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“The Politician” Is Here, It's Queer — But Now We're Totally Used To It

As a creator, Murphy has always included LGBTQ characters and odes to queer culture in his shows. But in The Politician, these distinctive traits of his ... View article...

Trainings of LGBTI Trainers in Southeast Asia on United Nations Mechanisms

ILGA ASIA is looking for LGBTI activists to join the training of trainers on UN human rights mechanisms. The training will take place from 2-6 December ... View article...

Extinction Rebellion: how to craft a protest brand

... last year the Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum installed “We're not going to the mainland” to mark three decades of campaigning for LGBTI rights, ... View article...

Foreign Consular Corps Joined Parade to Support LGBTi Cause in Rio as Group

This year's LGBTi+ Pride Parade in Rio also celebrated the 40th anniversary of the LGBT movement in Brazil and the 50th anniversary of the ... View article...

Protection of 'traditional marriage' should not be an excuse for discrimination

This was hailed as a huge step forward for LGBTI rights in Hong Kong, but the case of MK may now test how progressive the Court of Final Appeal's ... View article...

Sexual orientation and gender identity won't count in 2021 census

With LGBTI Australians having high rates of suicide and mental illness—especially trans young people at high risk for poor mental health, self-harming ... View article...

Risk of isolation and neglect in aged care

The National LGBTI Health Alliance's Samantha Edmonds said some aged care ... systems and service delivery being culturally safe for LGBTI people. View article...

Pride Week kicks off in Prishtina

In the lead up to the third Prishtina Pride Parade, which will take place on Thursday morning in Prishtina's city center, LGBTI rights activists have ... View article...

Australian radio stations support new World/Pop sound

Migrants earn a place in Australia's diverse music landscape ... Australia's rich and deep music history from Indigenous folklores, rhythms, and chants ... View article...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Lowy Institute speech was powerful, unifying and politically potent

Former head of sustainability at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence Carla McGrath is described as a “proud indigenous Australian woman of ... View article...

'Cultural practice': Wombat killing defence

Confronting footage of an off-duty South Australian police officer stoning a ... He has previously been praised for his work helping non-indigenous ... View article...

Black is the new white for Australian social satire

Aboriginal activist and Labor Party politician Ray Gibson (Tony Briggs) ... He still likes to think of himself as an Australian Martin Luther King, even ... View article...

Yumi Stynes reignites Australia Day feud with Kerri-Anne Kennerley

Yumi Stynes reignites Australia Day feud with Kerri-Anne Kennerley .... Aboriginal elder women are desperate for help, and they're not getting it. View article...

New research turns Tasmanian Aboriginal history on its head. The results will help care for the land

New research turns Tasmanian Aboriginal history on its head. The results will help care for ... The same can be said of the first Europeans in Australia. View article...

Sutherland Shire Family Services commits to Aboriginal support through reconciliation action

The family service has employed Aboriginal family support workers for ... "Working with Reconciliation Australia gave us a formal structure to embed ... View article...

Manchester Museum becomes first in country to hand sacred objects back to aboriginal ...

Craig Ritchie, from the Australia Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), welcomed the decision as significant not only for ... View article...

French Polynesia's leader in NZ for 'Tuia 250'

Edouard Fritch was invited to New Zealand in recognition of mediator role between Māori communities and the Endeavour crew during James Cook's ... View article...

Captain Cook, hero or villain?

In the year 2019, some 250 years after he first made contact with Māori at the start of a six-month circumnavigation of New Zealand, it has become ... View article...

Internal dispute within Taranaki iwi to be heard in Māori Land Court

Internal dispute within Taranaki iwi to be heard in Māori Land Court ... reject or seek to change a compensation deal on offer from New Zealand ... View article...

Bowel screening programme catches Māori short

A south Auckland general practitioner says the national bowel cancer screening programme now being rolled out will fail Māori. The programme will a ... View article...

Gang member's bid to stop property sale fails

... replicated across New Zealand. He drew parallels between Moeke's case and the confiscation of Māori land by the Crown, in particular Ihumātao. View article...

Mothers Matter backs 3-day postnatal stay petition

Currently maternal suicide rates in New Zealand are seven times higher per capita than in the United Kingdom, with Maori overrepresented. View article...

'I just wanted to do it'

“In the wider context of our overall Maori engagement, where my High ... a partnership with Air New Zealand and with three universities for PHD Maori ... View article...

Witi's Wahine a homecoming

It is a love letter to the many Maori matriarchs who fulfil their roles in a ... She has brought forth from Witi's work the inherently Maori style of oral ... View article...

LGBTI youth who are victims of abuse will be entitled to Guaranteed Income for Citizens benefits

Catalan Ministry of Social Affairs to change welfare regulation to include LGBTI 18 to 23-year-olds among recipients. View article...

