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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...

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...

The New Zealanders adding a spark to Harry Potter

Now, two Kiwis, both theatre veterans, are part of the wizarding world – and the franchise has its first Māori Dumbledore. Gareth Reeves and George ... View article...

Proud Maori soldiers who joined the army to fight for New Zealand at a time they were considered ...

Incredible photos have captured the extraordinary moment Maori soldiers performed a haka in North Africa during World War II. The images show ... View article...

South Taranaki woman's lifetime of service to family and Māori community recognised

Mahuri Tipene lives by the Māori proverb He aha te mea nui o te ao? ... children and grandchildren have represented their region and New Zealand. View article...

Parihaka to celebrate Māori New Year

The Parihaka Puanga Kai Rau Festival will take place at Taranaki's iconic home of peace this weekend to celebrate the Māori New Year. View article...

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

... about the dispossession of Australia's traditional owners upon colonisation and the ongoing impacts of this, central Victorian Aboriginal leaders say. View article...

Queensland Labor's Close The Gap efforts have come under fire

Pearson is one of Queensland's outstanding Aboriginal leaders and he .... There are many youth detention centres in Australia where all the inmates ... View article...

Payday lender accused of exploiting Aboriginal communities

Payday lender accused of exploiting Aboriginal communities ... Local authorities in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands of Western Australia say hundreds of ... View article...

Aboriginal suicide rate deepens as average of three people take their lives a week

Aboriginal suicide rate deepens as average of three people take their lives a ... An average of three Indigenous Australians have taken their own lives ... View article...

Proud Maori soldiers who joined the army to fight for New Zealand at a time they were considered ...

The photo illustrates a time when Maori soldiers had only recently been taken on to the New Zealand army as part of the Second New Zealand ... View article...

'System change is what's needed' - Labour MP Peeni Henare on mental health funding for Māori

Critics are questioning whether the Government's Budget announcement will do enough to create change for Māori mental health, with suicide rates ... View article...

When Maori soldiers performed the haka for Greece's King George

Incredible images show Maori soldiers performing the haka during a ... New Zealand army as part of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. View article...

Glow show celebrating Matariki and Māori myth and legend coming to Whanganui

Rich in te reo Māori, it is promoted as an upbeat show that has the ... to ensure the show could be taken to other regions of New Zealand," Burren said. View article...

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These are the most popular tattoo trends of 2019

Tā moko is the permanent marking of the face and body as traditionally practiced by Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. Many artists across ... View article...

Your national anthem sucks, get over it

Aboriginal people not standing for the anthem or not singing the anthem has since become a story that ... "If they don't like Australia they should leave! View article...

'Australia needs to appoint a minister for suicide prevention'

For Indigenous Australians like Ms Cox and CJ, and those in Western Australia, the rates are especially high. As of 14 May, 62 Aboriginal people in ... View article...

Trailer for Adam Goodes documentary The Australian Dream released

Written by Walkley award-winning journalist Stan Grant, The Australian .... He was Adam Goodes the angry aboriginal," Grant is heard saying during ... View article...

'Too important to fail': Ken Wyatt warns against rush on Indigenous recognition

Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt has warned of a setback to reconciliation that could last decades if the nation rushes towards a referendum ... View article...

2nd wave of survey for EU LGBTI and non-binary/gender non-conforming people launches

2nd wave of survey for EU  LGBTI  and non-binary/gender non-conforming people launches -  The second wave of a survey from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) for  LGBTI  and non-binary and gender nonconforming ...

The cruise ship of the future is here and it's LGBTI friendly

The cruise ship of the future is here and it's  LGBTI  friendly -  Meanwhile, the Celebrity fleet has long been a welcoming environment for  LGBTI  travellers. If you are a first-timer, make sure you check out the ...

There's a groundswell of support for a referendum on an Aboriginal voice to Parliament: Teela Reid

So, two years after about 300 Aboriginal leaders delivered the idea to the Australian people in the form of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, are ... View article...

News from around the Web Six unmissable LGBTI movies to catch at Fragments Festival

News from around the Web Six unmissable  LGBTI  movies to catch at Fragments Festival -  In this first edition of Fragments Festival, almost 80% of filmmakers identify as women, people of colour, disabled and/or  LGBTI , limiting straight white ...

How to come out to your wife as a bisexual man

How to come out to your wife as a bisexual man -  Be more involved in local  LGBTI  work? It's important you take the lead on this. You've had more time to think about the issue and way up the best and ...

