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The western world is just catching up to what we know

The western world is just catching up to what we know -  The study proved that humans were occupying arid  Australia  49,000 years ...  Indigenous heritage is not  Australian  heritage nor is it world heritage.

Australian Bishops call for politics that promote peace, common good

Australian  Bishops call for politics that promote peace, common good -  Australia's  Catholic bishops have called for respect and understanding in the ... outcomes between  Indigenous  and non- Indigenous Australians .

Bipartisan commitment to housing funding needed to secure future of remote communities

Bipartisan commitment to housing funding needed to secure future of remote communities -  While the Northern Territory and South  Australia  have both signed ... been involved in funding remote  Indigenous  housing since at least 1968, and as ...

Small Screen Highlights: Will Australia ever have a black Prime Minister?

Small Screen Highlights: Will  Australia  ever have a black Prime Minister? -  Mark Coles Smith is the charismatic presenter of this 55-minute ABC documentary, that asks what chance an  Indigenous Australian  born today has of ...

Independents pledge to block Adani mine in event of minority government

Independents pledge to block Adani mine in event of minority government -  Phelps, who is running in the Sydney seat of Wentworth, told Guardian  Australia  that, regardless of who won the next election, the next parliament had ...

Hope for a healthier Australia

The package also includes targeted activities addressing stroke and preventable disease risk in regional Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... View article...

Dustin Lance Black reflects on fatherhood in heartfelt video

Dustin Lance Black reflects on fatherhood in heartfelt video -  The video was made in collaboration with  LGBTI  rights group the Human Right Campaign to raise awareness and help generate support for ...

LGBTI Equality Act approved by the House Judiciary Committee

LGBTI  Equality Act approved by the House Judiciary Committee -  The Equality Act, a wide-ranging bill banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, has been approved by the House ...

Binary Australia attack ad slamming Labor and Drag Queen Story Time banned

Binary Australia attack ad slamming Labor and Drag Queen Story Time banned -  “Binary will protect our children from those who would seek to indoctrinate them with programs designed to promote the  LGBTI  agenda while bullying ...

Bizarre billboard costing $75000 that claims Bill Shorten supports 'drag queen story time' is banned

Bizarre billboard costing $75000 that claims Bill Shorten supports 'drag queen story time' is banned -  . celebrates diversity and I know that children and families will really enjoy this family friendly celebration of  LGBTI  culture,' Pratt said in November.

Mainfreight delivers ANZAC memorial carving

Transport and logistics company, Mainfreight, has delivered a 40' open top container to Belgium, containing a gift from the New Zealand Māori Arts ... View article...

Te Ara Wai Museum to commemorate NZ Land Wars

The Waipa District Council are rallying behind Waikato iwi aiming to build a museum to commemorate the New Zealand Land Wars. The museum will ... View article...

Here's New Zealand's most epic drive

Even after 15 years of living here, a New Zealand road trip is my favourite ... Two Maori ceremonial canoes are lit up at sunrise in the Bay of Islands. View article...

New Zealand: Guide to Bay of Islands

Brush up on your history of early New Zealand at the Russell Museum, home to a unique collection of traditional Maori artefacts, as well as a scale ... View article...

H1Z1 Removes Maui Skins Following Concerns About Appropriating Maori Culture

Following concerns raised by New Zealand gamers, the developers of H1Z1 have removed a Polynesian-inspired outfit from an upcoming update. View article...

First Māori judge, Joseph Williams, appointed to the Supreme Court

New Zealand has its first Māori Supreme Court judge. Justice Joseph Victor Williams replaces Sir William Young, who is chairing the Royal ... View article...

Early influenza season in Central Australia

Early influenza season in Central Australia - Influenza can cause severe illness or death, especially in people at high risk such as pregnant women, Indigenous people, the elderly, individuals with ...

It's time to properly acknowledge - and celebrate - Indigenous composers

It's time to properly acknowledge - and celebrate - Indigenous composers - This is at odds with the fact that numerous Australian composers have referenced Indigenous music and culture in their works, many of which have ...

Racist vandalism targets Aboriginal Greens candidate's federal election poster

Racist vandalism targets Aboriginal Greens candidate's federal election poster - Mr Sumner is a respected Ngarrindjeri elder who, in 2014, was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to the Indigenous  ...

Uranium mines harm Indigenous people – so why have we approved a new one?

Uranium mines harm Indigenous people – so why have we approved a new one? - Last week the federal government approved the Yeelirrie uraniam mine in Western Australia in the face of vigorous protest from traditional owners.

Indigenous candidate's campaign posters vandalised with 'vile' slur

Indigenous candidate's campaign posters vandalised with 'vile' slur - A campaign poster for an Indigenous Greens Senate candidate in South Australia has been defaced with a racial slur. The poster of Major 'Moogy' ...