Film on LGBT Ugandans' problems getting health care

It is also being screened throughout Uganda to coincide with 10 years of advocacy for the right to health by the LGBTI and sex workers advocacy ... View article...

Bicommunal LGBTI shows political leaders the way

Cyprus, where men, women, gender neutral and trans people fight for their right to love themselves and love another; and are segregated by the... View article...

Questions about sexual orientation and gender identity dumped from census

The LGBTI Health Network had lobbied for inclusion of sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex status to help address the significant health ... View article...

LGBTI Refugees: Erasure, Silencing and Heteronormativity

The aim of this panel to discuss the issues of sexuality and gender identity claims for protection, compare situations for LGBTIQA+ people seeking ... View article...

Hobart LGBTI Elders Dance Club

LGBTI+ Elders Dance Club is being presented in Tasmania for the very first time thanks to Moonah Arts Centre. A fabulous free monthly social event ... View article...

One size doesn't fit all, inquiry to hear

The National LGBTI Health Alliance says sexual discrimination is alive and well in the aged care sector and that must change. "We know many ... View article...

Sexuality and gender identity info to be taken out of next census

Labor's Shadow Assistant Treasurer said the LGBTI communities had been ignored in health planning for too long and called on the government to ... View article...

Sutherland Shire Family Services commits to Aboriginal support through reconciliation action

The family support organisation has received official endorsement from Reconciliation Australia on its Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), which was ... View article...

Pat Dodson's warning on legalised euthanasia

The father of Aboriginal reconciliation, Pat Dodson, fears that legalised ... Liberal-governed South Australia is also eyeing reform, two decades after ... View article...

Aboriginal people do not need a new avenue to death

Western Australia is considering a piece of legislation that may be the most ... to exclusive commonwealth government control of Aboriginal affairs. View article...

Lecture dissects Australian national identity

An introductory presentation into the history of Australian national identity was ... Australia sent 400,000 soldiers to fight for the British Empire in WWI, and ... to grapple with the issues of colonial displacement of aboriginal peoples, ... View article...

New Research Turns Tasmanian Aboriginal History On Its Head

This eye for the open parts of the Australian landscapes likely contributed to a view that Aboriginal people, too, almost exclusively preferred open ... View article...

SA Government considers law change after wombat stoning

... in response to a shocking video of an off-duty SA Police officer stoning a wombat on a remote South Australian road. ... Aboriginal elder Major 'Moogy' Sumner says the stoning of a wombat by an off-duty SA police officer showed ... View article...

Australian Aboriginal bark art exhibition opens in Taipei

Over 100 pieces of Australian Aboriginal artwork painted on tree bark were shown at the opening of an exhibition in Taipei on Friday, to promote ... View article...

Tourists are standing in mile-long queues to climb Uluru in Australia weeks before it shuts down to ...

The famous Uluru rock in Australia will soon close to visitors out of respect for the country's Aboriginal culture. Tourists are now flocking to the famous ... View article...

The researchers out to reduce heart health inequities for Māori and Pacific people

Reducing inequities in heart health for Māori and Pacific people is a key ... the University of Auckland's new Centre for Heart Research, which will be ... to address equity and improve heart health for all in Aotearoa-New Zealand.”. View article...

How should New Zealand remember Captain Cook's legacy?

It resulted in the death of several Māori and would change the Māori world forever. Two-hundred-and-fifty years on New Zealand is commemorating ... View article...

Dementia from a Māori worldview

Understanding 'dementia' from a Māori perspective, recently published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, is the first study of its ... View article...

Prime minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand must face its past after Britain made 'statement of ...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today called for New Zealand to be more ... Britain delivered a 'statement of regret' to indigenous Maori this week for the ... View article...

New history truck brings learning to life for New Zealanders

New Zealand history is officially on the move. ... 250 commemorations, marking the first encounter between Captain Cook and Māori 250 years ago. View article...

A hard place to be happy: Children locked away in residential care facilities tell their stories

... and protection residences, home to children New Zealand has deemed too .... Māori girl. "Before I was in here, I wasn't violent. From coming in here, ... View article...

The truth about Captain Cook and Maori: it's not what Michael King told you

However, as IAN WISHART writes in his New Zealand history bestseller The Great Divide, Maori tribes had been slaughtering each other and ... View article...

New Zealand marks Capt. Cook's 1769 arrival as prime minister urges 'more open' talk on history

Britain delivered a “statement of regret” to indigenous Maori earlier this ... New Zealand should continue to learn and tell the full story of its past, she ... View article...

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This university is tackling LGBT students' isolation in a groundbreaking new way

The University of the West of England (UWE) is introducing a LGBT+ buddy accommodation scheme to “beat the sense of isolation” some LGBT+ ... View article...

