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Councillor 'ashamed' to sing Māori version of national anthem fails to attend meeting to apologise - But Murray Chong, who was on his way to Wellington when the New ... New Plymouth councillor labels Māori version of national anthem a tune he is ... same way about the Māori version of God Defend New Zealand , Holdom said.

Māori delegation to Alaska: It's great to be Native -  Māori delegates composed a haka -- or traditional Māori dance -- and gifted it to Southcentral Foundation at the organization's annual Gathering event ...

Car smoking ban puts Māori mums in spotlight - A Māori public health researcher says outlawing smoking in cars with children carries considerable risk for Māori and especially Māori women.

Providing a Māori perspective on wellbeing -  Māori have their own understanding of intergenerational wellbeing that draws on cultural values, beliefs, social norms and indigenous knowledge”, ...

Reviving the ancient Arabana language - It's estimated there were originally 250 Indigenous languages in Australia , but less than half of these are still spoken. Of these about 90% are ...

Barometer shows that support for reconciliation is growing, but there's more to be done -  Australians ' support reconciliation and want Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to have a say in their own affairs, and this support is ...

Meet the Indigenous Australian putting boab beer on your must-drink list - As a child growing up in Broome in Western Australia , Robert Dann collected boab nuts for his mum to cook. Now the entrepreneur has created ...

Indigenous people 'having a say' supported by 95% of Australians - An overwhelming majority of Australians support Indigenous people having a say in matters that affect them, according to a new survey about ...

A wild, rockin' ride from city pubs to outback Australia - Musical theatre has been fertile ground for Indigenous artists over the past decade, with our main stages hosting everything from livewire cabaret to ...

Our social security system hurts women with young children - The leading researcher in Australia on social security and human rights, ... It targets Australia's Indigenous people in a way which is clearly racist.

West Virginia Republican compares LGBTI people to the Ku Klux Klan - Eric Porterfield. A West Virginia state representative compared the LGBTI community to racist hate group, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

Why India's Stonewall may be just around the corner - Right now things are quiet for LGBTI people in India. But anything could happen. A lot of things happen in India because of political instigation.

Indigenous, Māori stars excited to showcase cultures - Indigenous veteran Will Chambers says Friday night's first All-Stars match against NZ Māori has special significance due to the clash of cultures.

ICES to create awareness on LGBTI equality in south Asia - South Asia including Sri Lanka, several LGBT human rights issues are at a “tipping point” at which legal and/or social change could soon be possibl ...

Same-sex marriage laws an ambush: Perth Christian school principal - The major political parties backed the removal of religious exemptions that allowed faith-based schools to turn away LGBTI students, but negotiations ...

How Maori clash can inspire Indigenous stars to influence change - However, the Maori population face similar issues to Indigenous Australians, such as higher unemployment, greater rates of imprisonment, poorer ...

Indonesia police admit using snake to terrorize Papuan man - Police and military have carried out a sweeping crackdown on independence supporters after rebel fighters in December killed 19 people working on ...

Smoking in cars to be banned - Almost a decade after the Māori Affairs select committee inquiry into tobacco control asked for a ban on smoking in cars carrying children, the ...

Government in danger of breaching Treaty of Waitangi - Right to Life fully supports the principles of the Treaty and believe that we all have a responsibility to ensure that the Treaty rights of Maori are upheld.

Art market alongside Te Matatini - Visitors to Te Matatini later this month can find activities beyond kapa haka to slake their thirst for all things Māori . The popular Toi Māori Art Market will ...

Calming influence' Blair to lead Maori - NZ Maori coach Stacey Jones has elected Adam Blair to lead his side and says Kalyn Ponga may spend time at fullback as well as five-eighth.

Poland 38th best place to live in Europe if you are gay. Norway & Finland the best! - Rainbow Europe brings together both the legal index of LGBTI equality based on their Rainbow Europe Map and an overview of the social climate for ...

Let's take pride in LGBT rights but be aware of forces eager to strip them back - Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) Europe has ranked Scotland among the top two countries in Europe for LGBTI equality every year since 2015.

Inside Hillsong Church where LGBTQ worshippers are welcome but Chris Pratt and Justin Bieber ... - She says she is 'absolutely not anti- LGBT ' and has several gay friends but she acknowledges that Hillsong – an ... The church was founded in Australia in 1983, but with help from the 'hipster' pastor Carl Lentz, Hillsong reports that ...

Same-sex marriage laws an ambush: Perth Christian school principal - Federal MPs are using the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia to justify a “systematic dismantling” of religious rights, the principal of a Perth ...

