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Community sets kaupapa for Kaika health centre - The South Dunedin community is preparing for the opening of the city's first kaupapa Maori health and social services centre. Te Kaika is the redevelopment of a former school in Caversham to house medical and dental clinics and social work agencies. Project manager Albie Lawrence says a ...

Māori school feeds body, mind and spirit for $4 a day - Parents of students at Tai Wānanga don't pay anything for education - but they pay $4 a day for the school to give their children breakfast and lunch.

Te Wharekura o Mauao appoints Matua Heywood Kuka - Te Wharekura o Mauao has confirmed Matua Heywood Kuka has been appointed as the Maori immersion school's new Tumuaki (principal), succeeding Matua Koa Douglas. Located in Bethlehem, Tauranga, Te Wharekura o Mauao provides tikanga Māori education for Year 7 to 13 students, and having ...

New Zealand Fertility Clinic Denies Services to Gay Cancer Patient - A New Zealand fertility clinic has informed a gay man with leukemia that he cannot freeze his sperm, a right that is routinely offered to heterosexual ... to the need for every country — not just New Zealand — to convene legislative committees and explore how to best uphold LGBT and reproductive rights. Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

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I took the leap': Unauthorised selfie signage at Aboriginal massacre site prompts outrage - These acts are reflective of the relationship between Indigenous and non- Indigenous Australia . “Black pain has long been entertainment for whitefellas in this country.” the leap mackay aboriginal massacre A statue of the woman who jumped off the mountain with her swaddled baby is at the bottom of ...

Australia still struggling to improve Aboriginal lives, report finds - The government's approach on these important issues is flawed, with the government's punitive CDP measure failing Aboriginal people and communities". Australia is making some progress in improving health and education among its indigenous population, an annual report said today, but it is still ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

Do-gooding to disaster - Would-be do-gooders must learn to take on the unglamorous supporting and facilitating role to remote Australians . But despite the $30 billion a year spent on tackling indigenous issues, that's an idea struggling to get funded. For the first 100 or so years of white settlement, an air of inevitability pervaded ...

Opportunity, not cash, is key to indigenous aid' - Fortescue will mark Mr Power's final day as chief executive by announcing today that its program to provide work to indigenous -owned companies has ... Speaking to The Australian ahead of today's announcement, Mr Power said his travels throughout regional Australia had taught him that a culture of ...

Beaumaris Bay consortium in bid for National Heritage List protection for ancient fossil site - Sandringham Foreshore Association president Vicki Karalis is leading a consortium of more than 40 scientific and community groups in a bid to have part of Beaumaris Bay included on the National Heritage List which marks out areas of outstanding significance to Australia . Dr Karalis said the ...

How Western science is finally catching up to Indigenous knowledge - While new to Western science, the behaviours of the nighthawks have long been known to the Alawa, MalakMalak, Jawoyn, and other Indigenous peoples of northern Australia whose ancestors occupied their lands for tens of thousands of years. Contrary to most scientific studies, Bonta and Gosford's ...

Meme is a person who quietly made a huge contribution to our lives. - The rare feat of achieving triennial funding from the Australia Council behind her, Meme worked with all five communities to develop their individual stories (song lines). With her extensive experience, trust and relationship with indigenous communities around Australia over her life's work, she developed ...

Australia achieves progress in improving indigenous lives - The remaining four targets look unlikely to be met including closing the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non- Indigenous Australians within a generation. "With four of the existing Closing the Gap targets expiring in 2018, the Australian government is working with the states and territories ...

Innovative jobs can help overcome disability and poverty link - " Australians with disabilities have the highest relative poverty risk among all OECD countries and the poverty rate is the second highest in the OECD (after the United States of America). The OECD estimated that in 2010, 45 per cent of all people with disabilities in Australia were living in poverty .".

Govt vet support targets suicide reduction - Families play an essential role in a veteran's health and wellbeing and this bill will ensure vital services such as income support and health care (to) help veterans and their families transitioning into civilian life," Mr McCormack said. More than 5000 people leave Australia's defence service each year, ...

The saga of Barnaby Joyce shows why Australia's politics are about to get a lot more American - That's an old political theory, I know, but it has had fresh confirmation in Australia this week as Barnaby Joyce, the country's deputy prime minister, attempts to survive news of a relationship with a younger woman. Joyce is a hat-wearing, country-dwelling, gay -marriage-opposing conservative. He's the ...

Adam Rippon's Beauty "Secret" Is Everything You Ever Wanted It to Be - US Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon (aka Prince Charming incarnate) is spilling his beauty secrets. We already know that Adam has a matching tattoo with teammate Mirai Nagasu, but what about his day-to-day routine? Turns out, the legend has a lot to say on the subject. As Adam told Us ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter