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Surprise te reo Māori finding in prediabetes research - New research from the Healthier Lives National Science Challenge has found people who speak te reo Māori have a reduced risk of progressing from ...

It's time NZ children went on strike to shame adults over climate change inaction -  Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, says now is the time for Children to shame adults into climate change action. "On March 15th ...

Deep sea mining threatens indigenous culture in Papua New Guinea - For the people of the Duke of York Islands, deep sea mining disturbs a sense of who they are, including the spirits that inhabit their culture and beliefs.

Papua New Guinea — Land of the Unexpected - Why Papua New Guinea?” is often the first question people ask us when they learn we've traveled to this remote country. The next question is usually, ...

Indigenous art the turning point for how Australians see themselves - That Australia has somehow learnt to accept Aboriginal art as being Australian and able to be shown in lots of different contexts is partly due to the skill ...

Aboriginals over-represented in protection -  Aboriginal children and young people remain over-represented in child protection substantiations and out-of-home care, according to the Victorian ...

Missing Aboriginal bushman Harold Morton survives 17 days alone in the outback - Mr Morton's brother, Nigel Morton, told The Australian Harold Morton had survived by eating bush tucker and was now safely home with family.

Perth's Wildflower Experience gives a true sense of Australia - Over 300 types of Western Australia's unique flora, from orchids to she-oaks, can be found in Kings Park. Many have great significance to the ...

Linda Burney portrait unveiled: not just another painting of a suit - a portrait of the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to federal parliament. In a further touch, Rae painted the Aboriginal flag onto Burney's ring.

Indigenous treaty talks 'won't lead people astray' - We've got a problem with the foundation of Australia as a nation,” he said. “It's fundamentally flawed, and a treaty is an opportunity to fix that problem.

In The Game: Non-binary, trans and queer identities in sport - Simon Thuijs, founder of Perth Pythons LGBTI hockey club and mastermind behind the inaugural Perth Pride Sports Festival, said “To be really ...

How Queensland Police Service's LGBTI Liaison Officers Are Making A Difference - QNews Magazine talks to three LGBTI Liaison Officers in the Queensland Police Service who provide support and assistance to our community in ...

New evidence given to Tel Aviv police in unsolved LGBTI youth club shooting - The attack was described at the time as the worst anti- LGBTI attack in the country's history. This led to one of the biggest investigations in Israeli history ...

LGBTI domestic violence prevention resource Say It Out Loud receives federal funding - Say It Out Loud, an LGBTI domestic and family violence prevention campaign run by ACON, will be expanded nationally following a $340,000 funding ...

Community health, education and care is key to Maori nursing graduates - Two South Canterbury Maori nursing graduates hope to give back to the ... the Ministry looks at with regards to Maori grads for our Maori population .

King makes case for kindness - Mental health campaigner and Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Mike King has a message for Māori - take more care of your own. The former ...

Infant mortality rate drops - A fall in infant mortality for Māori has brought some of the lowest-ever infant mortality rates for New Zealand's total and Māori populations. Statistics NZ ...

Tech, science and Mātauranga Māori a powerful force -  Māori are enjoying a stellar year of innovation, with record numbers engaging in R&D, and making up nearly half the finalists in this year's New ...

How Australia made poisoning animals normal - Marsden went on to introduce sheep to New Zealand, followed by the mysterious disappearance of the Maori kuri dog in following ...

Australia Faces Another Border Security Election: QuickTake - The governments of Nauru and Papua New Guinea, which host the camps for Australia, say about 80 percent of the people they have processed are ...

Aboriginal foster parents needed to help increasing number of Aboriginal kids in out-of-home care - But a new program in Western Australia aims to in part address the problem by recruiting more Aboriginal carers. It is led by Life Without Barriers, ...

Free flu vaccines for Aboriginal children and $12 million to boost immunisation - The Liberal National Government will ensure 170,000 Aboriginal and ... I am proud to say that Australia's child immunisation rates are at record levels.

Aboriginal man facing deportation to NZ despite having no ties to country - My mum is Aboriginal – she's from South Australia . All my kids are Aboriginal , my missus is Aboriginal , and they're trying to send me to a foreign ...