NZNO says nursing must be central to Gov plans

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says it's heartened by the ... Ms Nuku said NGOs and kaupapa Māori services form a key part of the ... View article...

New Zealand's 1st 'well-being budget' targets mental health

New Zealand's government says it will spend billions of dollars more on mental health services and combatting ... View article...

The Māori economy shows the path to prosperity

Wide-ranging social improvement programmes, new co-working spaces ... New Zealand Land Wars, Māori have always been incredibly innovative. View article...

Budget provides Māori and Pacific peoples more scope to lift wellbeing

When Māori and Pacific's peoples set their own wellbeing goals and ... The language also makes a key contribution to New Zealand tourism and ... View article...

Local Focus: Could this be Gisborne's first Māori mayor?

The race is on in Gisborne to replace outgoing mayor Meng Foon. And because the two frontrunners are women, it's likely that Gisborne will get its first ... View article...

$593m funds to support Māori and Pasifika

$593m funds to support Māori and Pasifika ... to see as I say whether or not it actually changes the lives for Māori in New Zealand.". View article...

he fascinating case of Hannah Tamaki vs the Māori Women's Welfare League

Tamaki has, of course, been in the news recently as leader of the new Coalition New Zealand party. We could look back on the saga of her bid for the ... View article...

Govt funds extra staff for Maori land issues

Minister of Maori Development Nanaia Mahuta announced the new ... District Council, New Zealand Transport Agency, the Maori Land Court and Te ... View article...

Sexual health organisations team up to tackle rise in Māori HIV cases – TVNZ

New diagnosis of HIV in New Zealand is declining, but the numbers are increasing for gay Māori men.... Read more via "sexual health" – Google News ... View article...

Robots a winner for Māori company

Māori-owned agritech start-up Robotics Plus won the Most Innovative Hi-Tech Agritech Solution at this year's New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards as well as ... View article...

Miss World NZ contestants encourage more Māori to participate

Miss World NZ was held in Auckland and three of the finalists were Māori. The women say representing wāhine Māori on stage was a major ... View article...

David Campbell, 45, reveals his difficult school years as a self-confessed 'geek'... admitting that he ...

David Campbell, 45, reveals his difficult school years as a self-confessed 'geek'... admitting that he ... -  He went on to applaud the importance of diversity, saying all were welcome including  LGBTI  people, hedge fund managers and people of faith.

LGBTI Muslims to lead Birmingham Pride for the first time ever

LGBTI  Muslims to lead Birmingham Pride for the first time ever -  Birmingham Pride announced earlier this month that Moffat would lead the parade on 25 May. Moffat created the  LGBTI  inclusive relationships schools ...

Groundbreaking report released on Singapore's LBTQ communities

Groundbreaking report released on Singapore's LBTQ communities -  In the past,  LGBTI  activism in Singapore has often been dominated by gay men and the high-profile law criminalizing male homosexual sex, Section ...

30 years of Stonewall: The fight for LGBT rights

30 years of Stonewall: The fight for LGBT rights -  2018 Scottish school curriculum to include  LGBTI  education. 2019 The debate continues into the proposals to reform the gender recognition act, with ...

Taiwan hosts its first ever mass same-sex wedding banquet

Taiwan hosts its first ever mass same-sex wedding banquet -  Taiwan is widely considered to be the most  LGBTI -friendly country in Asia. A record 137,000 people attend Taiwan LGBT Pride in October last year.

Liberals' low-key LGBTI promises could prove challenging for Morrison

Liberals' low-key  LGBTI  promises could prove challenging for Morrison -  Prime Minister Scott Morrison will come under pressure to keep a suite of promises the Liberal Party quietly made to the gay lobby before last week's ...

Tunisia Under Fire for Continued Homophobic and Transphobic Abuse

Tunisia Under Fire for Continued Homophobic and Transphobic Abuse -  The North African country of Tunisia has been accused of continuing to subject its  LGBTI  population to abuse, arrests, and torture, despite promising to ...

Radio host shuts down homophobic caller in the most satisfying way

Radio host shuts down homophobic caller in the most satisfying way -  According to the avid listener, teaching kids about  LGBTI  issues in schools is like teaching them it's OK to beat your wife. But as soon as Nawaz heard ...

Family Matters National Week of Action this week to protect First Nations children

... mainstream Australia was shocked to learn that Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... said the ultimate responsibility rests with the Australian Government. View article...

