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Should Australia Day's date be moved? - How you feel about the subject of Australia Day and the date it is held will – as it ... In 1938 Aboriginal leaders publicly declared it a day of sorrow and ...

State Department 'deeply disturbed' by latest Chechnya anti- LGBTI crackdown - “We are deeply disturbed by credible reports out of Chechnya about renewed attacks against individuals perceived to be members of the LGBTI  ...

The Women's March takes to the streets for the third year - For many women, particularly LGBTI and Jewish women, the Women's March leaders refusing to condemn Farrakhan was troubling. Many local ...

Med students push for more LGBTI health training - A third-year med student at New York Medical College is vocal about the need to focus more on LGBTI health Sarah Spiegel, a third-year med student ...

Homeless people of color started our revolution, so why we forget about them? - 2016 would turn out to be the deadliest year for the LGBTI community on record. We spent the morning reading and crying. When I opened the ...

Papua New Guinea's only radiation machine won't work — and the consequences can be fatal -  Papua New Guinea's only radiation machine won't work — and the ... in Papua New Guinea, there is currently no radiotherapy available for people  ...

Oldest nanny competes at Waka Ama Nationals - As Taroi Black reports the 82 year-old was given a national salute at New Zealand's biggest waka ama annual event. Morehu says, "I didn't at first ...

Brewers encouraged to consider cultural sensitivities -  Māori cultural adviser Karaitiana Taiuru has also spoken out, explaining to New Zealand's island friends that Tā Moko is sacred in Māori culture.

Māori tourism gets top guidance - NZ Māori Tourism is reaching for the heights, bringing the sons of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa to meet iwi and share their experience of the opportunities ...

Maori Kids to start the school year more behind than ever -  Maori Kids to start the school year more behind than ever before: rise of the digital divide In this press release: an overview of the problem faced, ...

Time to overhaul NZ's pesticide rules - Treaty interests relevant to the regulation of pesticides include the substantive protection of native flora and fauna, protection of the Māori guardianship ...

Perth schoolgirl's heartbreaking message before taking own life - Ms Pryor's death comes amid fears of a rising suicide rate among Aboriginal children in Australia . She was the fifth indigenous girl in the country to die ...

Australia's rich keep getting richer, with billionaires' wealth rising $160bn in one year - The yawning gap between health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia – who face a devastating infant mortality rate ...

Stonewall reinforces need for LGBTI children's books following spate of bans -  UK-based LGBTI rights group Stonewall has reinforced the need for LGBTI -themed books for children. The group says that books highlighting LGBTI  ...

Brexit might be the end of LGBTI protection, human rights lawyer warns - The Brexit process is threatening the rights of the LGBTI community, British lawyer Helena Kennedy warns. After Prime Minister ...

LGBTI -inclusive anti-bullying laws linked to lower rates of teen suicides - The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law has found a connection between LGBTI -inclusive state bullying laws and lower rates of teen suicide ...

Fans get a first look at Supergirl's trans superhero, Dreamer - The announcement of the role and casting was praised by many in the LGBTI community. Producers described the character as a 'soulful young ...

The double lives of New Zealand's celebrity impersonators - But across the world, and here in New Zealand , there are many hardworking people who still have a lot of skin – and sweat – in the impersonation ...

Rowdy tourists praise Māori culture, slam ruthless 'white Kiwis' - The family's movements down New Zealand's North Island have been carefully followed by ... The ruthless people are the white Kiwis, not the Māori

NZ human rights to come under scrutiny from UN - Last month, 50 influential New Zealand women signed an open letter calling ... New Zealand's prison population is being forecast to rise by more than ...

The hunt for the 'unruly' people : tracking the tourists New Zealand can't get enough of - From the moment the group were snapped leaving their rubbish at an Auckland beach, New Zealand hasn't been able to get enough of the family ...

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The real reason for the indigenous suicide crisis which has seen five Aboriginal girls ... - A failure to address issues facing the Aboriginal community is partly to blame for Australia's Indigenous youth suicide crisis, experts claim. An alarming ...

Forcing Australia Day citizenship ceremonies on councils won't make the issue go away - As more councils debate the matter, it's clear Australians are starting to think about what it would mean to include indigenous peoples as equal ...

Eight facts about Indigenous people in Australia - How many Indigenous languages are spoken in Australia ? How many are in danger of disappearing? And why are so many Indigenous kids – some ...

Campaign to free Aboriginal women jailed for unpaid fines - An online crowdfunding campaign set up to help Aboriginal women in Western Australia avoid jail for unpaid fines has raised $230,000 in its first four ...