High stakes for LGBT Americans at Supreme Court next week

The U.S. Supreme Court is set Tuesday to hear a trio of cases that will determine not just whether firing workers for being LGBT is legal under federal ... View article...

Some YouTube creators are accusing the service's 'bigoted bots' for demonetizing content with ...

... and monetization practices that stigmatize, restrict, block, demonetize, and financially harm the LGBT Plaintiffs and the greater LGBT Community.”. View article...

House resolution condemns Ben Carson as transphobic

Among anti-LGBT policies enumerated in the House resolution is HUD's removal of guidance to homeless shelters on implementing its LGBT ... View article...

Council of Europe 'concerned' over Georgia's queer rights record

there still persist a number of serious, systemic shortcomings in law and practice concerning discrimination and hate crime, notably against LGBTI ... View article...

Most Slovaks oppose registered partnerships

As he continued, the Focus poll suggests that respondents consider the expansion of rights of LGBTI community in Slovakia to be second-tier, while ... View article...

'Nepal Police Cyber Bureau ready to address crime against sexual and gender minority'

Bureau Chief Bikash Shrestha and member of former Constituent Assembly and LGBTI rights activist Sunil Babu Pant were present on the occasion. View article...

Say Thank You to the UN for Standing Up for LGBTI People Everywhere

The LGBTI community faces increasing challenges around the world. Often the people who perpetuate discrimination and violence toward this ... View article...

What are the lyrics to the Australian national anthem, 'Advance Australia Fair'?

McCormick's 1878 lyrics have been widely criticised for failing to represent Australia's indigenous population, and for celebrating British colonisation. View article...

Search for identity shows the need for Indigenous recognition

During a recent road trip around Scotland I observed from afar as Australia debated constitutional recognition for its first people, while in Edinburgh I ... View article...

"I am proud rugby is at the forefront": Toomua on the significance of the Wallabies' indigenous jersey

Toomua's reflections on the third wearing of the Wallabies' indigenous ... Anglo and Indigenous heritages, and of an Australian society increasingly ... View article...

Advocates say WA is ripe for impact investing

Impact investing is yet to gain traction in Western Australia, but a new ... entire south-west, providing opportunities for Aboriginal impact investment. View article...

Western Australia rolls out lifesaving hotline to address Indigenous deaths in custody

State adopts royal commission recommendation requiring police who detain an Indigenous person to call the Aboriginal Legal Service. View article...

WA introduces Custody Notification Service for Indigenous people

The CNS central number will divert to the phone of a rostered Western Australia Aboriginal Legal Service solicitor, who will then undertake a welfare ... View article...

Hotline to save Indigenous lives in police custody

As of Wednesday, police are required to call the 24/7 hotline staffed by the Aboriginal Legal Service Western Australia (ALSWA) whenever an ... View article...

A new age of appreciation for First Nations visual arts

These Art Centres play a critical role in developing Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... The National Museum of Australia is to host and acquire the entire ... View article...

Botched census puts back Māori population count

Statistics New Zealand is delaying its estimate of Māori population because of the botched census. Just 68 percent of Māori completed their census ... View article...

MPI boosts Māori farm advisory plan

Launching the $12 million Māori Agribusiness Extension Programme or ... such programmes have long been a part of agriculture in New Zealand. View article...

Planning an ocean observation network

New Zealand's changing ocean environment has prompted the call to ... “The integration of Mātauranga Māori, New Zealand's science, technologies ... View article...

Become bi-culturally confident at work

One of the biggest barriers to non-Māori using te reo in the workplace is a ... It is important to have bi-cultural practices in New Zealand workplaces ... View article...

Captain Cook's legacy is complex, but whether white Australia likes it or not he is emblematic of ...

The British government has issued an oh-so-carefully worded expression of “regret” for the killing of Māori in Aotearoa, today's New Zealand, at the ... View article...

Heritage status granted to southern whare in Invercargill

Under the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act, Wāhi Tūpuna identifies places important to Māori for their ancestral and cultural significance. View article...

Britain voices 'remorse' for killing Maori 250 years in the past

British Excessive Commissioner Laura Clarke meets Maori leaders as New Zealand marks 1769 arrival of Captain James Cook dinner. View article...

Government Support for Euthanasia Bill Contradictory

Maori has increased to 169 this year up from 142 in the previous year and ... The taxpayers of New Zealand have got a right to ask why are we being ... View article...

Say Thank You to the UN for Standing Up for LGBTI People Everywhere

The LGBTI community faces increasing challenges around the world. Often the people who perpetuate discrimination and violence toward this ... View article...