Finally, relief for survivors of sexual violence - but caution remains

That's a big bump from the $46m given sector-wide in 2016, which had to be spread between children, adults, male survivors, pilots for Kaupapa Māori ... View article...

Labor's Warren Snowdon close to winning Lingiari

One of Australia's longest-serving MPs, the 69-year-old former Rudd .... Ms Price, who has been controversial in her views on Aboriginal Australia's ... View article...

Aboriginal artwork at Joondalup hospital represents newborn

Mrs Darling, who is also a midwife and lactation consultant, said she was inspired when working in the central desert of Australia and the many times ... View article...

'First dictionary' is next step to teaching Barngarla language to Aboriginal community

Reclaiming a lost Indigenous language is no mean feat. ... native to Aboriginal people across South Australia's eastern Eyre Peninsula, is about to be ... View article...

Estonia ranks 21st on Rainbow Europe map

Estonia ranks 21st on Rainbow Europe map -  The result is an increasingly unsafe and unsustainable environment for  LGBTI  organisations and human rights defenders in a growing number of ...

Poland sends EU reform letter in heated pre-election climate

Poland sends EU reform letter in heated pre-election climate -  PiS also defended "traditional" values in recent attacks on an activist who had painted the pro- LGBTI rainbow flag round the head of a Polish catholic ...

Israel Folaus case is simple, once you look past the distractions

Israel Folaus case is simple, once you look past the distractions -  Folau, in explicit terms, posted on Instagram that  homosexuality  (a state of ... Rugby  Australia  is a public-facing institution; its players are, as they.

Partnerships to Promote Equality for LGBTI People

Partnerships to Promote Equality for  LGBTI  People -  During the dialogue, the Dominican Government presented its efforts in reducing discrimination against  LGBTI  persons in response to HIV through the ...

Oldest painting of Aotearoa in Te Papa's collection to go on display

Mātauranga Māori curator Dougal Austin's iwi lived in the area and he said he felt a sense of connection with the painting of the area when he saw it ... View article...

Mountains, sea, even gun violence featured in New Zealand quilts at Ailsa Craig annual show

Mountains, sea, even gun violence featured in New Zealand quilts at Ailsa Craig ... It was created by New Zealander Mary Jane Sneyd — long before two ... Zealanders include modern waggas (recycled materials), traditional Maori ... View article...

Where IT's at: Making Hamilton the Silicon Valley of New Zealand

Where IT's at: Making Hamilton the Silicon Valley of New Zealand ... Highlights of the Techweek 2019 Waikato programme include the Māori tech ... View article...

The Haka, New Zealand's fearsome dance of war

The Haka, the Maori war dance, is synonymous with the culture of New Zealand. It is generally the first thing that comes to mind when people think of ... View article...

The taken babies and the Peak standoff: Why it's a 'cultural calamity' for Māori

 A few weeks into another term for Ngati Kahungunu and things have been rocking, rolling, helter skelter. Seven members of one Hawke's ... View article...

Karpik hopes to continue journey of discovery with the Māori ABs

Chiefs flanker Mitchell Karpik, who made his Māori All Black debut last year on the tour of the Americas, is hoping to earn selection again for the two ... View article...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

All of us can play a part in making sure that every Australian – Indigenous and non-Indigenous – has the opportunities and choices they need to lead ... View article...

Estonia ranks 21st on Rainbow Europe map

Estonia ranks 21st on Rainbow Europe map -  The result is an increasingly unsafe and unsustainable environment for  LGBTI  organisations and human rights defenders in a growing number of ...

Land and lore are inextricably linked in the Australian Outback, where imagination keeps blurring ...

As per the aboriginal belief system, this was the period of creation, when Australia's rugged interior took shape. Among these spirits were the Rainbow ... View article...

Labor's Hold in Australia's Northern Territory Weakens as Votes Swing Right

Price, who has been rocking the status quo with in her views on Aboriginal Australia's issues with domestic violence and child protection, says she ... View article...

Skinnyfish Music celebrates 20 years of powerful Indigenous voices

Skinnyfish Music celebrates 20 years of powerful Indigenous voices ... A name loved across Australia and around the world is that of Dr Gurrumul ... View article...

Trailblazer Wally 'The Black Flash' McArthur was denied stardom because he was Indigenous

Wally McArthur blazed a trail for others to follow. He should have been one of the biggest names in Australian sporting history. The reason he wasn't is ... View article...