The Uniting Church and 'Change the Date' - This Sunday, 20 January, Uniting Churches around Australia will be ... Church has with the United Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress, the ...

Aboriginal TV presenter wades into Australia Day debate -  Aboriginal TV presenter Brooke Bonney has waded into the debate on Australia Day, saying it should be moved from January 26.

Kansas reintroduces laws to protect LGBTI people from workplace discrimination - Kansas' new governor has signed back into law anti-discrimination measures for LGBTI workers employed by the state government.

Technology that blocks LGBTI content online is putting people in danger - For the LGBTI individuals facing widespread persecution and discrimination in the six countries where Netsweeper's services are in use, the ...

Grindr shuts down its LGBTI news site - But, Into staffers and LGBTI advocates in the US bemoaned the loss to LGBTI media. Into caused controversy in November last year with a report into ...

Anti-gay Singapore is leaving LGBTI people without a home - Finally, without anti-discrimination legislation to protect individuals in the private renting market, LGBTI tenants are at risk from homophobic or ...

Unruly tourists speak out as deportation looms - After that, they claim they were abused, with people calling them "Irish .... "We have to go home early because the New Zealand people are treating my ...

All smiles after being accepted to study dentistry - It's important to have Māori dentists so Māori can help other Māori improve their oral health.” Father, Aaron Kamana- who says he's in need of a new  ...

Reviving the Maori Language - On paper, the Maori people's rights have been recognized since New Zealand's colonization. But discrimination against the Maori people has ...

2019: International Year of Indigenous Languages -  Māori Language expert Tawhirimatea Williams says preservation of any ... we came here and started going to school in New Zealand ,” says Tunato, ...

Hikoi to support wahine undergoing weight loss surgery - It's making me a lot more accountable for the whole hikoi and my new ... Meanwhile, whānau around Australia and New Zealand will take part in their ...

Cannabis convictions fall in New Zealand while meth still on the rise - Cannabis convictions fall in New Zealand while meth still on the rise ... half of those convictions, while 80 percent are men and 41 percent are Māori .

Suicide claims one life a week in the Northern Territory - The figures were in line with previous years, with the NT having Australia's highest suicide rate per capita for nine out of the last 10 years leading up to ...

More than unpopular. How ParentsNext intrudes on single parents' human rights - The program trialled from April 2016 provided intensive job-readiness training (and parenting programs) for single parents “at risk”, often Indigenous , ...

Five indigenous girls take their own lives in nine-day period - Five indigenous girls take their own lives in nine-day period ... Three of the other cases occurred in Western Australia and one was in Queensland.

Forcing Australia Day citizenship ceremonies on councils won't make the issue go away - All of them, however, take seriously the inclusion of Australia's Indigenous heritage and multicultural diversity in our national day. Our interviews show ...

Indigenous youth suicide at crisis point - Communities and families are mourning the loss of five young Aboriginal girls who took their own lives in separate incidents in Western Australia , ...

Traditional masculinity has been dubbed 'harmful' by a major health body - to shun friendships with gay men and 38 per cent thought boys shouldn't learn how to cook and clean. ... In an Australian context, a high value is placed on expressions of manliness ...

Republican governor protects LGBTI govt employees on first day in office - Newly sworn-in Republican Governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, signed an executive order barring anti-LGBT discrimination in state employment on ...

Returning Native Title Materials - The native title system has produced a remarkable and unprecedented research effort, both in size and scope. The information assets created by ...

Australia launches first LGBTI consent festival - One of Australia's largest LGBTI events, Melbourne's Midsumma Festival, will ... 'In health for example, we've just had a debate in politics about “ gay  ...

The Gay Penguins of Australia - When Sphen and Magic became a couple, Australia had just gone through a bitter battle about whether gay marriage should be legal. The human gay  ...

NCEA results are out and Māori may have an advantage - NCEA results released today reveal only 1 in 7 students enrolled in Māori language subjects are enrolled in Te Reo Rangatira. However, wharekura ...

Paradiso Ubud celebrates indigenous voices through film - The Papua -themed evening also explored indigenous literary talents. ... It tells the story of how indigenous people can be resourceful when faced with ...

Māori more likely to face prison after drug conviction - Drug Foundation's latest state of the nation has found more than half of those being imprisoned for low level drug offences are Māori . The report ...

Te Reo Maori needed in smaller communities too - Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is rejecting a suggestion it is short changing Māori language students on the Kaipara. Peter Boyes, who took Te Ara Reo ...

Taranaki mayor censures councillor 'ashamed' of Māori anthem - New Plymouth mayor Neil Holdom has distanced himself from comments made by a district councillor who says he is "ashamed" of singing the te reo ...

