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NSW Police investigating four alleged assaults on LGBTI people during Mardi Gras

NSW Police investigating four alleged assaults on LGBTI people during Mardi Gras - New South Wales police are reportedly investigating at least four assaults on LGBTI people over Mardi Gras weekend. The attacks saw men pushed ...

US Spent Millions Training Cameroon Forces to Hunt Boko Haram. They're Hunting Gays Instead.

US Spent Millions Training Cameroon Forces to Hunt Boko Haram. They're Hunting Gays Instead. - As reported by the international advocacy group Erasing 76 Crimes, which focuses on abuses in more than 70 countries that have anti- LGBTI laws, ...

New respiratory disease 2018 impact report figures

New respiratory disease 2018 impact report figures -  Māori mortality rates remain highest of all ethnic groups - new impact report launched • New Te Reo Māori children's show launches in Rotorua

Capital Gains Tax would hurt Māori and Pacific entrepreneurs

Capital Gains Tax would hurt Māori and Pacific entrepreneurs - Capital Gains Tax would hurt Māori and Pacific entrepreneurs ... gains tax would put a brake on the economic aspirations of Māori and Pacific people.

Call for NZ-style Indigenous council reform

Call for NZ-style Indigenous council reform - For the past 10 years, every decision made by authorities at Auckland Council in New Zealand has been measured against benefits for Maori people ...

Merata Mita was the first Maori woman to make feature films. Her son tells her story.

Merata Mita was the first Maori woman to make feature films. Her son tells her story. - In the documentary feature “Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen,” Heperi Mita chronicles the work of the first Māori woman to write and direct a ...

Māori at higher risk of asthma death

Māori at higher risk of asthma death -  Māori are more likely to die from asthma and respiratory disease than other ethnic groups, according to the latest report from the Asthma and ...

New survey shows Māori support for legal cannabis

New survey shows Māori support for legal cannabis - The Green Party welcome the survey on Māori support for legalisation and regulation of cannabis released today, says Green Party Māori  ...

The $50 billion Māori economy is nowhere big enough

The $50 billion Māori economy is nowhere big enough - It often amazes me that when we speak of the Māori economy we do not talk about what comprises the Māori economy, how it is supporting the Māori  ...

A testament to Australia's indigenous people, and to an artist

A testament to Australia's indigenous people, and to an artist - recent years, his imagination was sparked by the culture of a people who could hardly live farther away: Australia's Aboriginal people.

The gruesome end of 'King Billy', Tasmania's last full blood Aboriginal man

The gruesome end of 'King Billy', Tasmania's last full blood Aboriginal man - is 150 years since March 3, 1869, when King Billy died and his body was dismembered in a gruesome fight between England and colonial Australia  ..

The untold story of King Bungaree: How the first Australian to sail around the continent lies buried ...

The untold story of King Bungaree: How the first Australian to sail around the continent lies buried ... - Bungaree, who circumnavigated Australia with Captain Matthew Flinders in 1802-03, was for many years the most famous Aborigine in the New South ...

No matter your skin colour, all non-Indigenous Australians are complicit in colonialism

No matter your skin colour, all non- Indigenous Australians are complicit in colonialism - Did it include Indigenous Australians from country beyond their borders? Non- Indigenous Australians of any skin colour? Or did the word explicitly ...

Artist Allan Giddy's installation will travel nationally during International Year of Indigenous ...

Artist Allan Giddy's installation will travel nationally during International Year of Indigenous ... - Poetry for the Botanic Garden installation was created by Aboriginal ... The funding from both Create NSW and the Australia Council for the Arts will ...

ParentsNext breaches Australia's human rights obligations, inquiry told

ParentsNext breaches Australia's human rights obligations, inquiry told - ParentsNext breaches Australia's human rights obligations, inquiry told ... women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians , according to ...

South-east Asia rethinks its sexist textbooks

South-east Asia rethinks its sexist textbooks - Homosexuality is described as an illness or abnormality, and students are encouraged to stay away from LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ...

Award-winning gay Indian feature film screening on Netflix

Award-winning gay Indian feature film screening on Netflix - Earlier this year, it also became the first LGBTI -themed movie released in theaters following decriminalization of gay sex. India's Supreme Court in ...

X Factor Malta host makes passionate plea against LGBTI conversion therapy

X Factor Malta host makes passionate plea against LGBTI conversion therapy - Camille argued people often talk about giving the option for LGBTI people to change their sexuality if they want to. But no one ever talks about the fact ...

Meet five 'Fearless' community leaders making Sydney's LGBTI community better to live in

Meet five 'Fearless' community leaders making Sydney's LGBTI community better to live in -  I've never needed to think about whether I should march against discrimination, or raise funds during the AIDS crisis, or open the first gay bookshop.

Bridges battles Māori tax exemption

Bridges battles Māori tax exemption - National Party leader Simon Bridges is attacking the possibility of exemptions for Māori in any capital gains tax regime. The Tax Working Group ...