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Mounts and mountains both engrossing - The New Zealand Horse goes a long way towards proving writer Deborah ... the affinity of Maori with these strange new beasts, the horses at war and at the ... The New Zealand Horse has almost 400 pages and there is a superb ...

Top things to see and do in Wellington, New Zealand - Known in Maori as Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand offers a comprehensive look at the history, indigenous culture, flora, and fauna ...

Hundreds of Māori students missing out on education programme - An academic course for Māori high school students is proving so popular .... and travels back to New Zealand frequently to support the programme.

Landmark moments for LGBT history in 2018 - In New Zealand , pride festivities this year were particularly eventful. Auckland Pride march saw for the first time the participation of the country's prime ...

Minister again fails Māori students - Under National Māori students achieving NCEA Level 2 increased from 44 per cent to over 74 per cent - an increase of around 30 per cent. We are ...

Christmas breakfast to be held for isolated LGBTI people in Melbourne - Christmas breakfast to be held for isolated LGBTI people in Melbourne. –

Gay affirming Church launches a day to Christmas in Uganda - They claim to provide pastoral care for LGBTI people and support pioneering efforts to establish an open an affirming African Christian movement.

It lasted less than a month: the LGBTI monument was destroyed - Combined Movement and Homosexual Leave (Movilh) said today that the first LGBTI monument that was inserted in Santa Lucia Hill was attacked by ...

Evangelicals Block Cuban Marriage Equality For Now - people will say, nor as far as we already [advanced] it from the activism for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people ( LGBTI ).”.

Merry Christmas! Here are some things to be cheerful about on Christmas Day 2018 in New Zealand - Health survey results show smoke-free New Zealand obtainable .... More than half of New Zealanders say te reo Māori should be a core subject in ...

Keeping road safe for Christmas - Caroline Perry, Kaiwhakahaere of Brake NZ says, "We know there are lots of people who will be heading off on the roads to see family and friends for ...

Christmas kai guest double for 2018 - The food is hot, the smiles wide and cheer is in the air at New Zealand's biggest Christmas lunch. Six hundred volunteers survived 2000 people.

NZDF soldiers celebrate Xmas aboard - Two hundred and twenty New Zealand Defence Force staff will be serving overseas ... She says Māori culture has found a place in their work culture.

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Kidney failure on the rise in Australians under 50 with type 2 diabetes - Kidney failure on the rise in Australians under 50 with type 2 diabetes ... A study of more than 1.3 million Australians with diabetes has found that kidney ... in Indigenous people compared to non- Indigenous people and those living in ...

Indigenous deaths in custody report 'largely worthless', academics say - an open letter published by the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University on Thursday, 32 academics ...

Ancient DNA Analysis Could Return Aboriginal Remains to Native Peoples - Scores of Aboriginal Australians were taken from their homelands when Europeans colonized Australia . And today, native peoples and their ...

Australia and its Aboriginal prison population - But as Jenny Munro, Wiradjuri nation, has stated: “[A]s from time immemorial, we believe as Aboriginal people, Australia has been here from the first ...

Cairns Post counts down FNQ's five most beautiful people - Holland is a former Miss World Australia , beating 32 finalists to the title in July ... Jarron got his first break at Cairns Indigenous Art Fair and has since ...

Keeping Yawuru language alive - The Walalangga Yawuru Ngan-ga language program involves daily ... The importance of preserving and reviving Australia's Aboriginal and Torres ...

LGBTI inclusive sex education may become compulsory in Irish schools - Setting Australia's LGBTI agenda since 1979» ... LGBTI inclusive sex education may become compulsory in Irish schools. Setting Australia's LGBTI  ...

A Gay's Life' provides insights into life of LGBTI people in China -  Video game 'A Gay's Life' provides insights into life of LGBTI people in China. The Chinese-language game, created by Huang Gaole, is based on his ...

Another Blood Shortage, But Almost 300000 Australians Can't Donate - Once again, Australia is in danger of running out of blood, and yet almost 300,000 members of the public are unable to donate thanks to what ...

Did cutting of aid to Tanzania help to change its homophobic policies? - Even though African LGBTI advocates protested the move, the World Bank and Denmark cut aid to Tanzania because of its homophobic policies.

Celebrating success of Māori women 125 years after the vote - Tonight, an event celebrating the achievements of Māori women will be ... In 1893, the Women's Suffrage movement gave New Zealand women the ...

Survey reveals volume and nature of crimes committed in New Zealand last year - Of those who said they had been victims of crime, Māori and young people aged 20-29 made up the biggest numbers, while those over 65 were least ...