Port Botany residents in 'permanent state of anxiety'

Port Botany residents in 'permanent state of anxiety' - Cr Said said the location was one of “if not the most significant spot in Australia ”, due to its importance to indigenous Australians and the story of the ...

8 funny, uplifting LGBTI films to watch if you're feeling lonely or down

8 funny, uplifting LGBTI films to watch if you're feeling lonely or down - Never has a mainstream romcom been gayer. Directed by Greg Berlanti, the husband of gay US soccer star Robbie Rogers, LGBTI cast and crew ...

Seven murders of LGBTI + persons in Brazil in the last two weeks

Seven murders of LGBTI + persons in Brazil in the last two weeks - In the last two weeks, from April 6th until April 19th, there were at least seven LGBTI + deaths in Brazil. Among the seven deaths, six of them were trans ...

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...

ACEM launches Māori equity strategy

ACEM will launch its strategy for excellence in emergency care for Māori at this week's Winter Symposium in Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand. View article...

Kura reo pakihi Māori language course labelled a success and hopes to return annually

"I am a firm believer that for te reo Māori to survive and prosper it must ... iwi authorities, fund managers and even the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, ... View article...

Census falls short on iwi stats

Statistics New Zealand says it now has records for about 4.7 million people in the 2018 Census ... Ms MacPherson says the department is working with the Data Iwi Leaders Group, Māori interest organisations, iwi, and Māori to find ... View article...

Kuia receiving cancer treatment calls for more Māori nurses

Kuia receiving cancer treatment calls for more Māori nurses ... That's the second language in New Zealand but you can get a Chinese interpreter at the ... View article...

Korean duo embrace Māori culture through music

The pair say the music came from wanting to connect more to the Māori ... moved to New Zealand I wanted to teach her a bit of New Zealand culture ... View article...

New NT centres to help parents raise kids

New NT centres to help parents raise kids - Seven new Families as First Teachers centres will open around the NT to help Indigenous parents raise their children ...

A lot of the people I meet have never met, hung around or worked with Aboriginal people': Today's ...

A lot of the people I meet have never met, hung around or worked with Aboriginal people': Today's ... - Today show entertainment reporter, Brooke Boney, 31, has revealed there are still many Australians who have never met an Aboriginal person.

Les Murray dead: Australian poet dies aged 80

Les Murray dead: Australian poet dies aged 80 -  Recurrent themes in his work were the history and landscape of Australia , white settlers, indigenous life, family, and the rural landscape. Murray ...

Will Australia Ever Have A Black Prime Minister?

Will Australia Ever Have A Black Prime Minister? -  What chance does an Indigenous Australian born today have of one day becoming the leader of our nation? Actor and musician Mark Coles Smith ...

Deep Time Dreaming captures imaginations and literary award

Deep Time Dreaming captures imaginations and literary award - When historian Billy Griffiths set about charting the history of Aboriginal archaeology in Australia more than six years ago, he wrote out of a sense of ...

Indigenous footballers play their first official matches in Darwin

Indigenous footballers play their first official matches in Darwin - Northern Territory football fans witnessed history as Australia's Indigenous men's and women's teams played their first official matches in Darwin as ...

Call for primary classrooms to 'show and tell' diversity

Call for primary classrooms to 'show and tell' diversity - also found that in comparison with their peers, LGBTI young people reported twice the level of self-harm, three times the level of attempted suicide ...

We need to talk about the loneliness many LGBTI people experience

We need to talk about the loneliness many LGBTI people experience - It's an organization committed to helping young LGBTI people who are homeless or in a housing crisis. Through akt she learnt how important chosen ...

Madonna's next video 'tribute to Stonewall, drag queens and LGBTI rights'

Madonna's next video 'tribute to Stonewall, drag queens and LGBTI rights' - Many believe the next video off the Madame X album will be a love letter to the LGBTI community. Fans say there are three exciting reasons why ...

Nirvana's manager reveals whether Kurt Cobain had gay lovers

Nirvana's manager reveals whether Kurt Cobain had gay lovers - The frontman of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, was a LGBTI ally far before it was popular. That is one of the most significant memories of the rock legend in ...

2018 Census – real data about real people

2018 Census – real data about real people - The first release of data will include the census usually resident population counts; the number of general and Māori electorates; and the general and ...

Tobacco tax hike drives up cost of living for beneficiaries, Maori

Tobacco tax hike drives up cost of living for beneficiaries, Maori - Stats NZ figures show the cost of living for beneficiaries rose 0.6 percent in the three months through March, and rose 0.4 percent for Maori .

