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Stink as: another video game appropriating Māori taonga

Another day, another flagrant rip-off of Māori taonga and intellectual ... with the Māori New Zealand Arts & Crafts Institute, a legal entity enshrined in ... View article...

Older LGBTI people fear having to return to the closet

Older LGBTI people fear having to return to the closet - Filmmaker Glenda Rome helmed the production. The documentary talks to several LGBTI people in Scotland aged 50+ about their fears as they age.

How I started living for myself and not just for weekends on the gay scene

How I started living for myself and not just for weekends on the gay scene - What came out of it was the older LGBTI people in Brighton came to us and said it was amazing. These were people that weren't going out but they still ...

Changing face of sport cannot ignore women

How could it be anything but tokenism - how could a Maori female possibly be the right ... In response, New Zealand Cricket is transforming - and fast. ... Sport New Zealand recently set a target for all sports organisations to have a ... View article...

Moderate, extreme feed off each other

Muslims, Maori, and people of colour in New Zealand have described how their concerns regarding racist and Islamophobic violence in New Zealand ... View article...

Heartwarming moment McDonald's worker speaks to a young Maori family in their own language

A New Zealand mother has taken to social media to praise a young ... worker after he took her family's order in their native language, te reo Maori. View article...

NZ Maori Council takes on Don Brash and Hobsons Pledge

The New Zealand Maori Council has today asked the New Zealand Human Rights Commission to investigate the organisation known as "Hobsons ... View article...

More Māori in jobs and nefs off couch

Māori unemployment dropped one percentage point in the first quarter to 8.6 ... Statistics New Zealand says wages grew 3.4 per cent over the year to ... View article...

Maori Television chairman Jamie Tuuta named chair of Tourism New Zealand

Jamie Tuuta as has been appointed chairman of the New Zealand Tourism ... He is currently the chairman of Māori Television, the Taranaki Mounga ... View article...

Education key to health

Education key to health - The indigenous are now dying in their 40s and 50s of chronic health ... which brought volunteers together from across Australia "to help facilitate, ...

Family of Aboriginal woman who died in custody want coroner to consider 'systemic racism'

Family of Aboriginal woman who died in custody want coroner to consider 'systemic racism' - If application accepted, Tanya Day's case will be first time in Australia that systemic racism has been considered as a contributing factor to a death in ...

Why the leaders of the future should look to philanthropy

Why the leaders of the future should look to philanthropy - The scholarship winners take part in a Company Directors Course for Indigenous Business Leaders led by the Australian Institute of Company ...

Australia must 'radically rethink' its prisons to avoid becoming like America, US activist says

Australia must 'radically rethink' its prisons to avoid becoming like America, US activist says - In Australia , that "other" is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who make up just 2 per cent of the broader Australian population but more than ...

5 Of The Most Incredible Indigenous Experiences You Can Have in Queensland This Year

5 Of The Most Incredible Indigenous Experiences You Can Have in Queensland This Year - With a 50,000-year history, the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are some of the oldest continuing cultures in the world.

Deep Time Dreaming captures imaginations and literary award

Deep Time Dreaming captures imaginations and literary award - Until the mid 20th century, it was widely believed Indigenous Australians had arrived only a few thousands of years before and their societies were ...

Dem presidential hopefuls decline invite to anti-LGBTI Christian group summit

Dem presidential hopefuls decline invite to anti- LGBTI Christian group summit - Buttigieg has spoken out against religious conservatives who are opposed to LGBTI rights in the past. He has been hugely critical of heavily religious ...

LGBTI advocates urge Labor to commit to ending discrimination in schools

LGBTI advocates urge Labor to commit to ending discrimination in schools - Australian LGBTI advocacy group just.equal have written to Opposition Attorney General Mark Dreyfus, asking him to detail Labor's policy on ...

Malaysian LGBTI rights activist accuses police of intimidation

Malaysian LGBTI rights activist accuses police of intimidation - A prominent Malaysian LGBTI rights activist has accused the authorities of intimidation following a statement he gave to the United Nations (UN).

There seems to be a misunderstanding." How Australia found, and then lost, our first gay cricketer.

There seems to be a misunderstanding." How Australia found, and then lost, our first gay cricketer. - If you Google the term ' gay cricketer' it will take less a fraction of a second for you to be delivered the result: James Faulkner. There's just one ...

Govt pledges $16M for census improvements and catch-up

The government is committing an extra $10.36 million to fund Statistics New Zealand's preparations for the 2023 national census after lower than ... View article...