Ngāti Hine invest in Kiwifruit orchards - Ngāti Hine iwi members are set to benefit as the iwi works to build its asset base by exploring investment into Kiwifruit orchards. The Ngāti Hine ...

Birth education programme based on Māori practices kicks off in top of the south - General manager of Maori health and vulnerable populations Ditre Tamatea said over 80 per cent of Maori whanau in New Zealand did not access ...

New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute another step closer to iwi ownership - An internationally-famous tourism business in Rotorua is a step closer to iwi ownership after the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute Vesting ...

Former Māori Party MP Marama Fox admits drink-driving - Former Māori Party co-leader Marama Fox has admitted a charge of drink-driving. Fox appeared in the ... However, 250mcg is the new legal limit.

Prison guards lose bid to avoid giving evidence over Aboriginal death in custody - Prison guards will be required to give evidence over the death of an Aboriginal man in custody, after arguing that doing so could lead to criminal ...

Jessica Mauboy Tops End Of Year 2018 National Indigenous Music Chart - The charts, which were founded in November this year, create a weekly list of Australia's most heard Indigenous tracks using data supplied by ...

Indigenous knight's legacy lives on - Nicholls died in 1988 at 81, was the first Indigenous Australian to be knighted (for “distinguished services to the advancement of the Aboriginal  ...

The ugly past of Australia's 'lock hospitals' on Bernier and Dorre Islands slowly revealed - Between 1908 and 1919, more than 800 Aboriginal men, women and children were removed from their homelands across Western Australia and ...

Indigenous scholar shows art centres support health and wellbeing -  Indigenous scholar shows art centres support health and wellbeing ... “ Australia's art centre model has evolved from being craft and hobby drop-in ...

The Best Aboriginal Names for Your Baby - But now, it says, indigenous Australian names are becoming increasingly popular. SBS's Karina .... In other Aboriginal languages it can mean old tree.

Trump administration may end disciplinary protections for minority students - Only multi-racial, Native American, and Alaskan Native LGBTI student reported feeling unsafe due to their sexuality more than white LGBTI students.

15+ adorable photos of gay parent families getting ready for the holidays - All over the world, LGBTI parents and their kids are preparing for the holidays. Enjoy a few of their family photos and insights into what makes the ...

Inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crime could improve how police and communities respond - This provided an alleged “ homosexual advance” was a partial defence to murder; South Australia is now the only state to maintain this defence.

Same-sex couple create gay wedding Barbie doll set for niece - It's not the first time Barbie has been given a makeover to reflect gay couples as Australian doll artist Betty Strachan-Otter created a lesbian family set ...

Alien Weaponry Have Hit America Just In Time - The three New Zealander teens of the Māori thrash-metal act have just ... many of which are sung in New Zealand's indigenous Māori language.

Forced Māori representation not the answer - The collection of essays, which takes the same name as his Te Ao Māori politics and current affairs analysis site Māui Street, provides interesting ...

Maori voices hidden from mental health inquiry - There's outrage that the secretariat assisting the Mental Health and Addictions inquiry withheld reports detailing the concerns of Māori . This month's ...

Biculturalism in our national museum can't be a one-way conversation - Puawai Cairns, head of mātauranga Māori for Te Papa museum, writes about what biculturalism can and should mean in an institution like a museum.

Māori and Pasifika students to benefit from Lincoln scholarships - Lincoln University is upping its efforts to boost the number of Māori and Pasifika students by introducing a suite of new scholarships. The $5000 ...

Te Rōpu ready to set anti violence strategy - The Maori advisory group to the Government's joint venture on family violence and sexual violence has been named, Prue Kapua will chair the panel ...

Five indigenous women join list of medical graduates from University of WA - There have been 49 indigenous medical graduates from UWA, including Australia's first indigenous doctor, Helen Milroy, who graduated in 1983.

Australia to be Divided into Two Nations, New Novel Prophesizes - The southern government has returned a large western area of New South Wales to the ownership of the indigenous population in which to live in ...

The Best Aboriginal Names for Your Baby - But now, it says, indigenous Australian names are becoming increasingly ... of a bush plum tree which grows in the Kimberley, in Western Australia .

The 1959 true crime episodic that saved a man's life and launched Rupert Murdoch's career - It also had an impact on Australia , it sparked a campaign against the death sentence and helped Australia to make Indigenous rights an issue.".

Social media saves Christmas in Minyerri after gifts for remote Indigenous children destroyed - Christmas in the remote Indigenous community of Minyerri, 250 kilometres south-east of Katherine, is a far cry from the extravagance enjoyed by many ...

