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Black Lives Matter leader talks of painful parallels with Indigenous Australia

Black Lives Matter leader talks of painful parallels with Indigenous Australia - He sees similarities in the experiences of Indigenous Australia and black America: in the historical dispossession and dislocation, and in the ...

Domestic violence prevention brings together Indigenous men and women in outback community

Domestic violence prevention brings together Indigenous men and women in outback community - Domestic violence is not an issue unique to Indigenous communities. On average, an Australian woman dies every week at the hands of a current or ...

Remote work-for-the-dole scheme has 'devastating' impact on Indigenous people, say participants

Remote work-for-the-dole scheme has 'devastating' impact on Indigenous people, say participants - Ms Ulah, who lives in the remote Aboriginal community of Warburton, Western Australia , had been away without a mobile phone and had missed ...

Saving A Critically Endangered Aboriginal language in Australia

Saving A Critically Endangered Aboriginal language in Australia - Indigenous elders in central Australia are leading efforts to save a critically endangered language. Of the estimated 300 Indigenous languages that ...

I Can't Breathe': Video of Indigenous Australian's Prison Death Stirs Outrage

I Can't Breathe': Video of Indigenous Australian's Prison Death Stirs Outrage - David Dungay Jr., a prisoner at a Sydney jail, told the guards pinning him to his bed that he couldn't breathe, according to a ...

Harrowing video footage shows death in custody of Aboriginal man

Harrowing video footage shows death in custody of Aboriginal man - Harrowing video footage shows death in custody of Aboriginal man ... Shocking video footage of the death in custody of an Indigenous Australian man ...

Belarus: New low as authorities slap solo LGBTI protester with fine for 'mass' protest

Belarus: New low as authorities slap solo LGBTI protester with fine for 'mass' protest - The Belarusian authorities have hit an absurd new low in persecuting peaceful LGBTI activists, Amnesty International said today after a court in Minsk ...

This is why a gay MP is calling for another referendum on Brexit

This is why a gay MP is calling for another referendum on Brexit - For LGBTI Brits, like Greening, there is an added danger. Gay Star News's exclusive Brexit report has found LGBTI people will be left vulnerable.

Are education systems LGBTI-inclusive?

Are education systems LGBTI -inclusive? - A global consultation on the LGBTI vision for how to make the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda for education and health more inclusive, ...

How an Australian LGBTIQA+ activist's quest for change led to an encounter with Duchess Meghan

How an Australian LGBTIQA+ activist's quest for change led to an encounter with Duchess Meghan -  Australian LGBTIQA+ activist Jacob Thomas made headlines earlier this ... "A lot of us in Australia are still recovering from the [ same-sex marriage] ...

Pay for it yourselves': NZ First MP Shane Jones savages hapū's Papatūānuku proposal

Pay for it yourselves': NZ First MP Shane Jones savages hapū's Papatūānuku proposal -  NZ First MP Shane Jones has savaged a proposal for a giant statue of ... an appropriate expression of Maori identity, or indeed New Zealand identity.".

Govt shares Dr O'Sullivan's concerns for state of public homes

Govt shares Dr O'Sullivan's concerns for state of public homes - Government says they share Dr Lance O'Sullivan's concerns about the state of public and private homes in which New Zealand children are living.

Work underway to tackle recycling and waste problems in Aotearoa

Work underway to tackle recycling and waste problems in Aotearoa - At a conference run by Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) over the weekend, the association voted to support several proposals to tackle the ...

Māori voices rising in local government

Māori voices rising in local government - Local Government New Zealand is holding its annual conference in ... Bonita Bingham from the association's Te Maruata Māori subgroup says despite ...

First Trailer for Maori Doc 'Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen'

First Trailer for Maori Doc 'Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen' - See the first trailer for a documentary premiering at the 2018 New Zealand Film Festival titled Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen. The film is a ...

Can Māori and Pacific people use the n-word?

Can Māori and Pacific people use the n-word? - The thing is, I've heard Māori people use the n-word my whole life. ... It was really common in the Pacific, it was most common in New Zealand at ...

Tasmanian orphanages with dark history being reclaimed for a new purpose

Tasmanian orphanages with dark history being reclaimed for a new purpose - Cheryl Mundy's great-great grandmother, renowned Tasmanian Aboriginal woman Fanny Cochrane Smith, and Ms Cochrane Smith's brother Adam ...

Canberra's Indigenous rangers take park management back in time

Canberra's Indigenous rangers take park management back in time - preserve Aboriginal heritage sites, conducting cultural burns, and enthusiastically sharing their knowledge of ancient Australia with school groups.

Pedestrians are seven times more likely to be killed in the NT — especially those who are Indigenous

Pedestrians are seven times more likely to be killed in the NT — especially those who are Indigenous - But service providers are not surprised by the statistics, explaining that there are a range of factors putting Indigenous Australians in particular at risk.

Students pitch in to honour Indigenous soldiers

Students pitch in to honour Indigenous soldiers - A mosaic mural dedicated to Indigenous Australians who fought in war is being created with help from a Catholic primary school in Melbourne.