Children under the age of 10 are sexually assaulting other kids in troubled Northern Territory towns - Another case involved a 14-year-old boy from South Australia's remote Aboriginal lands who was charged with the sexual assault of a child, believed ...

Prestigious private school teacher disciplined over insensitive Aboriginal culture lesson - of the nine-year-old students, telling them they could now relate to how Aboriginal Australians felt when they had everything taken away from them.

Adult literacy lessons transforming Aboriginal communities - The greatest gift that we as Australia can possibly give Aboriginal children is literate parents because if you have literate parents you're much more ...

55 Shades of Gay premiers in New York City - The play, which is subtitled the Balkan Spring of Sexual Revolution, is a comedy centered around LGBTI politics in the Balkans, and first premiered in ...

Labor opposed bid to protect gay students - Labor rejected a key recommendation that would have stopped LGBTI students from being expelled or denied enrolment from religious schools in an ...

LGBTI people with disability to champion public transport accessibility this Mardi Gras -  LGBTI people with disability will show their pride and raise awareness of public transport accessibility on the 'Fearless Express' at Mardi Gras this year ...

Courtney Act wows with first Dancing With The Stars Australia same-sex pairing - Courtney is the franchise's first drag act, but not the first same-sex pairing. Courtney is the first in Australia . The show's Italian equivalent, Ballando con ...

Policy of Jokowi`s infrastructure development could be felt by community - According to him, Jokowi also realized infrastructure development in Papua to ... is also felt by the people of Eastern Indonesia, including in Papua .

Report about Maori Nationalist organisations a “crock” -  Maori Council. The New Zealand Maori Council has called on the Department of Corrections to name names in a confidential internal ...

NZ Maori Council launches National Taskforce on Education - New Zealand Maori Council. New Zealand Maori Council launches new National Taskforce on Education the goal: create lifelong ...

Some of the thousands of people you should interview before Jordan Peterson - She runs the Hetet School of Māori Art. Veranoa has a BA in Maori Design and Art, an advanced certificate in Tertiary teaching and more than 30 ...

Prison scare story debunked - Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has asked his department for a please explain over a claim so called Māori nationalist groups in prison could be a ...

Rangatira skills brought to Medical Council - High hopes in the Māori medical profession with the election of Curtis Walker to chair the New Zealand Medical Council. David Tipene Leach from the ...

German Health Minister confirms plans to ban gay 'cure' therapy - Many places have already introduced bans on the discredited practice of gay 'cure' therapy, including Malta and the Victoria state in Australia .

Mardi Gras 2019: 'It doesn't matter who you love, we are all the same' - It's here in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras workshop that Liz ... A runner-up on the first season of So You Think You Can Dance Australia , ...

The conservative politician fighting for gay rights in Japan - The conservative politician fighting for gay rights in Japan .... While other developed countries, including the U.S., Australia and most of western ...

13 International Stories You Need to Know About - Two new stage productions explore gay parenting: 'On the London stage, you are still much more likely to see a show about the AIDS ..... AUSTRALIA .

Where are the Pasifika and Māori skilled tradies? - New school to cater to the rising demand for tradies in Auckland ... inequalities in the workforce was a matter of urgency for New Zealand as a whole.

Why Walker did not sing anthem; Meninga pushing for referendum - This was a different case in contrast to the Maori Side, who gave an inspiring performance of God Defend New Zealand , representing both the native ...

Te Papa's new nature zone biggest change in 21 years - Te Papa has today unveiled details of its new nature zone, the biggest change to ... Western science with mātauranga Māori , or traditional Māori knowledge. ... else in the world and every New Zealander should see it for themselves.

Parade organisers missed the meaning of pride - There has never been a better time to be LGBT in New Zealand , but to the Pride board that was not worthy of celebrating. This year's "walk" was a ...

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What are the causes of Indigenous suicides? - Dr Tracy Westerman is a proud Njamal woman from the Pilbara region of Western Australia . Tracy is the Western Australia's Australian of the Year for ...