US Senator Cory Booker addresses persistent gay rumors - Who Booker is, is an ally to the LGBTI community. When same-sex marriage became legal in New Jersey on 21 October 2013, Booker officiated nine ...

Transgender Indonesians fear for the future as election looms - The run-up to next spring's general election in Indonesia has transgender citizens fearing for their safety as anti- LGBTI rhetoric sweeps parts of the ...

Nick Cave's art installation is the one thing to see in Sydney right now - Five local artists have contributed to the piece, too, placing Until among the context of Australia's Indigenous plight. Blackface lawn jockeys — a ...

Once were gardeners, lovers and poets – not warriors - this lecture, Moana, in his calm, factual, and grippingly clear manner, lays out the means by which we as Māori have come to be cast as violent ...

Te Reo Māori Financial Glossary - As part of the Bank's strategic priority to broaden it's engagement with it's stakeholders, the Reserve Bank is establishing a glossary of Te Reo Māori  ...

Disney actor fired for allegedly attemping to have sex with a minor - Westmoreland appeared in the LGBTI -inclusive series Andi Mack. The show made history last year when it aired the channel's first ever coming out ...

LGBTI people now have an online advisory centre - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersexual people ( LGBTI ) can now visit a place that offers them support along with social, psychological and ...

The world's only natural black blondes - The region comprises most of the islands immediately north and northeast of Australia, including the countries of Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, ...

Military to continue crackdown on rebels in Papua despite local criticism - Military to continue crackdown on rebels in Papua despite local criticism ... When there are people who declare hostility against the government, it is ...

Māori Climate Commissioner denounces UN climate talk appeasement in Poland -  Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, has denounced the UN Climate talks in Poland as morally despicable and a wasted opportunity ...

A Māori community leans on tradition in regaining custody of its forest - The bush-clad region surrounding this valley is known as the Tuawhenua, and it's part of the homeland of Tūhoe, an iwi tribe) of the Māori indigenous ...

Māori advisory to Govt's JV on family, sexual violence begins work - Te Rōpū marks a significant change to the way Government works with Māori to address some of our most complex and difficult problems,” says Jan ...

One-stop shop for Māori -Crown relations - As Treaty settlements draw to a close, the Government has created a one-stop shop to address major issues and policies affecting Māori . The new ...

In Australia photographed red-eyed Bigfoot - It is reported that the video filmed in Australia and the author of the ... The aboriginal word “Yovi” in Australia called the local equivalent of the Yeti ...

Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia - When you begin searching for traces of past South Asians in Australia, .... most extraordinary accounts of South Asians were in Australian Aboriginal  ...

A taste of Aboriginal culture in Sydney - Given that indigenous Australians thrived here for at least 60,000 years before Europeans rocked up, the answer to 'what's for lunch?' is plenty.

Labor in bid to gain more indigenous members - South Australia has established an Aboriginal Labor Network that meets regularly with the main goal of contributing, in accordance with Labor values, ...

Christmas breakfast to be held for isolated LGBTI people in Melbourne - Drummond Street Services and Queerspace are holding a free breakfast for members of the LGBTI community in a Melbourne park on 25th December ...

End hate crimes against LGBTI persons - The government of Malaysia should pass legislation to hold perpetrators of hate crimes accountable and further protect the rights of LGBTI  ...

I want to tell my children': The history hidden in Berndt's notebooks - In a world where much of the 60,000-year-old story of Indigenous Australians is in danger of fading away, Vince Copley knows the history of his ...

Responses sought for survey into workplace sexual harassment of LGBTI people - Setting Australia's LGBTI agenda since 1979. ... A survey into LGBTI people's experience of sexual harassment is being run by the LGBTIQ Legal ...

LGBTI activist in India stuns the internet by performing in drag with his mother - Indian hotelier and LGBTI activist Keshav Suri set social media on fire this weekend by uploading a photo of him performing in drag with his mother.

Hong Kong's only gay lawmaker victim of online smear campaign - In July, however, Hong Kong's LGBTI had a reason to celebrate. The Court of Final Appeal ruled the immigration department must recognize overseas ...

What should first-home buyers ask the bank? - My partner is from overseas so he's not very clued up on the New Zealand ... Some lenders offer sweeteners to entice people to sign up with them.

' Maori ' New Zealand's most searched word - Pornhub 2018: ' Maori ' New Zealand's most searched word ... Despite ranking 126th worldwide for population , New Zealand is ranked 27th worldwide ...

Census 2018 – Heads should roll, incompetence reigns - The New Zealand Maori Council has poured scorn on Statistics New Zealand for what is turning out to be an embarrassing waste of resources, money ...