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Trump dodges and gives an accidentally revealing answer when confronted on his anti-LGBT ...

your administration has been taking steps to make it easier to discriminate against LGBT people in the workforce. Are you ... View article...

UK's First Permanent LGBT Rainbow Crossings Are Unveiled In South London

The permanent rainbow crossings have been installed to “show solidarity with the LGBT+ community”. Lambeth Council have unveiled the UK's first ... View article...

Migrants in Ciudad Juárez face violence, months-long wait to enter US

She had been living at Casa Respetttrans, a shelter for LGBTI migrants in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, run by Respetttrans Chihuahua, a local trans ... View article...

States must do more to stop hate crimes and promote interfaith initiatives, say UN rights experts

Victims have included religious minorities, individuals who are not religious, LGBTI persons, children and women who face many forms of ... View article...

Iceland LGBTI group criticizes Pence ahead of visit to country

The president of an LGBTI advocacy group in Iceland has criticized her country's government's decision to host Vice President Pence next month. View article...

Teachers' unions on front line of equality fight

That is why the resolution passed by the Education International World Congress sought to "include LGBTI equality in all campaigns for the right to ... View article...

Kununurra's LGBTI community 'humbled' by support for drag queen show

Outrageous frocks, saucy dancing and an errant 'bits' bag highlighted one of the biggest nights at the Ord River Sports Club in recent memory last ... View article...

Hate speech cannot be disentangled from its violent consequences

In contrast, the many LGBTI people who are most affected by it will largely remain voiceless in court proceedings. For this reason, the submissions of ... View article...

Gumbaynggirr woman honoured as top Indigenous legal representative in Australia

Merinda Dutton has always had a passion for justice. The story of her father - a stolen generation survivor - stirred in her a need to help set things right ... View article...

Karla Grant builds a home for Indigenous documentaries

A new series showcasing the best of Australia's Indigenous documentary makers has hit the small screen this week on SBS's NITV. Karla Grant ... View article...

Isabel Lucas: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Isabel Lucas, a 34-year-old Australian actress and environmentalist, is said to be ... Australian Aboriginal peoples are one of the two distinct groups of ... View article...

An innovative new production of Fiddler on the Roof is coming to Melbourne

Opera Australia has a long history of bringing classic musicals to local ... about a young Aboriginal boy in 1960s Western Australia is returning for its ... View article...

Koskela celebrates 10 years of social impact with First Nations artists

... Australia's First Nation Peoples. Koskela will present Ngalya, a new collection of lighting designs made in partnership with six Aboriginal and Torres ... View article...

Indeginous Languages of Australia

It is believed that at the time of the European settlement in 1788 there were upto 700 traditional languages spoken by the Aboriginal people across the ... View article...

One Nation's Pauline Hanson 'granted permission' to scale Uluru before ban

Aboriginal Elders have granted permission for One Nation Senator Pauline ... Touching down in central Australia on Tuesday afternoon, Ms Hanson ... View article...

Ningali Lawford-Wolf, Aboriginal actress whose role in the film 'Rabbit-Proof Fence' reflected her ...

The film was controversial in Australia with its depiction of the government's ... She trained as a dancer in Sydney with the Aboriginal Islander Dance ... View article...

Rangihoua school teaches teens in Kiwa app

In fact, Māori were active partners in the establishment of the first school, and the Pākehā teacher needed to learn many new things, including te reo ... View article...

Tobacco researchers look for community action

Māori tobacco control advocates hope a new research programme will give Māori communities the tools they need to become smokefree. Whakaha o ... View article...

Māori tribe's legal battle for valuable land in Sydney, Australia

A legal battle in Sydney, Australia is under way with a Māori tribe claiming ... Currently in New Zealand, Māori protesters have been trying to stop ... View article...

Maori group claims valuable piece of land in Sydney because 'their ancestors were gifted it 200 ..

A group of Maori people are calling for valuable land in Sydney's west to be ... Clan back in 1811 after they were first invited over from New Zealand. View article...

Waiata Māori Music Awards Announces Iconic Awards Recipients

Lifetime Contribution to Māori Music Award recipient Pixie Williams sang 'Blue Smoke', the first local song ever recorded in New Zealand. View article...

NZ makes parliament more parent-friendly

Tania Te Whenua, a Maori lawyer who is working on a case for New ... alleging discrimination against indigenous Maori women employees, said she ... View article...

Māori group battles it out for ownership of Parramatta

A Māori group says they have a claim to a major piece of land in Paramatta and have taken their fight to the Federal Court. They claim that 112 acres ... View article...

Maori group claims ownership of Sydney suburb, demands Australia pays compensation

A Maori group have sparked a legal battle with Parramatta City Council over a plot of land in Sydney's west, after claiming the area was gifted to them ... View article...

Kids told they will be “cast into a lake of fire” by homophobe at drag queen story time

In his column for the Ottawa Citizen, Watson explained: “My reluctance has not allowed me to live my life as full of love and adventure as my gay ... View article...

Advancing the next generation of women researchers

... spoke powerfully on our responsibility to grasp the opportunities of the changing global order to transform the identity of women and LGBTI people, ... View article...

Anti-transgender activist slams library book describing sex act by six-year-old

... who would seek to indoctrinate them with programs designed to promote the LGBTI agenda”, hit out at the book for “explicit language, violent acts, ... View article...

Sydney Swans urged to end association with Qatar Airways

The official LGBTI supporter group of the Sydney Swans wants the club to part ways with airline sponsor Qatar Airways because of that country's ... View article...

Cuban officials 'humiliate' LGBT activist and block him from travelling to US

Leandro Rodríguez García, director of the Cuban Foundation for LGBTI Rights and a 'vocal critic' of the Cuban government, was due to fly to Miami ... View article...

Anti-transgender activist slams library book describing sex act by six-year-old

... which says its goal is to “protect our children from those who would seek to indoctrinate them with programs designed to promote the LGBTI agenda” ... View article...

Poll shows Australians don't support religious bodies right to discriminate

While the government has discussed the proposed legislation with religious and family groups, they have not consulted with LGBTI groups who may ... View article...

China rules out allowing same-sex marriage

There are no laws against same-sex relations in China and despite growing awareness of LGBTI issues, the community has been the target of censors ... View article...

Inside Darwin's From Country to Couture runway show 2019

The showcase served to promote the visibility of Indigenous Australian artists, and models from varying cultures, a broad range of ages, and a wide ... View article...

Suicide hits the poor and disadvantaged

Australia's new suicide prevention advisor says culturally specific support ... semblance of parity between non-Indigenous and First Nations suicide ... View article...

Army helps to 'close the gap' in East Pilbara

The remote East Pilbara community of Jigalong, Western Australia, has come together for the Army Aboriginal Community Assistance Programme ... View article...

Batemans Bay Aboriginal boy scouted for Australian film – Smoke Between Trees

It can be a long arduous journey before an actor will get their first lead role in a feature film but for Batemans Bay born Robert-Joseph Slockee, fate ... View article...

Why Nicole Scherzinger's Golden Buzzer Act Had Her Sobbing On 'Australia's Got Talent'

The judge further explains why she chose to hit the Golden Buzzer in an Instagram video: “I was just blown away that he took his Aboriginal roots and ... View article...

Aboriginal Australian collection highlighted

Aboriginal Australian books and materials at Sutherland Shire Libraries will now be highlighted and easy to find with the launch of an exciting new ... View article...

Aboriginal scientific insights to be part of SA curriculum

Local science teachers will work with Aboriginal communities and a host of partners – State Department of Education, the South Australian Museum, ... View article...

What is the yellow symbol the Australian players have on their shirt collars in this Ashes series?

