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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...

Foxes, feral cats spotted in first camera survey of Mulupirti springs

The first camera survey of a sacred Aboriginal site in Western Australia's Kimberley region has detected a "concerning number" of feral cats and ... View article...

Rottnest Island bus stop redevelopment ceased permanently after bones found

Six months after Aboriginal human remains were found at the site, authorities have officially put an end to the works. View article...

Across the Tasman: Push for Western Sydney Marae as Māori Community Grows

More than 160,000 Māori are estimated to now call Australia home, creating one of the largest Māori communities outside Aotearoa and raising ... View article...

Māori duo artists IA, give voice to lost babies in new waiata

Released just ahead of 'Baby Loss Awareness Week,' a new waiata by indigenous-soul duo IA, is breaking years of silence surrounding paternal baby ... View article...

Do young people understand the power of the youth vote?

Rhiannon Te Paea says says voting is about being a good ancestor, and encourages rangatahi to "make rangatira decisions." Supplied / Ngā Tauira Māori . View article...

New program launched supporting Aboriginal families in Bunbury

A new Aboriginal -led program providing culturally safe, long-term support for mothers and young children in the Bunbury region has been officially ... View article...

Finding connections between the Spirited Away world and te ao Māori

The Oscar winning animated film is set to be dubbed in te reo Māori and released in December. View article...

2026 Australian Mental Health Prize winners announced

This year's winners are Dr Elizabeth McEntyre, a researcher and social worker advancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health; Michael ... View article...

British musuem returns 125-year-old kahu kiwi to Marlborough iwi

"He wasn't supposed to serve Māori who lived within the Wairau Pā, because we were associated to another road board, we had to go to Picton Hospital, ... View article...

Pressure grows for inquest into Port Hedland triple murder

The federal Aboriginal minister has backed a West Australian grandmother's pleas for a coronial inquest into the deaths of her three grandchildren ... View article...

Research Finds Ethnic Minorities Trust Police Less

... Māori and Black Americans. The study found both minorities had less trust in the police compared to participants who self-identified as either ... View article...

Meningococcal disease reported in Western Australia

... Aboriginal children aged from six weeks to 12 months old. The MenB vaccine is free for all Aboriginal children aged up to two years old. Both ... View article...