Regular checks key to safety as risks of dabigatran show up - For patients identifying as Māori , the likelihood of a haemorrhagic event ... To find the following older stories from New Zealand Doctor go to 'Archive ...

Māori land reforms moving back on track - Why wouldn't the Government help owners of communally owned Māori ... The ownership of Māori land, which covers 5.5 per cent of New Zealand's  ...

More support needed to reach nursing targets - More support needed to reach 2025 Pacific and Maori nursing targets ... Pacific nurses at Whitireia than any other nursing school in New Zealand , ...

The $9 billion iwi empire: Māori groups' assets grow, despite slowdown - These iwi are playing a more and more important role in the New Zealand economy, but their successes and strategies are not reported on often ...

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ParentsNext is “manifestly inconsistent with Australia's human rights”, Commision says - The Commision believes that ParentsNext has “disproportionately impacted women and Indigenous Australians ”, raising “serious concerns about the ...

Intergenerational trauma and poverty behind spate of young Indigenous suicides - A spate of suicides among young Aboriginal people in Western Australia's northernmost region was shaped by the crushing effect of intergenerational ...

If there is no political will...we'll be back here again in another 10 years' - Western Australian Coroner Ros Fogliani investigated the cause of death of 13 Aboriginal children and young people aged between 10 and 23 years ...

Indigenous leaders call for swift response on Indigenous child suicides report -  Indigenous leaders have called for rapid action on recommendations from an inquest into the deaths of 13 Indigenous youths in Western Australia .

Tales from crocodile island - The 45-year-old Aboriginal Australian woman, at the fag end of her trip to Chennai, maintains a veneer of seriousness until she is asked to describe ...

Unearthing new ideas for a career in archaeology - Since joining the Australian Museum as a volunteer in 1996, she has ... “Where Aboriginal heritage is concerned, consulting archaeologists help to ...

It's not LGBTI people who need to change – it's our laws' - Writing for the Star Observer, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews champions the state's Australian-first ban on gay conversion therapy.

Major supermarket chain selling rainbow roses to help homeless LGBTI youth -  Morrisons UK supermarket chain Morrisons are helping people celebrate Valentine's Day and help LGBTI young people with these rainbow ...

Australians demand protection against LGBTI discrimination in schools - Australians will gather in Melbourne on Saturday (9 February) to demand an end to discrimination of LGBTI staff and students in schools. The Liberal ...

15 great gay movies you may have missed (NSFW) - recent years, Hollywood has made a concerted effort to be more inclusive and diverse. In fact, 2018 saw a record high number (8.8%) of LGBTI  ...

Waitangi isn't our national day, it's our grievance day - Traditionally, of course, the place to judge a government is at the polling booth. She also forgot most of the country isn't Māori . Most of this country is ...

Helping Take Māori Culture To The World - The Haka Experience, a Māori Performing Arts group, are spreading Māori culture and traditional values throughout New Zealand and around the ...

Lack of Māori history at school made my childhood difficult - Petition reignites debate over teaching New Zealand's colonial history in schools. The devastating effects of illegal land confiscations and the tactics ...

NZ's changing race relations - But the declaration of New Zealand being "one people" is made in the context of what the newspaper sees as a history of disadvantage for Maori , ...

Festival organisers apologise for depiction of Native Americans - in the past and even now- so I'm pleased we've had a kōrero, and more is needed in New Zealand I suspect," says festival organiser Bruce Lomas.

NZDF Celebrates 25 Years of Open Lgbt+ Service - The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF), named in 2014 the world's most inclusive military, is about to begin a year celebrating Pride 25, marking 25 ...

Adelaide's Indigenous gallery out of the starting blocks - The SA Government has begun consulting with South Australian Aboriginal communities and cultural institutions “to inform the design of its mooted ...

A third of remote Aboriginal work-for-the-dole participants say community worse off - There are about 35,000 CDP participants in Australia and 83% are Indigenous . As a condition of income support, remote area participants must ...

Bodies found in flood waters to be treated as Indigenous deaths in custody - According to The Guardian's Deaths Inside: Indigenous Australian deaths in custody database, more than 400 Indigenous people have died in police ...

Time to listen to Aboriginal voices - In his speech in Perth last week, BHP CEO Andrew McKenzie talked of time he had spent with Aboriginal people in the Pilbara and across Australia .

Little bit more listening will go a long way towards solving Australia's 'shared problem' - The recognition of Indigenous Australians is one of those issues that appears to have people stuck - so perhaps some “listening” would go a long way ...

Australia failing to close the gap on injuries to Indigenous children, study finds -  Indigenous children are almost twice as likely as non- Indigenous children to suffer unintentional injury – and the situation hasn't improved for more ...