Māori films more than 'natives running around with bare bums' - The search is on for the next big thing in Māori filmmaking after the New Zealand Film Commission earmarked $2.5 million for feature films in te reo ...

Fears of rising suicide rate among indigenous youth - Four Aboriginal girls have taken their own lives in a horror week in Western Australia , with one prominent suicide researcher predicting indigenous  ...

Australia to force local governments to induct citizens on national holiday -  Australia's federal government has ordered local ... The country's 700,000 or so indigenous people track near the bottom of its 25 ...

Five indigenous girls die over nine days in alarming spate of suicides - The tragic toll of indigenous child suicide around Australia has risen further, with confirmation that a 12-year-old girl living near Adelaide took her own ...

Blaming 1788 won't fix child suicides' -  Australia's indigenous suicide crisis won't be fixed by blaming colonisation, says Aboriginal academic Anthony Dillon, who is calling for a greater focus ...

Don't tell me I'm 'too pretty to be Aboriginal '. It's not a compliment; it's racism - I wanted to use the power of documentary to address the discrimination Aboriginal women face on a daily basis all over Australia ; I wanted to help ...

Indigenous trailblazers to headline 2019 National Multicultural Festival - Mark Olive is Australia's best known Aboriginal chef who features on television and has performed live cooking promotions around Australia and ...

17 novels any lesbian and bi woman should read before turning 30 -  LGBTI literature can be crucial in providing young readers with the role models they desperately need or with some insights into a different life they'll ...

Activists fear new LGBT purge in Chechnya after dozens arrested - The report criticised Russia's response, saying “Russian authorities responsible for investigating alleged crimes against LGBTI citizens persecuted in ...

Te Reo Maori needed in smaller communities too - Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is rejecting a suggestion it is short changing Māori language students on the Kaipara. Peter Boyes, who took Te Ara Reo ...

Why we need to encourage straight people to go to gay clubs - like many other LGBTI people, do not hang out exclusively with people of the same sexuality. This presents an obstacle for me on nights out.

Singapore is tightening adoption laws after gay man adopts surrogate son -  LGBTI community celebrated the court's ruling as a win for equal rights. But the judges made it clear they made their decision based on the child's ...

WHY? Because Koteka Is The Reason - West Papua is a part of Indonesia too, but not many people are at all concerned about the situation there – with all the genocides, massacres and ...

First-Ever Indigenous Peoples March Will Fight Against Injustices Faced Across the Globe - More than 10,000 marchers are anticipated to descend on DC for the event, including people from Australia, Guatemala, Papua New Guinea, Canada, ...

Intercultural cities: good practice examples - Staff is supported to learn and use te reo Māori which is one of the three official languages of New Zealand (the other two are English and New ...

Health organisation calls for less tobacco availability in Māori communities - That's distracting from the big issue, which is how much tobacco tax Māori are paying disproportionately, and that is harming our communities ...

A tobacco-free Māori nation is vital' - However, one researcher disputed that and said the best thing for Māori was to ... to elsewhere, which disproportionately impacted Māori communities.

Five Key Values of Strong Maori Leadership - The indigenous people of New Zealand/Aotearoa, Maori , are facing a renaissance of culture, despite a long history of colonization and cultural ...

Outback isolation no sweat for new Aboriginal cops ready to hit beat in troubled Territory towns - Raised in the tiny outback town of Elliot, a gruelling 700 kilometres from Darwin in the north and Alice Springs in the south, Joshua Jackson is all too ...

Locking in the future of tourism and jobs in Kakadu - Kakadu is one of Australia's most important environmental and heritage assets, biggest tourism icons and home to 60,000 years of living Indigenous  ...

WA workers urged to start meeting with welcome to country - been billed as a way to combat the history of dispossession of indigenous Australians and “end the exclusion that has been so damaging”.

Hang-ups on colonisation won't fix indigenous suicides, academic says Andrew BurrellFollow ... -  Australia's indigenous suicide crisis won't be fixed by blaming colonisation, says Aboriginal academic Anthony Dillon, who is calling for a greater focus ...

Aboriginal girl 'traumatised' after police strip-search in Hobart - strip-search of a 13-year-old Aboriginal girl who was held in custody for allegedly breaking a curfew has been criticised by her family and ...

Interesting myths and other facts you didn't know about Australia - Prof Langton's book suggests cultural experiences that can help Aussies learn more about Aboriginal culture and offers insights into language , ...

In 2019 the LGBTI History Month will be going global -  2019, the annual LGBTI History Month will be one of the biggest ever. Not only is the grassroots event celebrating its 15th anniversary but it ...