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Pauline Hanson ends climb after finding rock a hard place

The leader of Australia's far right became marooned on the nation's ... 800 ft rock Uluru in an effort to force Aboriginal tribes to suspend their ban. View article...

Aboriginal elders humiliated by crowd of warring Labor members who walked out of WA state ...

Aboriginal elders humiliated by crowd of warring Labor members who ... to award-winning journalism from Western Australia's biggest newsroom. View article...

Racism at the heart of the Adelaide social scene

... the appointment of the Aboriginal pastor Sir Douglas Nicholls as governor. ... An ABC poll in 1976 revealed that 70 per cent of South Australians ... View article...

How this 19th century bishop's legacy reverberates in Australian Catholicism today

Bishop Polding was Australia's first Catholic bishop. ... Ms Hendriks has spent her career in Aboriginal education at the Australian Catholic University ... View article...

Ancient Greeks, Aboriginal Australians and astronomy – Why do different cultures see such similar ...

Almost every person throughout the existence of humankind has looked up at the night sky and seen more than just a random scattering of light. View article...

Protestors defend 800 year old Aboriginal birthing tree from highway development. “The ...

 'Protestors defend 800 year old Aboriginal birthing tree from highway development. “The tree has been ... “Of course it is Australia. They'd nuke ... View article...

How a Bengali Book in Broken Hill Sheds New Light on Australian History

One of the most surprising discoveries was that the richest accounts of South Asians were in some of the Aboriginal languages spoken in Australian ... View article...

It took 65000 years but this Bangarra show was worth the wait

Three works explore the culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... where he watched the largest ever gathering of Aboriginal tribes in Australia. View article...

Pita Paraone tremendous servant of his community

Mr Paraone worked for the Department of Māori Affairs, Te Puni Kōkiri and the Māori Trust Office before entering parliament on the New Zealand First ... View article...

National Suicide Rate a National Disgrace

The New Zealand Maori Council has been provided with the soon to be released coronial data on suicide in New Zealand. The fact is the suicide rate ... View article...

Pita Paraone tremendous servant of his community

Mr Paraone worked for the Department of Māori Affairs, Te Puni Kōkiri and the Māori Trust Office before entering parliament on the New Zealand First ... View article...

Māori elderly and disabled 'forgotten' New Zealanders

"They're often the forgotten people, particularly those Māori who are living with either a physical or intellectual disability of some kind," he said. View article...

Māori comedian Kura Forrester's plan to become 'mega-rich and mega-famous'

Kura Forrester is fast becoming one of the standouts of New Zealand comedy. This year she was the first Māori to win the prestigious Billy T James ... 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...

Smoking cigarettes worse than smoking marijuana, say teens

For example, New Zealand has had an anti-smoking law since 1990, which has ... See all the survey questions in English and te reo Māori here. ends. View article...

Māori inquiry into Oranga Tamariki one step closer today

The terms of reference for the Māori inquiry will be presented tomorrow, .... The Government's new $54 million programme to tackle New Zealand's ... View article...

The plan to reduce Māori in prison from 52 percent to 16

Hōkai Rangi is a five-year strategy which aims to drastically cut the number of Māori in prison from 52 percent down to 16 - to match the overall Māori ... View article...

The Government has unveiled a bold new plan it hopes will break the cycle of Maori reoffending rates

Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis says the over-representation of Maori in prison has become a fact of life, that's having a devastating impact on ... View article...

Strategy launched to break the cycle of Māori reoffending

Authentic co-design with Māori, incorporating a Te Ao Māori worldview, and greater connectedness with whānau are key elements of Hōkai Rangi, ... View article...

The last words of the serial killer who was executed for murdering six gay men

Bowles, 57, was put to death at a prison in Florida on Thursday, August 22, 23 years after he was sentenced to death over the murders of six gay men. View article...

Gay workers not covered by civil rights law, Trump admin tells Supreme Court

The Bostock and Zarda cases are two of three cases concerning LGBTQ workers' rights that the Supreme Court is expected to hear this fall. View article...