Close the Gap report promotes education strategies for Indigenous Australia - The latest iteration of the Close the Gap report has been handed down, with the principle focus now on improving Indigenous education and high ...

Closing the gap is a major problem in Canberra too - As the PM conceded, on almost every measure we're failing as a nation to close the gap between indigenous and non- indigenous Australians .

Australia admits 'failing' to improve Aboriginal lives -  More than a decade after vowing to "close the gap" between indigenous Australians and the rest of the country, the government on Thursday admitted ...

Closing the Gap off track, refresh looming -  Indigenous Australians will play a greater role in efforts to close the health and education gap, through a formal partnership with both the federal and ...

Adelaide Fringe opens with street party, indigenous installations on War Memorial Drive and Torrens - Torrens riverbanks will be transformed into an illuminating experience, both culturally and visually, for tonight's Adelaide Fringe opening spectacular, ...

Two trans women murdered in one week in El Salvador - The LGBTI community in El Salvador is on edge after the violent murders of two trans women in one week. It brings the total of trans murders this year ...

Advocates slam Fed Gov's failure on LGBTI students in religious schools - On this day of love, the Government's Valentine's Day gift to LGBTI people is continued discrimination, prejudice and hate.” – Rodney Croome.

Government pushes off issue of discrimination in schools - The federal government has pushed off any further debate on changing the exemptions to the anti-discrimination laws that allow LGBTI students and ...

Women's March in Malaysia to push for LGBTI rights -  Organizers of Malaysia's women's march are pushing to protect LGBTI ... It comes amid a crackdown on LGBTI citizens and rising violence against ...

Kaupapa Māori framework key for justice reform - The head of Restorative Justice NZ says the Government needs to embrace more Māori -led initiatives if it is to get the reform it is wanting in the ...

Sallies clear smoke over racism in system - A call by the Salvation Army for targeted programmes addressing Māori disadvantage has been endorsed by Greens' co-leader Marama Davidson.

Māori view added to Treasury tool kit - Deputy director Di Grennell says it draws on the work of thinkers like Professor Sir Mason Durie and Rose Pere, and was reviewed by the Māori  ...

IMSB keen to promote Māori builders - Auckland's Independent Māori Statutory Board wants to see more Māori involvement in fixing the city's housing problems. The board last night ...

Blair's pledge to Maori people - New Zealand Maori captain Adam Blair says he's determined not to let his people down in the Harvey Norman All Stars clash against the Indigenous ...

Iwi exhibitions give Te Papa unique edge - He says the character of the museum has been enhanced by its iwi exhibition programme, which has ensured Māori have been engaged with its work.

Ethical traveller: Not for the faint hearted - The tour offers an authentic glimpse at arguably Australia's most untouched and isolated Aboriginal communities, where they have kept tradition close ...

The Stolen Generation That Never Stopped - since then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally “acknowledged” the suffering caused by decades of mistreatment towards Indigenous Australians .

The show that's busting myths about Kimberley Aboriginal art - The Art Gallery of Western Australia is now showcasing Desert, River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley, an exhibition of Aboriginal artwork from ...

This is where Queensland is still missing the mark on Closing the Gap - Latest available data shows Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queenslanders now have the highest life expectancy in Australia for Aboriginal and ...

The heartbreaking crisis facing Indigenous children - For Indigenous Australians suicide has reached epidemic proportions, particularly in the last 20 years. Suicide is now one of the greatest threats to the ...

Preston Campbell lauds Sydney Kings for embracing indigenous concept - The Sydney Kings will play host to four of Australia's finest indigenous success stories when they take on Cairns in their Indigenous match-up on ...

Tony Abbott, who opposed equal marriage, now claims he 'made it happen' - Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who fought tooth-and-nail against same-sex marriage, is now claiming credit for the reform.

LGBTI students ask Australia's parliament for safer schools - government launched the review to placate conservatives after Australia legalized same-sex marriage late last year. 'These laws tell youth to hide ...

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 -  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 - 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 - 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 -  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 ... take their lives after a number of suicides in Western Australia's Kimberley region.