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Saturday recap : Aboriginal Community

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Indigenous Drag Queens Are The 'Fabulous' Face Of Resilience - They're born to different mobs, different families, and at different times, but there's one thing that unites the finalists in the Miss First Nation competition: 

The resonances between Indigenous art and images captured by microscopes - Twenty one Indigenous artists from around Australia have created new works for the exhibition that demonstrate a connection between their stories ...

Five Tech4Good charities we're backing to reimagine social inclusion - For the past eight years, Australia's leading arts and social change organisation, BIG hART has been working closely with the Indigenous communities ...

Women of Influence 2018 winner fights for recognition of Indigenous Australians - Asked about the day she read the Uluru statement from the heart in May last year, Megan Davis remembers lots of tears. But mostly she remembers ...

Indigenous gems book passage to Asia for art tour - The National Gallery of Australia and its longstanding indigenous arts partner, Wesfarmers Arts, will announce today a major international touring ...

Kindergarten students flock to Aboriginal languages - Children as young as three will learn Aboriginal languages at kindergarten, with ... Victoria will become the first Australian jurisdiction to fund language ...

Uniting Church's LGBTIQ Group Calls On Churches To Denounce Conversion Therapy - Responding to the report, the Uniting Network said, “We call on all religious organisations in Australia to explicitly state their rejection of LGBT  ...

Drop in Australia HIV sparks call for greater drug roll-out - HIV transmission rates among gay and bisexual men fell by almost a third in the Australian state of ...

Labor senators want schools' 'ethos' preserved in LGBT discrimination law - Pratt said that an LGBT teacher talking in “an ordinary sense about ... The shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, told Guardian Australia that Labor ...

Senate to force debate on LGBT teacher protections before Wentworth byelection - The Senate will debate discrimination protections for LGBT teachers on ... The Greens' LGBTIQ+ spokeswoman, Janet Rice, told Guardian Australia  ...

NZ's Pacific Minister to formalise relationship with Maori -  NZ's Pacific Minister to formalise relationship with Maori ... New Zealand's Minister of Pacific Peoples is driving a move to get Maori and Pasifika to ...

SI's UNGA position on West Papua is a pity:' Governor Juffa - SI's UNGA position on West Papua is a pity:' Governor Juffa ... effort whereby the people of West Papua were handed over to Indonesia in 1969 under ...

A new company aimed at getting Maori products to Chinese consumers is getting ready to kick off - Eleven companies have come together with the help of the Government to create the Hui Maori Collective. Chair Hayden Johnston says the online ...

Māori sidelined in National Party raruraru - New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says the Māori composition of Parliament won't be changed by the ructions in the National Party. Botany MP ...

Drag queen story time event at New Zealand library barraged with hatred - A library in New Zealand has faced a barrage of anti- LGBT messages after holding a drag queen story time event. The Rainbow Story Time event was ...

10% of LGBT Australians are still vulnerable to religious conversion therapy - least 10 organisations promoting the practice in Australia and New Zealand ... That's according to a new report funded by La Trobe University, a joint ...

Push on at Monash University to boost indigenous student numbers - Only 0.39 per cent of its student population that year was indigenous , ... “We were the first university in Australia to set up an indigenous unit, the ...

Aboriginal Millennials in Australia Talk in Their Own Language - In the remote village of Lajamanu, the Indigenous Warlpiri millennials of Australia's Northern Territory have devised a language of their own creation: a ...