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One in 4 Aboriginal males jailed, 8 in 10 remote living do not finish school, one in eight deaths of ... - According to data drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics during the last five years one in 17 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths has been a suicide. However if we disaggregate to the 40 per cent who live below the poverty line I estimate suicide accounts for one in eight deaths.

We all have the potential to develop psychosis - One of the biggest misconceptions about mental health is that you're either well or unwell, but as psychologist Clare Mann explains, we all have the potential to experience some kind of psychotic episode. “It's a question of mental wellness rather than illness,” she says. According to SANE Australia , one ...

Homelessness is increasing in Australia as housing costs rise - They are massively over-represented among the homeless — 2.8% of Australians are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander but they make up 20% of the homeless. However, the number and proportion of homeless Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander continues to decline. In 2016, Aboriginal or Torres Strait ...

Most Australian Indigenous languages came from just one place, research claims - Most Indigenous languages in Australia likely originated from a remote spot in far north Queensland as recently as 4,000 years ago, before slowly spreading across the country, a new study has claimed. The paper, published in the journal Nature on Tuesday, mapped the origins of the Pama-Nyungan ...

Racism evident in justice system: lawyers - There is direct evidence of institutional racism in Australia's criminal justice system, one of the country's most prominent lawyers believes. Fiona McLeod, the outgoing head of the Law Council of Australia , said over-incarceration rates of indigenous Australians pointed to a failure in both imagination and ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

National Geographic editor says decades of coverage was racist - THE iconic publication has admitted to decades of “appalling” racist coverage — including articles which portrayed indigenous Australians as “savages”. ... There was even a full-issue article on Australia that ran in 1916 in which Aboriginal Australians were called “savages” who “rank lowest in ...

Tori Nikolaou's career takes off as she becomes the first female indigenous commercial pilot - In a matter of days she will achieve her dream and follow in her father's footsteps, when she completes her advanced pilot training at the Australian Wings Academy at Coolangatta in Queensland. But perhaps more importantly, she will become Australia's first female indigenous commercial pilot.

Australian lawyers demand justice for all - New Law Council president Morry Bailes says growing numbers of people in the "missing middle" - who do not qualify for legal aid but cannot afford private lawyers - are falling through the cracks of the justice system. Mr Bailes said the "catastrophic" over-incarceration rates of indigenous Australians  ...

Older women, migrants swell the ranks of Australia's homeless -  The number of people who are homeless in Australia has soared by almost 15 per cent, with newly released Census data showing people living in “severely” overcrowded dwellings are the greatest contributors to this increase. More than 116,400 Australians were homeless on Census night in 2016 ...

Capitalism, Australian Identity and The Threat to Unity - It's the creed behind the slave plantations of the American South, and the squattocracy of early colonial Australia . It's also why the votes of older , privileged Australians – and so-called “aspirationals” – give preference to profit, property, inheritance, tax minimisation and private school connections.

How to report hate crime anonymously in South Africa - He said that a study done by the organisation in 2016 revealed that 44% of LGBTI people had experienced some form of discrimination or hate crime and that 88% of those victims did not report crimes committed against them. This meant that the majority of people from the LGBTI community did not ...

Same-sex couples can now adopt everywhere in Australia! - She continued: “Now that marriage equality has passed nationally, it's important we bring the laws in every state in line with modern community values and remove every last stain of discrimination against LGBTI people from the statute books across this country. Dale Wakefield – Minister for Territory ...

Annual Report 2017 on the List of actions to advance LGBTI equality - The European Commission published in December 2015 the List of Actions to Advance LGBTI Equality to move LGBTI equality forward. The Council adopted the first ever conclusions on LGBTI equality in June 2016 requiring the Commission to annually report on the implementation of the list of actions.

Why Kansas isn't as homophobic as you might think - When people in the rest of the world hear 'Kansas', their first thoughts are likely of Dorothy and Toto. This, of course, is thanks to the amazing staying power of a movie that came out in 1939. I'm grateful to 'The Wizard of Oz because otherwise, people might not think of Kansas at all. Or they would think of ...

It may seem like LGBT rights aren't important to Putin – but if you look closer, you'll see they're ... - Ksenia Sobchak, the only oppositional candidate to openly support LGBT rights in Russia, called the video homophobic : “To turn LGBT people into a threat in a homophobic country is not a joke. It once again fuels discrimination of the minority”. The reality of such propaganda is indeed horrific. Last week ...

Kick It Out 'very worried' by rise in hate crime - When there is a rise of homophobia , a rise of anti-Semitism and a rise of racism, you see that all reflected in football." Kick It Out found that racism was the most common form of discrimination in this year's mid-term report, followed by HBT ( homophobia , biphobia and transphobia) and anti-Semitism.

Beatles photobomb: Iconic photos hides hilarious secret - The Beatles are one of the most recognised bands of all time. You would be hard pressed to find someone who hadn't heard of them or didn't know at least one of their songs. Their Abbey Road album cover is probably the image that comes to mind when most people think of the band and it turns out this ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

Auckland physicist on his lunch with the late Stephen Hawking - The iconic British physicist was revered by those in his field, including a New Zealand physicist who actually met the man himself. ... "Stephen... would have to form words on a computer, so the conversation would kind of ping between several people and he'd chime in with something that had happened ...