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Same-sex penguins raise a baby chick

Same-sex penguins raise a baby chick - At the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium in Australia , true love has found a way for two penguins: Sphen, a seven-year-old male, and his three-year-old male ...

Gay bashing still exists in New Zealand' says LGBT+ activist after violent attack at pride

Gay bashing still exists in New Zealand ' says LGBT+ activist after violent attack at pride - weekend was Auckland's Pride march and festival event the 'Big Gay Out', both celebrating the diversity of New Zealand's LGBT+ population.

Government making good progress on wellbeing

Government making good progress on wellbeing - The Salvation Army has highlighted the importance of addressing disparities facing Maori in New Zealand . This is exactly why this is one of the ...

Māori children disproportionately represented across statistics - report

Māori children disproportionately represented across statistics - report - Are We Safe? report provides an overview of how New Zealand is doing for the ... In particular, there are still large gaps for Māori children who are ...

A great day for Māori doctors: New council chair lights path for equity

A great day for Māori doctors: New council chair lights path for equity -  New Zealand Doctor asked Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa – Māori Medical Practitioners Association (Te ORA) chair David Tipene-Leach to comment on the ...

All students (and MPs) should study NZ's early history at school

All students (and MPs) should study NZ's early history at school - their petition to Parliament, the teachers argue: "Too few New Zealanders have a sound understanding of what brought the Crown and Māori  ...

Kiwi are linked to extinct New Zealand bird

Kiwi are linked to extinct New Zealand bird - The Moa was a huge, flightless bird that was hunted to extinction by the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand called the Maori . The kiwi bird ...

Give us a real reason for hiking price of Tauranga's toll roads

Give us a real reason for hiking price of Tauranga's toll roads -  Māori was made an official language of New Zealand in 1987. Parliament at that time decided that the Māori language should be supported as a ...

Deaths in WA continue after Kimberley Indigenous child suicides

Deaths in WA continue after Kimberley Indigenous child suicides - Deaths in WA continue after Kimberley Indigenous child suicides ... take their lives after a number of suicides in Western Australia's Kimberley region.

Our social security system hurts women with young children

Our social security system hurts women with young children - Yet an entire generation of Australian women is being punished for these ... It targets Australia's Indigenous people in a way which is clearly racist.

Aussie gov't urged to address indigenous youth suicide crisis

Aussie gov't urged to address indigenous youth suicide crisis -  Australia's indigenous health minister has urged the nation's parliament to address youth suicide crisis. Ken Wyatt ...

Structures at Jubullum Aboriginal community destroyed as bushfire emergency grips NSW

Structures at Jubullum Aboriginal community destroyed as bushfire emergency grips NSW - A bushfire in NSW's north east near Casino has destroyed structures in an Indigenous community as firefighters battle two out of control blazes across ...

I think we were born into reconciliation'

I think we were born into reconciliation' - She warned that the media plays an immense role in how non- Indigenous people engage with Indigenous people in Australia , with Indigenous  ...

Lightning strikes at the heart of Addo-Carr's Indigenous heritage

Lightning strikes at the heart of Addo-Carr's Indigenous heritage - Lightning strikes at the heart of Addo-Carr's Indigenous heritage ... both his own community and other towns around Australia with a large Indigenous  ...

Indonesia threatens to block 'naughty' Instagram over gay comic

Indonesia threatens to block 'naughty' Instagram over gay comic - depicts gay men's experiences. It includes one character who is used for sex by numerous men and becomes a hardline anti- LGBTI religious figure.

Gay Malaysian man 'would rather kill himself' than be deported

Gay Malaysian man 'would rather kill himself' than be deported - SUHAKAM, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, warned LGBTI ... Similarly, Sam is a member of Open Table, a Christian LGBTI support ...

Te Whare Wānanga unclear on polytech merger impact

Te Whare Wānanga unclear on polytech merger impact -  New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology would collectively ... wānanga and he intends to meet with Hipkins and Māori Education Minister ...

Council's 2019 Wagga Mardi Gras float entry praised by LGBTI advocates for inclusion message

Council's 2019 Wagga Mardi Gras float entry praised by LGBTI advocates for inclusion message - Rainbow Riverina events coordinator Holly Conroy, who has welcomed Wagga City Council's decision to enter a float in the Wagga Mardi Gras.

Related Docs for School kids compete in rainbow bake-off celebrating LGBTI history month

Related Docs for School kids compete in rainbow bake-off celebrating LGBTI history month - Related Docs for School kids compete in rainbow bake-off celebrating LGBTI history month. Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

Public support helps whānau with housing dilemma

Public support helps whānau with housing dilemma - in giving us a referral to top people at the Ministry of Social Development who do the housing assessments for Housing New Zealand ,” she says.