According to Cricket Australia, the shirt symbol is a commitment as a team to reconciliation and finding common ground with Aboriginal and Torres ... View article...

Health researcher says banning smoking in cars discriminatory to Maori

"Secondhand smoke has been a campaign for sometime around New Zealand. Are you saying secondhand smoke has no impact at all, that all the ... View article...

Ngawha Prison inmates denied water, forced to relieve selves in exercise yard, Ngāpuhi elder ...

He was one of the kaumātua who were promised by the government in 2004 that the new prison near Kaikohe would help Māori inmates turn their ... View article...

Waikato student off to NASA after winning intern scholarship

... also really excited to be one of the first Māori people going to NASA and bringing that back to my Māori students." ... The Government-funded New Zealand Space Scholarship covers the costs of the internship, including airfares to ... View article...

DHB worries census data will reduce funding to deprived area

"So factors such as the proportion of Māori and Pacific people within our ... Kathryn Cook, said Statistics New Zealand had bolstered the census data ... View article...

Māori King challenges his people to take care of their children, not blame Government if they're ...

The Māori King has challenged his people to protect their children and not blame the Government if they intervene to provide a safe haven. View article...

Gulf Frontier Days Festival providing music, dance and medicine for heart and soul

They include indigenous Canadians, the Cree people, and New Zealand's Maori contingency. Together, they stood as one and delivered what is ... View article...

Ōtorohanga receives tohutō after unanimous council vote

Every name has a story: Why do so many Pākehā pronounce Māori place names ... "It takes a while to teach old dogs new tricks, but with this move by the ... and it's really significant, especially for the kiwiana capital of New Zealand. View article...

Māori King Tūheitia addresses Oranga Tamariki, Ihumātao in speech

Māori King Tūheitia addresses Oranga Tamariki, Ihumātao in speech .... Housing New Zealand on building a new facility on Te Wherowhero land at ... View article...

Russia's LGBT people will never stop fighting

When Putin launched his relatively unpopular third presidential campaign in 2012 against a background of mass protests, the demonisation of LGBTI ... View article...

LGBTI people have the highest rate of... - National LGBTI Health Alliance

"LGBTI people have the highest rate of suicidality - which includes suicidal thoughts, plans and attempts - among any population in Australia, but the ... View article...

Christian Porter brings draft religious freedom plans to cabinet

LGBTI advocates have been urging the community to make their views known to the Federal Government about proposed religious discrimination and ... View article...

Our LGBTI Employees tell their stories | Deloitte Australia

“I didn't come out when I was 17, I started coming out…” Deloitte Digital Manager Graham Price shares a personal story to nearly 6,000 people around ... View article...

Police Chief acknowledges 20 year relationship with LGBTI community

Chief Commissioner of Police Graham Ashton today acknowledged the 20 year anniversary of the Victoria Police LGBTI portfolio reference group. View article...

Palestinian Police Ban LGBT Group From Holding Events in West Bank

Palestinian authorities have banned an LGBTI advocacy group from holding events in the West Bank. AlQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in ... View article...

Cuba prevents LGBTI activist from traveling to US

The Cuban government last week prevented an LGBTI activist from traveling to the U.S.. Leandro Rodríguez García, director of the Cuban Foundation ... View article...

EOIs sought for LGBTI aged care Royal Commmission Advisory Group

The National LGBTI Health Alliance are seeking expressions of interest from LGBTI elders and representatives to join an advisory group to inform a ... View article...

Linda Burney's message to Scott Morrison on indigenous voice

It comes after Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt last week explicitly rejected putting an indigenous voice in the Constitution, which is a key ... View article...

The suburban Adelaide address that could be the nation's most important cultural site

“What you have in this room is, in effect, the essence, the distillation, the summation of Aboriginal Australian culture,” Oldman says, motioning towards ... View article...

