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Saturday recap : Māori | NZ

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Saturday recap : Māori | NZ

Saturday recap : Aboriginal Community

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Saturday recap : Aboriginal Community

Indigenous incarceration rate 'shameful' due to failure to address poverty

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Indigenous incarceration rate 'shameful' due to failure to address poverty  - His comments come as the Northern Territory government passed legislation expanding the use of restraints for children in juvenile detention, and seeking to remove the presumption of bail for repeat offenders.

It's Sorry Day. But 'Sorry' Means It Shouldn't Happen Again

It's Sorry Day. But 'Sorry' Means It Shouldn't Happen Again   - The forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and land is a blight on Australian history. Although we as a ...

There are lots of ways to say sorry, but Indigenous Australians need a treaty now

There are lots of ways to say sorry, but Indigenous Australians need a treaty now  - An Indigenous woman in Canberra in February 2008, watching Kevin Rudd deliver an apology to Australia's first peoples. It was 'underwritten with ...

Violence linked to poverty

Violence linked to poverty  - The Salvation Army released a nationwide survey this week after it surveyed 1600 people across Australia who sought its assistance. The findings ...

More resources needed to support schizophrenia

More resources needed to support schizophrenia  - The figures released by the Mental Health Fellowship of Australia (MIFA) also showed less than half the 600,000 Australians with a serious mental  ...

Desmond Tutu's daughter Mpho Tutu-van Furth has priest duties stripped away amid gay marriage ...

Desmond Tutu's daughter Mpho Tutu-van Furth has priest duties stripped away amid gay marriage ...   - He has previously spoken out in favour of gay marriage. Marceline Tutu-van Furth is an Amsterdam-based professor specialising in paediatric ...