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Here's the bones of your ancestors': Aboriginal

Aboriginal remains identified through separate coronial inquests have been delivered, without notice, in brown paper bags to the Tasmanian ... View article...

Aboriginal children 'must be heard' on adoptions: paper

Vulnerable Indigenous children fighting to be heard in adoption proceedings should be appointed their own legal representation to ensure their ... View article...

How one of the oldest Aboriginal community centres is “crumbling”

A vital centre for Aboriginal health, housing and education is falling apart in Melbourne's south-east despite pleas for state and federal funds. View article...

Aboriginal elders question future of Tarrkarri as SA government holds back review findings

Aboriginal elders say they've been kept in the dark about stalled plans to build a First Nations cultural centre in Adelaide's CBD, describing the ... View article...

Members Bill Will Prevent Māori Land Confiscations

Green Party MP Hūhana Lyndon says her Public Works (Prohibition of Compulsory Acquisition of Māori Land) Amendment Bill is an opportunity to right ... View article...

The lack of ambition in new education policy

Will there be measures for children to excel? Who does the minister consider will inevitably fail? Who are the 1 in 5? Are they poor, Māori and ... View article...

Members Bill will prevent Māori land confiscations

“Not one more acre of whenua Māori should be taken by the Crown, and I am calling on all political parties to support my bill to protect Maori land ... View article...

Te Pāti Māori co-leaders back MP's claim Govt is intent on exterminating Māori

Te Pāti Māori's co-leaders are endorsing an allegation made by one of its MPs that the Government is on a “mission to exterminate Māori ”. View article...

UN alarmed at number of Indigenous kids in care system

Too many Aboriginal kids are coming into contact with the criminal justice system and being removed from their families in Western Australia, ... View article...

Community Art To Hang With Nation's Best

Aunty Yvonne Kent was a Kamilaroi Elder with many accomplishments including helping to establish the Tamworth Regional Council Aboriginal Liaison ... View article...

Prisoners need equal access to healthcare

Many of the recommendations made by the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody aimed to improve healthcare in prisons; most have ... View article...

Beloved Dandenong and District Aborigines Co-Operative 'falling apart'

... growing Indigenous populations in the country. But in Dandenong, in Melbourne's south-east, a vital centre for Aboriginal health is falling apart. View article...

Māori commedian lays out the hundies

Comedian Jamaine Ross says he tries to keep his act from being too scripted. The former Billy T Award nominee brings his latest show Hundies to ... View article...

Around the motu: Kelly Makiha in Rotorua

The search for a bone marrow donor for a gravely ill Rotorua boy and how the Maori and Pasifika population may be able to help. View article...

Diabetes New Zealand Research Foundation Recipient Announced

Elizabeth Lewis-Hills' research aims to reduce the intergenerational effects of diabetes for Māori whānau in Aotearoa and improve hauora Māori ( Māori  ... View article...

Māori is my superpower': Kiwi photographer highlights Tegan's journey with her Māori identity

Our very own Tegan Yorwarth has teamed up with photographer Manihera Te Hei to be a part of his beautiful portrait series highlighting young Māori  ... View article...

Preschooling campaign seeks equality

It also means cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, ... View article...

Colonisation Is The Forgotten Culprit In Gendered Violence

Violence against women is not an issue particular to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, but it is particularly impacting our ... View article...

BRAMS Elder Program giving back to local Indigenous Population

Sitting with Aboriginal elder Martina Badal, one can't help but be entranced by her infectious positivity and vibrant energy. View article...

Malarndirri McCarthy says Aboriginal-controlled health organisations crucial to Closing the Gap

Speaking to the WA Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector in Fremantle on Wednesday, the Yanyuwa senator said the government was committed to ... View article...