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Indigenous anger at losing service that protected kids

The Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships has had a contract with the university to deliver the service, but this will end on ... View article...

Coles Indigenous employment target defended

"Australia is a country with many minorities and they should be celebrated." ... Ms Nicholson said Coles didn't discriminate "in favour" of Indigenous ... View article...

Linda Burney vows to meet families in bid to tackle Indigenous suicide crisis

Labor's spokeswoman for Indigenous Australians wants to learn more about the factors that may have led to some people taking their own lives in ... View article...

Action needed on indigenous deaths: Burney

The families of indigenous Australians who have taken their own lives must be included in efforts to prevent further deaths, federal Labor's first ... View article...

Mobile finance program to reunite Indigenous owners with lost super

A finance program will tour through the Northern Territory and Western Australia to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders reunite with ... View article...

Indigenous Australians and fast trains: new agency details

Ken Wyatt, the recently named minister for Indigenous Australians and the country's first Aboriginal cabinet minister, will be in charge of the executive ... View article...

Folau planned to take down anti-LGBTI post until dad intervened, report says

Folau planned to take down anti- LGBTI  post until dad intervened, report says -  Israel Folau had planned to take down his anti- LGBTI  social media post and reach a peace deal with Rugby Australia until his dad dissuaded him from ...

Inside the fight for LGBTQ+ rights around the world

Inside the fight for LGBTQ+ rights around the world -  On 28 June 1969, rioting broke out on the streets of Manhattan after police raided yet another  gay  bar, the Stonewall Inn. Considered a watershed ...

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...