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Saturday recap : Aboriginal Community

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Saturday recap : Aboriginal Community

Saturday recap : Māori | NZ

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Saturday recap : Māori | NZ

A decade after saying 'sorry', a new generation is struggling

A decade after saying 'sorry', a new generation is struggling - As a jurisdiction, the ACT is a leader in that we have enshrined Indigenous Australians ' unique rights and cultural heritage in law by amending the ...

Indigenous performers mine stereotypes and realise their comedy dreams

Indigenous performers mine stereotypes and realise their comedy dreams - Black Comedy brings Indigenous humour to the masses in a different way. An Australian sketch comedy that's made it to a third season is a minor ...

Get over it': Morrison says people should move on from leadership change – as it happened

Get over it': Morrison says people should move on from leadership change – as it happened - “ Australia is a secular country and we have had a separation of church and state. ... They are securing our borders; they are keeping Australians safe and .... in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody;.

After Turnbull's visit, Tennant Creek had hope. Will Abbott keep promises made?

After Turnbull's visit, Tennant Creek had hope. Will Abbott keep promises made? - The situation in Tennant Creek is a microcosm of the challenges facing hundreds of Aboriginal community organisations across Australia .

Why Australia should back off the Brisbane schoolgirl who refused to stand for the national anthem

Why Australia should back off the Brisbane schoolgirl who refused to stand for the national anthem - Harper told The Courier-Mail the line in the national anthem, “for we are young and free”, disregarded Aboriginals who had lived in Australia for tens of ...

Community 'reeling' after two boys who drowned in Swan River

Community 'reeling' after two boys who drowned in Swan River -  Aboriginal Legal Service chief executive Dennis Eggington said some of the ... by another generation of Australia that denigrates Aboriginal people.”.

Victoria's LGBTI Roadshow receives an extra $1 million in funding

Victoria's LGBTI Roadshow receives an extra $1 million in funding - Victoria's LGBTI Roadshow receives an extra $1 million in funding ... The new funding will help the LGBTI Roadshow enter its next stage which ...

Greens Pass Motion In The Senate Condemning 'Gay Conversion' Therapy

Greens Pass Motion In The Senate Condemning ' Gay Conversion' Therapy - The motion condemned “all forms of gender and sexual orientation change efforts” and called on the federal government to advocate Australia's states ...

Western Australia Passes Law To Allow Expungement Of Historical Gay Convictions

Western Australia Passes Law To Allow Expungement Of Historical Gay Convictions - Western Australia has passed laws to allow people charged under unjust homosexual laws to have the convictions removed from their criminal ...

Gay sex ruling to free India's 'pink economy'

Gay sex ruling to free India's 'pink economy' - They represent one of the world's largest LGBT markets," Ian Johnson, the founder of the Australia -based Out Now Consulting, told AFP. He predicts ...

Māori tourism leaders added to industry body

Māori tourism leaders added to industry body - Two leaders in the Māori tourism sector have been appointed to the board of Tourism New Zealand. Colleen Neville is chief executive of Te Arawa ...

Heart Foundation research funding hits $70 million

Heart Foundation research funding hits $70 million - These include a vaccine that could potentially prevent rheumatic fever in New Zealand, a kaupapa Māori nutrition research project for cardiovascular ...

Thousands march in hikoi for Te wiki o te reo Māori

Thousands march in hikoi for Te wiki o te reo Māori - Thousands of people have marched through central Auckland for a hīkoi supporting te wiki o te reo Māori . Local kura kaupapa students, teachers and ...

So, where are we at with learning te reo in schools?

So, where are we at with learning te reo in schools? - Phrases like 'kia ora' have come to embody that sense of warmth and Kiwi welcome. But how many of us could carry on that conversation in Māori , ...

The great timber heist, illegal logging and tax evasion in Papua New Guinea

The great timber heist, illegal logging and tax evasion in Papua New Guinea -  Papua New Guinea's rainforest, the third largest in the world, is being ... hunting, fishing and gathering, people are highly dependent on the forests for ...

Church leaders want more protection for native Papuans

Church leaders want more protection for native Papuans - Church leaders and activists in Indonesia's restive Papua province have called ... It must be done so that people think twice before coming to Papua .".

First Contact': TV docuseries seeks to shatter Indigenous Canadian stereotypes

First Contact': TV docuseries seeks to shatter Indigenous Canadian stereotypes - That show came out of a study that was done which indicated that only 1 in 6 non- Indigenous Australians had ever had contact with Indigenous  ...