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A little bit more on Winston's proposed referendums

A little bit more on Winston's proposed referendums - So we're expected to believe that Labour will fight tooth-and-nail to win the Māori seats this election, then meekly capitulate to allowing a binding vote ...

Growing te reo Māori capabilities

Growing te reo Māori capabilities - This is "Growing te reo Māori capabilities" by Ministry of Education on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Applications open for Māori Innovation Fund scheme

Applications open for Māori Innovation Fund scheme -  Māori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell has today announced the opening of applications for the third round of the Commercial Advisors ...

What a National-NZ First Govt might actually doWhat a National-NZ First Govt might actually do

What a National-NZ First Govt might actually do - Having a referendum on removing the Maori seats and on reducing the number of MPs. National's official policy is to remove the Maori seats, although ...

Referendum Council wants indigenous voice

Referendum Council wants indigenous voice - Labor senator and Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson described the council's proposal as "a bit of a bolt in the dark", saying handing down a single ...

South Australian bookworms top reading stakes in national arts participation survey by Australia ...

South Australian bookworms top reading stakes in national arts participation survey by Australia ... - SOUTH Australians are more likely to read novels and poetry than their interstate counterparts and one in three now attended indigenous cultural ...

Indigenous Recognition Referendum Council delivers final report

Indigenous Recognition Referendum Council delivers final report - just a single recommendation on constitutional change: the creation of a parliamentary body through which indigenous Australians can have a voice ...

Global survey shows Australia rates poorly for funding early education

Global survey shows Australia rates poorly for funding early education - The number of Australian children enrolled in early childhood education is ... Australia spends 0.5 per cent, less than half that of Chile, Slovenia and Russia. ... The Indigenous Recognition Referendum Council hands its final report to ...

Making peace with identities

Making peace with identities - He was determined to find out more about it by visiting culturally significant places for indigenous Australians and asking them possibly hundreds of ...

Referendum Council's one recommendation leaves Malcolm Turnbull unsure

Referendum Council's one recommendation leaves Malcolm Turnbull unsure -  Australia's political leaders have been urged to abandon any immediate pursuit of an Indigenous treaty and to instead push for a referendum to ..

No veto power for 'Indigenous voice' in referendum council plan

No veto power for ' Indigenous voice' in referendum council plan -  Australia has been urged by an expert panel to support a referendum which would give a "Voice to the Parliament" for Indigenous people, but with the ...

Hopes for Pepi-Pods to reduce Australia's alarming infant mortality rate

Hopes for Pepi-Pods to reduce Australia's alarming infant mortality rate - Hopes for Pepi-Pods to reduce Australia's alarming infant mortality rate ... and for Australian Indigenous families that increased again three-fold.

WA sisters not protected before deaths

WA sisters not protected before deaths - A harrowing description of life in Western Australia's Aboriginal communities was given by witnesses to state Coroner Ros Fogliani in Broome, where ...

Teachers, support staff struggling in 'highly dysfunctional' communities

Teachers, support staff struggling in 'highly dysfunctional' communities - A coronial inquest into the suicides of 13 Aboriginal people in Western Australia's far north has heard support workers are struggling to address high ...

Why do human beings speak so many languages?

Why do human beings speak so many languages ? - And these languages are not spread randomly across the planet. ... the diversity of aboriginal languages – a total of 406 – found in Australia prior to ...

1 in 6 children in Australia live below the poverty line

1 in 6 children in Australia live below the poverty line - However, the latest ACOSS Poverty in Australia report reveals our nation is certainly not immune with 731,000^ Australian children living below the ...

If Pride Means Anything, LGBT+ Must Defend the Rights of Ex-Muslims

If Pride Means Anything, LGBT+ Must Defend the Rights of Ex-Muslims - Criticism of Islamic homophobia must not be forced out of LGBT+ spaces. It's time for Ex-Muslims to be heard. Pride parades are a commemoration of ...

Supporting Safe Schools is “anti-human” according to Lyle Shelton

Supporting Safe Schools is “anti-human” according to Lyle Shelton - The head of the Australian Christian Lobby has voiced his agreement with a ... The discussion was part of the Australian Christian Lobby's Voice for ... is needed to discuss gay relationships, transgender rights and adoption laws, IVF ...

Barnaby Joyce opens up to GQ about needing stitches, losing teeth and 'gay marriage'

Barnaby Joyce opens up to GQ about needing stitches, losing teeth and ' gay marriage' - The other one is gay marriage. Mate, I can assure you, on most streets of Australia , people do not give a shit about it. It's an issue, but it's way down the ...

The protest and power of disability activism: 'It's not as sexy as gay rights or climate change'

The protest and power of disability activism: 'It's not as sexy as gay rights or climate change' - Director Sarah Barton tells a largely untold story, charting the history of the disability rights movement in Australia , the US and the UK. “As someone ...