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Australian Diver Matthew Mitcham Is Engaged

Australian  Diver Matthew Mitcham Is Engaged -  Australian  diver Matthew Mitcham announced over the weekend that he's engaged. “He got down on both knees, I said yes, and now we're engaged,” ...

Straight to the top – the faces behind Australia's uprising of LGBT wrestlers

Straight to the top – the faces behind  Australia's  uprising of  LGBT  wrestlers -  Michael Di Iorio talks with Nikki Van Blair, Jason Dewhurst and Silvio Milano, the faces behind  Australia's uprising of  LGBT  wrestlers. Usually when ...

Delivering Homes and Kāinga For All New Zealanders

    "Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua's researchers have discovered that if home ownership continues to decline at the rate it has been falling since 1991, Māori ... View article...

New judge's goal: Fewer Māori through courts and in prison

Judge King says many people will need to work for change if her goal of fewer Māori going through the justice system is to be realised.  View article...

Australia printed the world's first Scriptures – in Maori and Tahitian

Australia made a unique contribution to international religious printing with the first Christian Scriptures printed here, which were in Tahitian and Maori ... View article...

Strong week for Aotearoa Māori netballers at international schoolgirls' challenge

The Aotearoa Māori secondary schools netball team has dominated the international secondary schoolgirls' challenge in Palmerston North ... View article...

Sydney Kershaw awarded QSM for service to Māori performing arts

Mr Kershaw was a tutor with the Patea Māori Club when Poi E was ... groups around New Zealand with the aim of keeping Māori traditions alive. View article...

Top Māori chefs to showcase quality cuisine in Youthline fundraiser

A feast laid on by some of the country's top Māori chefs will feed the body, ... NZ's best chefs and restaurants revealed at Cuisine Good Food Awards View article...

Adopting an Indigenous totem could be a simple way to care for country

    Stephen Hopper, a biodiversity professor and author at the University of Western Australia, has spent years learning from Aboriginal elders and ... View article...

Indigenous sisters who are doing it for themselves

They're ringing bells to champion female Indigenous role models on ... non-Indigenous people have to treat the problems of Indigenous Australia as if ... View article...

The Indigenous voices we don't hear have something important to say

Aboriginal people can laugh; there are few things more joyous for me than ... Even that title, Minister for Indigenous Australians seems faintly absurd ... View article...

Renal services boost sees Indigenous patients stay closer to family, but more dialysis needed

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are almost four times more ... from chronic kidney disease, according to Kidney Health Australia (KHA). View article...

Indigenous player boycotting the national anthem isn't a first as players get Hollywood support

The Indigenous Vs Maori All Stars game divided the nation over the ... "It just brings back so many memories of what's happened (in Australia's past). View article...

PM Scott Morrison should resist the temptation to make a grand gesture on indigenous politics

Contrast this to the spirit of the 1967 referendum, which saw Australians ... The annual furore of activists who each year push to reschedule Australia ... View article...

FW: Silva service: Indigenous sisters who are doing it for themselves

Silva service: Indigenous sisters who are doing it for themselves ... believes non-Indigenous people have to treat the problems of Indigenous Australia ... View article...

Truth-telling essential to reconciliation: central Victorian Aboriginal leaders reflect

Meaningful reconciliation cannot occur without truth-telling about the dispossession of Australia's traditional owners upon colonisation and the ... View article...

Bold ideas to transform New Zealand

Shay Wright runs a Māori social enterprise that provides education and training for Māori community leaders to help them rebuild their own economies ... View article...

Warriors' spiritual leader says Maori culture is important to the club

But Rarere-Wilton's role at the Warriors ensures the New Zealand club ... Rarere-Wilton, 47, trains in mau taiaha and Maori weaponry in Auckland. View article...

New Zealand unveils new 'wellbeing budget' with focus on mental health over economic growth

New Zealand has unveiled its new financial budget which places a heavy emphasis on the "wellbeing" of citizens, over economic growth or other ... View article...

Nuggets from New Zealand

Aotearoa (Maori for New Zealand) may not have the Eiffel Tower or Disneyland but it gives you a chance to view life in its purest form — to slow down ... View article...