Banning gay 'conversion' isn't enough - What they really are is a most personal form of torture, a cruel practice that perpetuates the idea that LGBTI people are in some way broken.” Victoria's ...

LGBTI mental health under the spotlight in MAD Pride concert at Mardi Gras - Queer artists performers are set to open up about LGBTI mental health as part of the MAD Pride concert during this year's Mardi Gras. The Movement ...

Better supporting LGBTI people in a crisis - More than 71 per cent of LGBTI Australians did not reach out to services during their most recent crisis. Why is this?

Largest mental health trial in English schools will not address LGBTI issues - A major UK government trial to boost youth wellbeing will not offer targeted support for LGBTI young people. Marking Children's Mental Health Week, ...

Māori Wardens want more recognition - And they carry out roles that support other more recognised organisations like the New Zealand Police, like drug and alcohol abuse, suicide ...

The Treaty of Waitangi and its influence on identity politics in New Zealand - At its peak in the 1860s, the New Zealand wars required 10,000 British regulars to subdue skilled and innovative Māori warriors (who established the ...

$6b treaty settlements can't be used to fix Māori social issues, experts say - Annual to Waitangi Day is the raising of Māori issues and New Zealand's political leaders standing on the treaty grounds to extol their Māori policies.

New research addresses ' Māori underachievement' in literacy - In New Zealand , typically we've had an approach in primary schools where ... Derby's study involved Māori children who attended a dual language ...

The Irish man who is partly responsible for New Zealand's annual public holiday - Waitangi Day was made a public holiday in New Zealand in 1974, though commemorations of the ... a British governor, to consider Māori ownership of their lands and other properties, and to give Māori the rights of British subjects.

Digging into the roots of New Zealand's golden opportunity - Scientists and Māori agribusiness team up to learn about mānuka DNA ... As the mānuka gold rush continues to soar, so does New Zealand's honey ...

Why this stretch of Australian Outback delivers such a great hiking adventure - was in South Australia doing the Arkaba Walk – one of the newest Great Walks of Australia – learning about the aboriginals ' explanation for Wilpena ...

Aboriginal health workers leaving the NT industry, despite high Indigenous population - That is incredibly important in a place like the Territory, which has the biggest proportion of Indigenous people per capita in Australia and many ...

Stacey Porter vows Australian softball team will 'do damage' against old foes USA at Tokyo 2020 ... -  Australia's most experienced softball star Stacey Porter is aiming to ... good paths set up with Softball Australia with an Indigenous sports program and ...

Nigel Scullion launches probe into 'serious allegations' about Northern Land Council - One of Australia's most powerful indigenous land councils is in turmoil. The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister has launched an investigation into ...

Banks forced to overhaul how they treat Indigenous customers in remote and regional areas -  Australia's biggest banks will be forced to overhaul how they treat ... processes for identifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander customers in line ...

Aboriginal health workers leaving the NT industry, despite high Indigenous population - That is incredibly important in a place like the Territory, which has the biggest proportion of Indigenous people per capita in Australia and many ...

What we want to hear in the State of the Union Address: Restoring America's global human rights ... - These days, many Americans have a more expansive view of global human rights, including protections for women and girls, and LGBTI people, and ...

Argentina looking to poach LGBTI tourists from Brazil - When Jair Bolsonaro was elected as president of Brazil, it sent shockwaves through the country's LGBTI community. Same-sex couples rushed to ...

Brian Tamaki signals political return: 'There's a new breed of Māori rising up' - Bishop Brian Tamaki has signalled a political return ahead of a Waitangi Day sermon in which he warned change was coming and how he was the ...

A successful quit-smoking program for young Māori women - Our work for New Zealand's Ministry of Health around smoking cessation in Māori women has given us a significant opportunity to make an impact on ...

Better supporting LGBTI people in a crisis -  But for LGBTI people, this is only one of many barriers faced in accessing crisis ... These crisis services need to work with LGBTI health and community ...

This Year's Mumbai Pride Saw Its Biggest Turnout Yet, and With No Danger of Arrest - Pride celebration he saw not one person in a mask. “Not only activists, but everyone at the parade, they could say they were LGBTI without any fear,” ...

Bubble of Māori docs changing profession - Chair David Tipene-Leach says it was a celebration of how far Māori ... in the numbers required to address the specific needs of the Māori population .

Ardern defends govt track on Māori prison numbers - Only about 15 percent of the total population of New Zealand are Māori . "Unfortunately what we know, is that we have over-representation of Māori in ...

Suicide awareness groups demand change at Waitangi to lower Maori suicide rates - The brother of a man who took his own life is calling on the Government to visit while at Waitangi and talk about how they can be doing more to lower ...