Māori Council ups fight for fair deal

Māori Council ups fight for fair deal - The New Zealand Māori Council has set itself an ambitious programme including action on water, housing, health, poverty, environment and justice.

Share a drink with Lisa Renard and know more about the art of embellishment of Maori people in ...Share a drink with Lisa Renard and know more about the art of embellishment of Maori people in ...

Share a drink with Lisa Renard and know more about the art of embellishment of Maori people in ... - In Maoridom, how one does not wear a cloak or a māori tattooing but one is worn by such ancestral treasure and what does that mean? Dr. Lisa ...

Census falls short on iwi stats

Census falls short on iwi stats - She says the work done to combine census data with administrative records means data on Māori ethnicity and Māori descent is likely to be more ...

Annual census could replace five-year form-filling

She outlined today how Stats NZ had plugged those gaps by fast-tracking plans to make far greater use of ... loss", but that Stats NZ was taking the failure across government agencies to collect data on individual Maori peoples' iwi ... View article...

Homophobic remarks by Brazil's president may harm tourism industry

Homophobic remarks by Brazil's president may harm tourism industry - Bolsonaro's homophobic remarks will have social and economic repercussions for Brazil," said John Tanzella, president of the International LGBTQ+ ...

Homophobia begins from a lack of education'

Homophobia begins from a lack of education' - ' Homophobia begins from a lack of education' ... On another occasion, he called up the notoriously homophobic Westboro Baptist ...

Charts demonstrate decline in world's anti-gay laws

Charts demonstrate decline in world's anti-gay laws - International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. They were published in ILGA's latest report on State-Sponsored Homophobia .

After Backlash From Parents, A Canceled School Musical Portraying Two Gay Dads Is Now Back On

After Backlash From Parents, A Canceled School Musical Portraying Two Gay Dads Is Now Back On - Parents told reporters that push-back from administrators began when the district received complaints from a homophobic parent about gay content in ...

Homophobia persists amongst older Australian Defence Force veterans, digger says

Homophobia persists amongst older Australian Defence Force veterans, digger says - Mr Drew said Defence has since made incredible strides in making LGBTIQ servicepeople feel supported at work, but he believes homophobia still ...

Idol Philippines': This cover of 'A Natural Woman' had the judges on their feet

Idol Philippines': This cover of 'A Natural Woman' had the judges on their feet - in his voice was coming from --a painful place--his frustrations over his dad's homophobia , and his anger about the men who abandoned his mother.

Academic claims on Kuwaiti television that gay men have an 'anal worm that feeds on semen'

Academic claims on Kuwaiti television that gay men have an 'anal worm that feeds on semen' - An academic in Kuwait has claimed in a television interview that gay men have a worm in their anus that 'feeds on semen' and that she has found a ...

The ultimate same-sex wedding guide for LGBT couples

The ultimate same-sex wedding guide for LGBT couples - The ultimate same-sex wedding guide for LGBT couples .... Canada and New Zealand are considered the best countries for same-sex couples to visit ...

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Recap : Māori | NZ

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Remembering the Aboriginal Anzac heroes

Remembering the Aboriginal Anzac heroes -  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have long served in the Australian Defence Forces through both world wars, however in recent years they ...

Up Your Native-Australian Cooking Game With This Very Accessible New Cookbook

Up Your Native- Australian Cooking Game With This Very Accessible New Cookbook - Two of Australia's most passionate advocates for indigenous food and culture Rebecca Sullivan and Damien Coulthard want to get more native ...

When will we recognise Australia's frontier wars as part of our war history?

When will we recognise Australia's frontier wars as part of our war history? - ANZAC Day is a solemn day for Australians . As the ... of Australia saw the deaths of tens of thousands of Aboriginal people and at least 2000 settlers.

Visiting the Anzac history of Western Australia's Albany region

Visiting the Anzac history of Western Australia's Albany region - Until I had visited Albany, 430 kilometres south of Perth in Western Australia , I had no knowledge of its ... It has a rich Aboriginal and European history.

What young Australians think about Anzac Day

What young Australians think about Anzac Day - She said she had mixed feelings about Anzac Day because Indigenous ... The 25-year-old moved to Australia from Brazil eight months ago to study ...

Telling the forgotten stories of Indigenous servicemen in the first world war

Telling the forgotten stories of Indigenous servicemen in the first world war - Despite fighting and dying for Australia , Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders still weren't considered citizens upon their return from the war. Many of ...

Countries in the Americas have obligation to expand LGBTI rights

Countries in the Americas have obligation to expand LGBTI rights - We want every country to investigate and to resolve any matter of LGBTI peoples and communities … We want every country to provide solutions for ...