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New poll shows no path to power for National without Opportunity

Labour would be able to govern with or without Te Pāti Māori winning a seat and creating an overhang. National leader Christopher Luxon has ... View article...

Megan Davis warns Indigenous children are worse off under Albanese government

The child welfare crisis in Western Australia shows the Albanese government's post-voice pivot to Indigenous economic empowerment matters little ... View article...

Clever, cool and quirky, is this New Zealand's most underrated city?

I've come to Dunedin in the depths of winter for Matariki, the Maori New Year, heralded by the rising of its namesake star cluster. A national ... View article...

'Housing is a health issue': WA supreme court decision boosts public housing rights

Advocates are claiming a significant win for Western Australia's public housing tenants after a Supreme Court ruling last week. View article...

Biosecurity plans now essential for LPA accreditation

We acknowledge the traditional Aboriginal Owners of Country throughout Victoria, their ongoing connection to this land and we pay our respects to ... View article...

Funding secured for Victorian Aboriginal community-controlled organisation governance training

Community-designed training for leadership and confident decision-making within Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations will continue in ... View article...

How a Human Rights Act exemption removes essential protections for people in Queensland prisons

We pay our respect to Elders past and present. This land always was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land. Sovereignty ... View article...

Māori Nursing Leader Kerri Nuku Sounds Alarm Over Health Workforce Crisis and Growing ...

One of Aotearoa's leading Māori nursing advocates, Kerri Nuku, is continuing to challenge the Government over mounting pressure on the country's ... View article...

Youth advocates urge rangatahi to vote as homelessness concerns grow

Research by the Coalition to End Women's Homelessness found Wāhine Māori make up over 50 percent of the total homeless population and account for at ... View article...

Roger Cook defends Don Punch's silence on Port Hedland crisis

West Australian Premier Roger Cook has defended the silence of his Aboriginal Affairs Minister on the crisis engulfing the Indigenous community in ... View article...

Ta Rē Moriori Revival Reveals Rēkohu's True History

Rēkohu - the Chatham Islands in English, Wharekauri in te reo Māori - is a small corner of Aotearoa New Zealand, 800 kilometres east of the South ... View article...

Study backs wider glucose monitors for type 2 diabetes

" Māori , Pacific, and Indian communities are disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes and its complications, and we are seeing an earlier ... View article...

Draft submission on strengthening Australia's legislative response to modern slavery in supply chains

We welcome the Australian Government's commitment to strengthen its modern slavery laws, including through the introduction of a new criminal ... View article...

Waikato tuberculosis cases expose gaps in contact tracing

Better contact tracing is needed to stop the spread of a rare but potentially deadly disease, with Māori especially at risk, a new study has ... View article...

Residents fight eviction from Aboriginal housing in Darwin

Hundreds of Aboriginal people, including many children, chronic disease patients and DV survivors are facing forced relocation from Yilli Short ... View article...

One Candidate, One Pint: Labour's Te Pūoho Katene wants the mandate to carry the mana ...

'In election time when things are getting dirty and acerbic, people forget that our communities, particularly Māori communities, vote on hope. View article...

Your language is training AI. Are you being paid?

Whisper, an open-source speech recognition model, had been trained on extensive recordings of Māori and Hawaiian speech collected from those language ... View article...

Wet cough 'normalisation' puts kids at risk

The widespread perception that chronic wet cough is “normal” in Aboriginal children is contributing to delayed diagnosis and treatment of potentially ... View article...

Australian-First Eating Disorder Tool Launches in Kimberley

Western Australia is leading the nation with the launch of Australia's first culturally grounded eating disorder screening tool for Aboriginal young people in the Kimberley. View article...

Sarjeant Happenings: Māori Futures exhibition brings together 15 diverse artists in unity of purpose

If you're looking for positive visions to help focus on the future, I recommend the dynamic space contemporary Māori art offers in our galleries. View article...