Spectacular aboriginal paintings from Australia burst with deep, sacred beauty

As with Navajo blankets, Japanese Zen ensō paintings, Gee's Bend quilts and much more, the similarity between Australian aboriginal painting and ... View article...

Ken Wyatt told to recognise this: we want a voice

Mr Wyatt created high hopes in July when he announced that Australians would go to a referendum on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people ... View article...

Politicians told to 'get on with it' during Q&A debate on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people

Politicians have been urged to “get on with it” when it comes to the recognition of Aboriginal people in the Australian Constitution, although not ... View article...

"I Don't Know That People Are Ready For This": Stan Grant Talks "The Australian Dream"

"I think there is a dissonance between the Australia that most people live in, and the Australia that Aboriginal people live in," Grant explains to Student ... View article...

Bundy initiative to train teachers a first for Australia

Aboriginal Corporation is involved in an educational program that is considered "the first of its kind” across Australia. The corporation's ... View article...

Spurs' Patty Mills launches water project benefiting remote Australian Aboriginal communities

The Spurs' Patty Mills officially launched the community project he has been working on to help alleviate water disparities in his native Australia. View article...

'Merata: How Mum Decolonised the World' is a tribute to Maori screen excellence

Mita wasn't the first female director to come out of New Zealand, nor is she the most famous, but in her short yet prolific career as a director of both ... View article...

Starlight navigators embark on waka voyage from Tahiti to NZ, honouring ancestors

Starlight navigators embark on waka voyage from Tahiti to NZ, honouring ... He became the first New Zealand Māori to be appointed a Polynesian ... View article...

Northland's Ngawha prison taken to task by chief ombudsman over conditions

The Northland Regional Corrections Facility opened to much fanfare in 2005, with a stated aim of operating on tikanga Māori values, and turning ... View article...

'We will be there': Jacinda Ardern speaks out on Ihumātao

But to allow the space of others to find by Māori for Māori. I will be there for those hard conversations. I am there. But I'll also recognise when the seat ... View article...

'You hide away': PM Jacinda Ardern challenged during visit to Māori King

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been accused of hiding away on Māori issues during a visit to King Tūheitia, while her Māori caucus admits it'll face ... View article...

Student designs Manawatū Māori rugby history with new jersey

The Manawatū Māori rugby team kicked off their first game of the season ... "I spent some time at the [New Zealand] Rugby Museum at Te Manawa ... View article...

Stuff pulls pin, ending big media companies' joint ad-buying business

So as we were going through and presenting about the New Zealand ... the government to merge elements of TVNZ, Radio New Zealand and Maori ... View article...

Ombudsman: Northland's Ngawha Prison conditions breach Convention against Torture

"This is pretty uncivilised in modern New Zealand," he told Checkpoint. ... And although 47 per cent of the prison's population was Māori, cultural ... View article...

Community Health Organization Launches Model for At-Risk Youth

Health workers will mentor young members of the LGBT community, who are often regarded as high-risk because of their greater likelihood to ... View article...

These 2 maps show where America's LGBT families are thriving

LGBT families are an essential part of communities across America. In our recent collection of 50 maps tracking American life today, we included two ... View article...

Conservatives Mobilize After French Gov't Proposes State-Funded IVF for Same-Sex Couples

LGBT groups are welcoming the proposed legal changes. ... LGBT activists and some doctors label that requirement discriminatory, and worry that it ... View article...

Murder of trans woman sparks fears of rising anti-LGBT+ violence in Ecuador

“Once again, the LGBT community in Ecuador is in mourning,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “We thought (the attacks) were going to ... View article...

LGBT+ murders at 'alarming' levels in Latin America

“At the bottom of these violent deaths of LGBT people is exclusion, and sometimes total exclusion,” said Marcela Sanchez, head of Colombia Diversa, ... View article...

Survey shows decrease in anti-LGBTI+ attitudes in Nigeria

A new survey conducted by Vivid Rain in conjunction with The Initiative for Equal Rights has shown a gradual increase in acceptance of LGBTIQ+ ... View article...

