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Australia bans sexual relations between government ministers and staff -  Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Thursday banned sexual relations between government ministers and staff members, following the revelation that his deputy had an ... Same-sex couples in Australia tied the knot in midnight ceremonies as the last legal obstacles to gay marriage expired.

Fab Guys: Everything you need to know about the gay dating app - FabGuys.com is a dating site for gay and bi men which was founded in 2005, and boasts an ever-increasing user base. . Here's everything you need to ... including the UK. If you are travelling to Australia , Canada, Ireland or New Zealand then you should be able to use Fab Guys while you are there.

The Equality Campaign Says Existing Religious Exemptions Go Too Far - Several faith-based groups, including Christian Schools Australia , have told the review that current religious exemptions don't go far enough, but the ... In its submission, the HRLC also called on the federal government to prohibit so-called “ gay conversion” or “ gay reparative” therapies, which attempt to ...

Hillsong Megachurch, Australia's Top Churches Ask to Be Exempt From Anti-Discrimination Laws - Hillsong Church and a number of other top Christian organizations in Australia have asked the government that they be exempt from anti-discrimination laws, including in the case of hiring and firing employees. "We've never needed to protect religious freedom before, but now we do," said Patrick ...

People smugglers do what they can to 'get bums on boats' but nothing's changed - Australia's refugee situation on Manus Island have not increased the risk of people smugglers targeting New Zealand, Immigration NZ information shows. Trans-Tasman tensions have been rising over the situation of asylum seekers on Australia's decommissioned offshore processing station in Papua  ...

Any potential Manus Island refugees would be vetted on arrival to NZ - The 150 people brought over from the centre in Papua New Guinea would be formally screened for health issues, security status and issues of ... Based on public sources, about two-thirds of the about 400 people still in the island detention centre had provisionally been deemed as being in need of ...

Health department slams anthrax report - The people of Papua New Guinea should not be panicked by the alleged report in the media regarding an anthrax outbreak in Madang early this week. The National ... caught the anthrax bacteria. We have to be careful with the lives of the people when posting about diseases (outbreaks),” Kase warned.

You have the tools, now make a change - What lies beyond the new Labour government's 'first 100 days' for health policy and outcomes for Māori ? In the final installment of our series on the future of Māori health, former Ministry of Health advisor and policy analyst Gabrielle Baker sums up the core values needed to make big changes to our ...

Māori Heritage Informs Artist's Work - Raewyn has created interior spaces which draw on Māori design elements in wallpapers and soft furnishings. Her childhood memories of her marae, she says, are the foundation from which these works grow. “Influenced by Sandy Adsett's design of the Tūturu exhibition held in MTG last year, I began to ...

New window into Maori Auckland - Aucklanders will now be able to learn more about the Maori side of the city at a new facility just off the northwest edge of Aotea Square. Pa Rongorongo, a pair of linked containers, is adjacent to the site of an ancestral kainga and repo or wetland where Maori life flourished alongside Te Wai Horotiu, the ...

Hāpai Te Hauora Warns Lottery Commission about Using Cultural Appropriation - Hāpai Te Hauora's general manager Anthony Hawke said that the augmented reality application caused some concern, especially taking into account the fact that the largest Māori Public Health organization in New Zealand has already raised a red flag over the use of digital technologies in gambling ...

English support appreciated by Maori Party -  He says the support of Mr English as finance minister was critical to what the Maori Party was able to achieve in government. He says the relationship was truly mana-enhancing. "I found Bill English straight up and down, a good man in the sense that he's honest, he works hard, he had high expectations ...

Indigenous Australian figure skater Harley Windsor makes history - History was made at the Gangneung Ice Arena on Wednesday when Harley Windsor, a figure skater from the western suburbs of Sydney, became the first Indigenous Australian athlete to compete at a Winter Olympics. The 21-year-old, along with his Russia-born partner Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, ...

Australia's apology to Stolen Generations: 'It gave me peace' - Ten years ago, Aboriginal Australian Ian Hamm welcomed words he had been waiting a lifetime to hear. "For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry," Kevin Rudd, then prime minister, said in parliament. The apology on 13 ...

Qantas unveils indigenous livery Boeing 787-9 - 2018, linking the continents of Australia and Europe with regularly scheduled passenger flights for the first time. Three 787-9s have already been delivered and are currently operating Melbourne-Los Angeles flights. Qantas has had five aircraft painted with an Indigenous livery – two Boeing 747-400s, ...

Aboriginal leaders say PM Malcolm Turnbull was 'deceitful' over recognition dialogue -  Aboriginal leaders have accused the Prime Minister of being "deceitful" and duplicitous for privately encouraging them to consult the Australian public on enshrining an Indigenous voice in the constitution before publicly rejecting the proposal.

NT unveils updated defence strategy - How the Australian government invests and procures to meet Australia's defence and national security needs can also deliver broader socioeconomic outcomes in support of other national priorities, including Closing the Gap in Aboriginal disadvantage and in developing northern Australia ," the strategy ...

Let those who understand indigenous needs take over control of spending - It is clear that current and indeed past government policies and interventions have failed, and it is time to hand responsibility to those who know and understand the needs and wishes of Aboriginal people. Jim Laffer, Bassendean, WA. Bravo, Andrew Penfold and the Australian Indigenous Education ...

Enough symbolism – time for Indigenous programs that work better - The 2009 Closing the Gaps Report aimed to set concrete goals to bring seven key Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander social statistics in line with or closer to the Australian mainstream. Ten years on, and despite over half a billion dollars a week being tipped into various Indigenous poverty alleviation ...

Program to tackle Indigenous smokers head on - Member for Cowper, Luke Hartsuyker, said the campaign is the advance guard of Australia's first four-year Tackling Indigenous Smoking (TIS) program. "Together we are making progress in reducing smoking rates but tobacco is still claiming the lives of far too many local Indigenous people,” he said.