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WHAT is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia?

WHAT is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia ? - That is the question posed by award-winning author Anita Heiss in an anthology published this week. In her attempts to showcase a diverse range of voices and experiences, Ms Heiss has collected 52 accounts from a range of well-known authors, activists and high-profile identities. To celebrate the .

How an Aboriginal women's choir ended up in Germany, singing Lutheran church songs in the ...

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How an Aboriginal women's choir ended up in Germany, singing Lutheran church songs in the ... - In remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, Baroque hymns introduced and translated by German missionaries in the 1870s have helped preserve local languages. A new documentary, Song Keepers, follows the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir (CAAWC) and their ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

AFL scouts line up for country's best young Indigenous talent

AFL scouts line up for country's best young Indigenous talent - More than 300 young Indigenous and multicultural Australian rules football players took part in a special tournament on Thursday at the Blacktown International Sportspark in Sydney. Some of the boys have travelled from regional and remote communities for the chance to show off their sporting skills to ...

Australians needing disability help rises

Australians needing disability help rises -  Indigenous Australians are far more likely than the broader population to need disability supports and are bucking the general trend of dependence increasing with age. The number of Australians living with disabilities and in need of assistance continues to climb, according to the latest national census.

New anthology shares diverse range of experiences in growing up Aboriginal in Australia

New anthology shares diverse range of experiences in growing up Aboriginal in Australia - WHAT is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia ? That is the question posed by award-winning author Anita Heiss in an anthology published this week. In her attempts to showcase a diverse range of voices and experiences, Ms Heiss has collected 52 accounts from a range of well-known authors, ...

WA's push to host more events wins ATE 2019 and major indigenous meet

WA's push to host more events wins ATE 2019 and major indigenous meet - Organised by Tourism Australia , ATE19 will be held at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre 08-12 April 2019. Western Australia also will host the third World Indigenous Tourism Summit in April 2020. The summit brings together indigenous tourism operators to discuss economic, environmental, ...

The first Canadians

The first Canadians - DNA analysis reveals interbreeding. Europeans and those from the Middle East carry one to four per cent of Neanderthal genes. Melanesians and Australian Aboriginals carry six per cent of Denisovan genes. We humans are probably all one species, just as Spaniels and Chihuahuas are all dogs.

Indigenous adviser Ah See blasts Turnbull for snub of Uluru Statement

Indigenous adviser Ah See blasts Turnbull for snub of Uluru Statement - Despite indigenous leaders gathering in central Australia in 2017 and committing to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the Australian government swiftly dismissed important elements … including a voice in government,” Mr Ah See said at the permanent forum on indigenous issues. “The Statement ...

Indigenous man granted $1.3m compensation for wrongful conviction

Indigenous man granted $1.3m compensation for wrongful conviction - An Indigenous man who spent almost five years in jail after being wrongfully accused of killing a non- Indigenous man in Broome in 2010 has been granted $1.3m in compensation from the Western Australian government. Gene Gibson, a Pintupi man from the remote community of Kiwirrkurra, ...

Australia and India should revitalise the Commonwealth: UK think tank

Australia and India should revitalise the Commonwealth: UK think tank -  Australia and India have been nominated as two countries who could take the lead in helping renovate the Commonwealth while the United ... This is in contrast to the recommendations of a report commissioned by the parliament's Trade out of Poverty group, which said greater multilateral ...

What's wrong with our child-bride laws? Despite 70 complaints last year, there have been no ...

What's wrong with our child-bride laws? Despite 70 complaints last year, there have been no ... - She says that forced marriage cases in Australia are well and truly under-reported. “What we know is the tip of the tip of the iceberg,” Ms Stanger says of the number of cases which are reported. The young girls who are helped by the Salvation Army programs are generally aged between 16-19 years.

Australia's deputy Prime Minister has 'no view one way or another' on gay 'cure' therapy

Australia's deputy Prime Minister has 'no view one way or another' on gay 'cure' therapy - The Deputy Prime Minister of Australia has said that he has “no view” on gay 'conversion' therapy. Michael McCormack, who is acting leader while Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, added that he had not even “looked into” the issue. .

Boris Johnson promises Tom Daley he'll raise LGBT rights with Commonwealth

Boris Johnson promises Tom Daley he'll raise LGBT rights with Commonwealth - Boris Johnson has told Radio 1 Newsbeat that he will raise gay rights with leaders of countries where homosexuality is illegal. The foreign secretary was responding to Tom Daley's call for Commonwealth countries to change their laws. The diver spoke out after winning gold at the recent games on the ..

World's First LGBT Rotary Club Launches In San Francisco

World's First LGBT Rotary Club Launches In San Francisco - Other projects include “needle walks” to make neighborhoods safer, and an intergenerational LGBT brunch to take place the Friday before San Francisco Pride. The group may have started a trend: De Zordo shared that another LGBT Rotary Club just got its charter in Australia , and that a worldwide .

Meghan Markle steps out at first official Commonwealth event wearing Australian designers

Meghan Markle steps out at first official Commonwealth event wearing Australian designers - The couple met about 40 young leaders, including Commonwealth Youth delegates, past winners of the Queen's Young Leaders Award, as well as Commonwealth LGBT activists at the Commonwealth Youth Forum, including Australian delegate Jacob Thomas. Meghan has just one month until the big ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle speak out in support of LGBT rights

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle speak out in support of LGBT rights - Chatting to young people involved in the Commonwealth Equality Network, Ms Markle stressed the importance of its work challenging inequality based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Jacob Thomas, from Melbourne, Australia , who works with the Network, revealed: “She really laid down the ...

United Nations finds New Zealand has breached the rights of long-term prisoners

United Nations finds New Zealand has breached the rights of long-term prisoners - The United Nations has ruled the rights of two New Zealand rapists have been breached and their preventive detention sentences should be ... Justice minister Andrew Little said if preventive detention was "being administered in a way that breaches people's rights then we need to go back and look at it.

New Zealand's Prime Minister 'Extremely Angry' With People Saying She Is Like Trump

New Zealand's Prime Minister 'Extremely Angry' With People Saying She Is Like Trump - Ardern and Trump met last year at Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Vietnam and the East Asia Summit in the Philippines, both of which took place in November. Ardern later told New Zealand's press that at the latter event, Trump had said in jest that "this lady caused a lot of upset in her country."

Rural GPs urged to build relationships with intellectually disabled patients

Rural GPs urged to build relationships with intellectually disabled patients - The average life expectancy of intellectually disabled New Zealanders is around 20 years shorter than the rest of the population , IHC community advocates say. They also have higher rates of polypharmacy and worse access to healthcare but continuity of care and a strong relationship with health ...

Getting the message across to population

Getting the message across to population - For Chris McBride and Philip Kelly, former members of the collective which ran from 1978 to 1998, it is a fresh look at the collective's archives. "It shows the media, landscape, politics ... is not a neutral thing. "The idea of New Zealand being this neutral space in the South Pacific is erroneous," Kelly says.