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More support for Look Over the Farm Gate events

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

Serious concerns over impact of rushed NT child protection reforms

Only 19 per cent are placed with Aboriginal relatives or kin. Karina Hawtrey, Senior Solicitor at the National Justice Project, said: “We need child ... View article...

Nominations open for WA Education Awards 2026

We acknowledge the strengths and cultural identities that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students bring to their classrooms and strive to build ... View article...

North Hokianga settlement desperate to save kōiwi

... Māori -led approaches grounded in mātauranga Māori ; and community adaptation toolkits, providing practical resources to help communities across the ... View article...

NSW Aboriginal Land Council halts Closing the Gap participation over land rights fears

The peak body for Aboriginal land rights in NSW has suspended its involvement in key government forums, warning a proposed law could have ... View article...

Global communication researchers gather to explore social change

The event was grounded in te ao Māori and the relationship between tangata whenua and tangata Tiriti, with organisers also offering hybrid access ... View article...

'Extremely concerned': Alliance calls for review of damage to Tasmanian Aboriginal heritage site

The chair of an Tasmanian Indigenous alliance says he is 'extremely concerned' after an Aboriginal heritage site was damaged by a state government ... View article...

Hospital failed Māori patient seeking return of womb intact, HDC finds

Before a hysterectomy, a Māori patient made it clear they wanted their womb back “whole and intact” without “cutting or slicing”, for cultural ... View article...

How distrust in healthcare is fuelling multiple outbreaks across the globe

“Rongomaiwhiti Rīki is a kaupapa born from a desire to foster reo Māori within mainstream competitions,” says coach Tuteauru Maipi. More than 150 ... View article...

The end of Australia's last free river?

... Aboriginal communities, ecosystems and future generations. The real question is whether the region's economy will be organised around care and ... View article...

What needs to be done to tackle child homelessness in Aotearoa?

It also highlighted the disproportionate impacts on Māori and Pacific children, with young people living in severe housing deprivation more likely to ... View article...

Prison watchdog calls for change after Aboriginal woman pepper sprayed during mental ...

A prison watchdog has found systemic racism likely led to an Aboriginal woman's self-harm incident at the Alexander Maconochie Centre being ... View article...

NZ gov't backs Akaroa King Salmon expansion with NZD 1.5m Maori development grant

The New Zealand government has committed NZD 1.5 million ($900,000) from its Maori Development Fund to support expansion plans at Akaroa King  ... View article...

New program giving Aboriginal women leaving custody a 'homeward' chance

Homeward Sisters is a joint initiative of Legal Aid NSW , Homes NSW and Correctives NSW , to remove barriers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander  ... View article...

More than they see - the power behind the misread woman

Like many Aboriginal women, much of my work happens quietly. It happens in the conversations where someone needs encouragement to apply for a role ... View article...

Lowering Māori Injury Rates Put At Risk By Govt's Focus On Culture Wars

WorkSafe latest restructure proposal is putting at risk the organisation's success in lowering serious injuries and deaths among kaimahi Māori . Under ... View article...

Diabetes ravaged his family. Now access to the drugs he credits with saving his life may change

Pharmac proposes removing special access criteria for Māori and Pasifika people with type 2 diabetes to three medicines. View article...

Former NT Minister claims child neglect is being 'hushed up' in Northern Territory ...

She said conversations around child safety, abuse and neglect in NT Aboriginal communities were often "shut down or hushed up" because it's seen by ... View article...

Removing ethnicity criterion for diabetes medicines not evidence based, expert says

... Māori and Pasifika is not evidence-based or clinically driven. ... A study has shown lives and costs have been saved with the introduction of a Special ... View article...

Western Australians reminded to get tested early for blood viruses

Blood-borne viruses remain an ongoing public health issue in Western Australia , with Aboriginal people experiencing disproportionately high rates of ... View article...