Maltese Minister for European Affairs and Equality Helena Dalli

Since 2013, Malta has dramatically transformed its image with regards to implementation of LGBTI rights. Civil Union and Cohabitation bills, as well as ... View article...

Out Proud African LGBTI Zine Launch and Open Mic

Join Out Proud African LGBTI as they launch their first zine publication of poetry, prose, stories and art works made during the Gasworks Participatory ... View article...

Cameroon: Death of LGBTI activist Lambert Lamba

With the death of activist Marc Lambert Lamba, Cameroon lost a pioneer in the fight against anti-LGBTI violence. View article...

Equal Love will protest against religious discrimination laws

The legislation has been shown to religious and family groups but LGBTI organisations have not been consulted, many fear the legislation will see ... View article...

Inside UNDP's work on a global LGBTI inclusion index

The United Nations Development Programme is set to pilot an implementation LGBTI Inclusion Index, first-ever global index launched ... View article...

LGBTI Health Alliance voices support for more census data

The LGBTI Health Alliance has voiced its support for more census data to be collected about Australian people's gender identity and sexuality. View article...

New agreement planned on closing the gap

Ms Turner said peak indigenous groups looked forward to engaging with communities around Australia to build support from Aboriginal and Torres ... View article...

20 Ultimate Things To Do in Sydney

It may not be Australia's capital, but multicultural Sydney is top of most Down .... Redfern gave birth to Australia's first Aboriginal-run health, legal, and ... View article...

NT murderer of his own children released

The murders occurred at the Molgawo Aboriginal Outstation in remote Arnhem Land on September 25, 1988. Rostron used a rifle and a shotgun to kill ... View article...

The power and hypocrisy of George Pell's supporters

Jonathan Pearlman Australia commits troops to Strait of Hormuz. ... “You can't have a non-Aboriginal organisation with just some Aboriginal actors and ... View article...

Djirra commends decriminalisation of public drunkenness

This is systemic racism and a contributing factor to Aboriginal women being the fastest growing prison population in Australia”. “Abolishing the offence ... View article...

Four key planning tips to make your festival a success in 2020

This annual Festival, which falls on Australia Day, is the only Aboriginal cultural festival of its kind in regional NSW and showcases local culture, skills, ... View article...

A 42000-Year-Old Man Finally Goes Home

There, a crowd of several hundred people, including Australian government officials, archaeologists and representatives of Aboriginal groups from ... View article...

SA Child Protection Dept to boost Indigenous staff

A report published by Guardian for Children and Young People Penny Wright in May showed the number of Aboriginal children in South Australia who ... View article...

Juneau library intern's event celebrates People of Color

Smyth, who is from New Zealand, led students and the crowd through songs that incorporated Maori culture. The Maori are indigenous to New ... View article...

Nanaia Mahuta calls on Māori group claiming Aboriginal area in Sydney to 'respect the people of ...

A legal battle in Sydney, Australia, is under way as Ngāti Rangihou Kanguru hapū claims valuable land was given to them by Aboriginal people 200 ... View article...

Largest iwi health provider to slash jobs after losing major partnerships

In April, Hauraki PHO's board of trustees said it was "reviewing its 15 year kaupapa Māori Treaty-based partnership between Hauraki iwi and general ... View article...

Serious digital privacy breach at Ministry for Culture and Heritage

"Tuia 250 is an opportunity to hold some honest conversations about Māori and European settlement of New Zealand to guide us as we go forward ... View article...

Landmark Report Released into Maori Aging and Disabilities

The New Zealand Maori Council has released a comprehensive policy statement challenging the Government and policy makers to do more when it ... View article...

Where to stay on New Zealand's South Island

In May, we spent an incredible week road tripping around the “Land of the Long White Cloud”, New Zealand, or Aotearoa, as it is called in Maori. View article...

Australia can learn from NZ on Indigenous recognition, says Maori development minister

New Zealand's Māori development minister Nanaia Mahuta visited Australia this week and said the two countries can exchange knowledge ... View article...

Kura Pounamu exhibition opens at Nelson Provincial Museum

He said New Zealand's interest in the Māori culture had grown over the past decade, seeing more New Zealanders becoming comfortable displaying ... View article...

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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...