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Provocative photos imagine Australia's white colonizers in chains

Provocative photos imagine Australia's white colonizers in chains - By recreating images from Australia's past, photographer Greg Semu is ... Yet, not everyone in Australia's indigenous art community agrees with ...

Australia's record-breaking winter beats average highs by 2C, Climate Council says

Australia's record-breaking winter beats average highs by 2C, Climate Council says -  Australia's record-breaking winter beats average highs by 2C, Climate ... but a few degrees can make a big difference in the remote Aboriginal community, ... on July 27 it reached 36.3C, the hottest day in Australia's warmest July.

From Antarctica to the Vatican, remote Indigenous community sends crosses to the world

From Antarctica to the Vatican, remote Indigenous community sends crosses to the world - By doing paintings from our hearts, instead of the wider Australia thinking that Aboriginal people are no good, they can see that some good can come ...

Excluding Indigenous youth from schools may severely increase their risk of incarceration

Excluding Indigenous youth from schools may severely increase their risk of incarceration - Many Indigenous children, particularly boys aged 10 to 17 years, are receiving lengthy suspensions from schools throughout Australia . Even more ...

How To Navigate Uni Life As One Of The Only New Aboriginal Students

How To Navigate Uni Life As One Of The Only New Aboriginal Students - How To Navigate Uni Life As One Of The Only New Aboriginal Students ... At most unis, there are really wonderful Aboriginal student support ... 2017 we're needing to spell it out for people that Australia Day is a god awful shit idea.

National shame': Push for courts to consider Aboriginal background in sentencing

National shame': Push for courts to consider Aboriginal background in sentencing - The blueprint for reducing Indigenous incarceration rates also recommends mandatory sentences be repealed across the .... Watch as Senator Pat Dodson takes down Nigel Scullion over the state of Indigenous affairs in Australia .

Dr G Yunupingu, renowned Indigenous musician, to be farewelled at state memorial in Darwin

Dr G Yunupingu, renowned Indigenous musician, to be farewelled at state memorial in Darwin -  One of Australia's most famous Aboriginal musicians will be farewelled at a state memorial service in Darwin today. Dr G Yunupingu died in July at ...

Young Aboriginal LGBTI people are killing themselves. We need to protect them

Young Aboriginal LGBTI people are killing themselves. We need to protect them - Young Aboriginal LGBTI people are killing themselves. .... Guardian Australia is proud to partner with IndigenousX to showcase the diversity of ...

Australia hits out at Russia, China on cyber

Australia hits out at Russia, China on cyber -  Australia has hit out at Russian and Chinese-led attempts to hand states more ... Mr Hanson said the statement aligns Australia closely with the US view, ... flu are in shock over how it could have claimed an otherwise healthy child .

Mandatory celibacy remains major risk factor for child sexual abuse, claims Australian survey

Mandatory celibacy remains major risk factor for child sexual abuse, claims Australian survey - An extensive survey by two former Australian priests says mandatory celibacy has been and remains the major risk factor for child sexual abuse and ...

It's not okay to vote No': Boss fires worker over same-sex marriage views

It's not okay to vote No': Boss fires worker over same-sex marriage views - It began with an 'It's OK to vote No' Facebook filter and ended two weeks later, when 18-year-old Madeline was fired over her views on same-sex  ...

Marriage vote among most important human rights issues of our time, Gladys Berejiklian says

Marriage vote among most important human rights issues of our time, Gladys Berejiklian says - NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has come out strongly in favour of support for same-sex , describing it as one of the most important human rights ...

You can count on the ABS for same-sex survey

You can count on the ABS for same-sex survey  - The Australian Bureau of Statistics has provided an assurance that the results of the same-sex marriage plebiscite will include a count of Yes and No ...

Support for equal marriage plummets in Australia

Support for equal marriage plummets in Australia - Support for equal marriage had dropped sharply in Australia , as anti-gay ... As the vote got underway, anti- LGBT activists have begun a divisive ...

Anti-gay activists in Australia to rally at LGBT Holocaust memorial

Anti-gay activists in Australia to rally at LGBT Holocaust memorial - A far-right group is planning to hold a “Straight Lives Matter” protest against same-sex marriage in an area with a large LGBT population. The Party for ...

Evangelical Church Threatened With Being Set on Fire Amid LGBT Outrage at Marriage Billboard

Evangelical Church Threatened With Being Set on Fire Amid LGBT Outrage at Marriage Billboard - A pastor at an evangelical church in Brisbane, Australia , has said the church has received serious threats online, including one vowing to burn it down, ...

Affordable, quality food needn't be a luxury

Affordable, quality food needn't be a luxury - Instead healthy food has become out of reach for ordinary New Zealanders . New data from the Household Economic Survey* by Statistics New ...

Child sex abuse, overweight children drag down New Zealand's health ranking

Child sex abuse, overweight children drag down New Zealand's health ranking -  New Zealand's child sex abuse rates are among the world's worst, ... treated sexual abuse as a problem affecting only a small number of people , she ...

Community backing helps plan for te reo growth

Community backing helps plan for te reo growth - A Taranaki Maori language advocate says Maori language week has been a great opportunity to plan for the year and encourage people to use te reo ...

In New Zealand, a Translated 'Moana' Bolsters an Indigenous Language

In New Zealand, a Translated 'Moana' Bolsters an Indigenous Language - But with one in three Maori people in New Zealand under the age of 15, ... the former head of New Zealand's Maori Language Commission, said the ...