oldest nations with an historic plan to place an Aboriginal message stick in a building teeming with Anglo tradition. ... Smoking ceremony at NSW State Parliament as the Aboriginal Languages Bill is brought to the Legislative Council last October.

We must ban mobiles from school playgrounds to stop cyber bullying

We must ban mobiles from school playgrounds to stop cyber bullying - I made this clear in a submission to the federal inquiry into Australia's cyber bullying laws, which is due to report its findings next month. John Brogden, the chairman of Lifeline Australia , has called for suicide to be declared a national emergency. I would go one step further – this is a national epidemic, ...

The vital lesson from Australia's last mass shooting that Trump's Florida speech missed

The vital lesson from Australia's last mass shooting that Trump's Florida speech missed - Per capita gun ownership in Australia is down by 23 percent from its pre-Port Arthur peak. Many different studies have found evidence that the law reduced Australia's homicide and suicide rates. And since the law's passage, there has not been a single mass shooting in Australia . In recent interviews ...

The fight ain't over': the Sydney Mardi Gras after the marriage vote

The fight ain't over': the Sydney Mardi Gras after the marriage vote - They had barely been put back in the cupboard after celebrations over the passing of Australia's marriage equality law before the LGBT community's attention turned to the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. The theme this year is “40 years of evolution” – a nod to the fact the ...

Christian Schools Australia stands by right to select teachers based on beliefs

Christian Schools Australia stands by right to select teachers based on beliefs - Pro- LGBT organizations, including the rights group Just Equal, have called for the scrapping of laws that give religious individuals and groups the right to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Amnesty International also said there should be no exemptions allowing civil marriage ...

Last year Mudgee's Heath Gay walked from Newcastle to Sydney for the homeless; now he's ...

Last year Mudgee's Heath Gay walked from Newcastle to Sydney for the homeless; now he's ... - Last year Mudgee's Heath Gay walked from Newcastle to Sydney for the homeless; now he's teamed up with Logan Wines to go one step further ... Gay (right) is taking to the streets again in 2018, after a week long walk from Newcastle to Sydney, to raise awareness for the plight of Australia's homeless.

Riot recounts the birth of the Sydney Mardi Gras and the gay rights movement

Riot recounts the birth of the Sydney Mardi Gras and the gay rights movement - On another winter's night last year, Plaister returned to the spot on Oxford Street where the parade began, to see scenes filmed for the ABC telemovie Riot. In the year of Mardi Gras' 40th anniversary, the film follows key figures of Australia's gay and lesbian rights movement during the 1970s.

Australian Politician Who Attacked Gay Marriage Leaves Wife for Lover

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Australian Politician Who Attacked Gay Marriage Leaves Wife for Lover -  Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is world renowned for being a staunch opponent of same-sex marriage. When Australia was considering the legalization of same-sex marriage, Mr. Barnaby fought the move. He stated traditional marriage was a process that held basic principles that ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

Unity of effort a key to lifting Māori economic performance

Unity of effort a key to lifting Māori economic performance - whānau relationships, Māori get much better outcomes across the board.” Nanaia Mahuta noted that the biggest current Māori contribution to the wider economy is Māori earning salaries and wages, and with a young Māori population , this contribution will significantly increase over the next 20 years.

Developing future Māori leaders in land-based industries

Developing future Māori leaders in land-based industries - The programme aims to inspire young Māori to become agribusiness leaders by marketing and promoting land-based career options (sheep and beef, dairy, horticulture, forestry, apiculture, sciences and natural resource management). “ Maori are a younger and fast growing population therefore how ...

Business leader calls for more LGBT inclusion

Business leader calls for more LGBT inclusion - A top business leader says New Zealand needs to do more to promote inclusion of those in the rainbow community in the workplace. It comes on the eve of the LGBTQ Pride Parade in Auckland, which marks the end of the three-week long Pride Festival across the city. Drug manufacturer GSK's New ...

New rules for accompanying tupapaku

New rules for accompanying tupapaku -  Green MP Marama Davidson says changes to the rules around coroners and undertakees will be a huge relief to whanau who want to be with the tupapaku of their loved ones. The Government has agreed to implement all but one of the recommendations made by a Maori affairs select committee inquiry ...