Victorian Police's Chief Commissioner apologises to LGBTIQ+ community

McGowan said successive governments had worked to remove discrimination from the lives of LGBTI Western Australians, highlighting the ... View article...

UN expert on extrajudicial executions to visit Nigeria

“I will also investigate violations of the right to life of women, minorities, indigenous people, members of the LGBTI community, internally displaced ... View article...

Indigenous-run quarry to supply Rio Tinto mine build

Western Australia's first Indigenous-owned and operated quarry will be established to supply railway ballast for a $3.5 billion Rio Tinto mine in the ... View article...

Indigenous jobs growing, but more to be done

Creating sustainable employment opportunities for indigenous Australians continues to challenge business leaders, but there is growing commitment ... View article...

Aboriginal academic ignites conference with challenge to medical education

Aboriginal academic ignites conference with challenge to medical ... In Australia when we talk about Aboriginal health, what we really mean is fitting ... View article...

Sky Stories 2019 at Sancrox Park was a huge success

"Through my research I worked with 25 different Indigenous nations ... "Songlines are more prevalent in Central Australia where Aboriginal culture is ... View article...

'Feel-good' SMH goes missing Chris Mitchell

Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson speaks about the three streams of modern Australia: indigenous Australians, the British settler legacy with its ... View article...

2019 Pat Dixon Scholarship Recipient Announced

A scholarship established to honour the first Aboriginal woman elected to local government in Australia has been granted to a promising young trainee ... View article...

Copyright Agency awards more than half a million in grants

Cutter and Coota will explore the story of country, taking in early colonial Australian history as well as enduring convict and Aboriginal narratives. View article...

Meet the pioneers of Australian aerospace engineering past, present and future

In the early days of flight, Australia's aviators were engineers experimenting .... A Gangalu woman, Griffin is the first Aboriginal person in Australia to ... View article...

Māori leadership of prison reform strategy essential

A justice reform advocate says Corrections needs to get out of the way and let Māori drive the co-design of a new strategy to reduce the proportion of ... View article...

'Humanising' prisoners: Strategy launched by Corrections to reduce Māori reoffending

Corrections is hiring a Māori deputy chief executive as part of the ... to break the cycle of Māori reoffending and imprisonment in New Zealand. View article...

The Spiritual Relationship between Māori Communities and the Whanganui River

New Zealand's Whanganui River is the lifeblood of the Māori. The tribes of Whanganui take their name, their spirit, and their strength from this great ... View article...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won't visit Ihumātao ahead of march

But she may be meeting with some of those involved in the ongoing dispute, and discussing it with the Māori King on Tuesday. Ardern has repeatedly ... View article...

Kelvin Davis: 'A lot of work' to reduce Maori population in prisons

Corrections minister Kelvin Davis joins Heather Du Plessis-Allan to talk about the Government's goal to reduce the Maori population in prisons. View article...

Newest Wellington library space named, set to open 'later this year'

The new library's collection would focus on genres such as Māori and Māori local history, NZ fiction, biography, books in te reo Māori, art and ... View article...

Obesity epidemic hits low income earners

It could be repeated 1000 times anywhere in New Zealand. ... to research their land title and find out how their property was alienated from Maori. View article...

Hope Māori-focused Corrections plan will deliver for families

Prisoner rights advocate Awatea Mita has done time at a minimum-security prison in New Zealand and knows the toll it can take on a family. View article...

Two conversion therapy survivors want protections for LGBTQ youth

For Thomas Argue, growing up in Victoria County in the 1990s was idyllic in some ways, humiliating and painful in others. Argue, who is gay, was ... View article...

Dark aged care: LGBTI elders retreat to the closet

Older LGBTI men and women are harbouring such great concern over entering aged care they are considering an “exit” plan as a last resort, while ... View article...