New Speakers Added To Outstanding LGBTI+ Melbourne Forum In It Together

An array of new speakers have been named for this month's In It Together Forum which is now only ten days away. Leading the new announcements ... View article...

Estonians have become more tolerant of sexual minorities

The results were published in Eurobarometer's discrimination 2019 survey on The Social Acceptance of LGBTI people in the EU. While there has been ... View article...

Joint Statement on Moscow Mechanism report at HDIM 2019

... allegedly committed during January 2017 to November 2018 against LGBTI persons, human rights defenders, members of the independent media, ... View article...

Polish woman risks prison over 'LGBTI poster'

Polish woman risks prison over 'LGBTI poster' · Amnesty.org.uk 74d 1 tweets. She could be given two years inside. Peter Tatchell 74d ago. A Polish ... View article...

UN Refugee Chief praises Mexico's support for refugees

“The stories are terrible—of violence, extortion, gender-based violence, and violence against the LGBTI community,” Grandi said during a press ... View article...

Polish Police Protect Pride March Amid Anti-LGBT Crackdown

... their right to peaceful assembly, even if they are promoting unpopular positions (e.g., rights for LGBTI persons or those of a minority religion).”. View article...

Ghanaians fight 'satanic' sexuality education programme

... introduced into the curriculum will empower children to know about their sexuality and reproductive health issues, and has nothing to do with LGBTI. View article...

Western Australia rolls out lifesaving hotline to address Indigenous deaths in custody

State adopts royal commission recommendation requiring police who detain an Indigenous person to call the Aboriginal Legal Service. View article...

Kids charged over alleged crime spree

North Australia Aboriginal Justice Agency chief executive and youth justice advocate Priscilla Atkins said the government needed to stay the course ... View article...

Paul Hogan and the myth of the white Aussie bloke

Australia was desperate for heroes, and the image of a strong, white, and healthy ... Simultaneously, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people fought (and ... As Australian life moved further away from idealised bloke, this man was ... View article...

Custody Notification Service now operational in Western Australia

A Custody Notification Service (CNS) which provides fundamental legal advice and a welfare check to all Aboriginal people taken into police custody ... View article...

Aged care stakeholders tell inquiry how to improve services

The Australian Association of Gerontology's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ageing Advisory Group and the Healing Foundation, a national ... View article...

8 ways to explore Uluru without climbing it

In fact, there are over a hundred experiences involving Australia's Red ... You'll also get to visit sacred Aboriginal sites, see Aboriginal rock art and get ... View article...

The Best Things to Do in Adelaide in October

Australia's largest celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, an underground music festival championing femme and non-binary artists, ... View article...

Aboriginal Entrepreneur Hub established to support indigenous startups

Aboriginal Entrepreneur Hub established to support indigenous startups ... in some of the regional parts of South Australia to Aboriginal Australians. View article...

Three-day Māori-led stroke conference begins for Waiariki whānau in Rotorua

Three-day Māori-led stroke conference begins for Waiariki whānau in ... This week is the Stroke Foundation of New Zealand's awareness week. View article...

Expected updates to Māori population statistics

Māori ethnic population estimates will next be updated when the 2018-base estimated resident population is published on 30 March 2020, Stats NZ ... View article...

Subnational estimates; Māori population

Stats NZ's existing Māori population estimates are produced using data from the 2013 Census, and changes to the population since then, including ... View article...

Hāpai te Hauora secures major research grant

The Health Research Council has awarded Hāpai te Hauora a Ngā Kanohi Kitea Full Project Grant to explore whānau Māori experiences with an ... View article...

Scotland v Samoa: Why Kiwi wing Sean Maitland thought he'd blown a bonus point try

"I slid in for the second try and thought I'd dived too early to be honest," the former Crusaders and New Zealand Māori wing told reporters in Kobe. View article...

Britain expresses 'regret' for killing Maori 250 years ago

The British government is expressing “regret” that British explorers killed some of the first indigenous Maori they met ... View article...

Major investment in Maori agribusiness

"Extension programmes have long been a part of agriculture in New Zealand. It's a farmer-led, farmer-focused approach to working together to face ... View article...

Measles outbreak: Auckland hospitalisation rates quadrupled

... as are Māori (1.3 per 1,000 population) compared to NZ European/Other (0.3 ... Hospitalisation rate for Maori was 41 percent, and for Pacific was 37, ... View article...

Great British Bake Off star inundated with 'immense' love and positivity after receiving homophobic ...

Bansal appeared on the hit show in 2016, and came out publicly as gay last month. He is a proud Sikh and the anonymous letter writer claimed that ... View article...

Polish police stop protesters who disrupt gay pride parade

The event reflects the gay rights movement in Poland which has grown more vocal and met a backlash from social conservatives in the mostly Roman ... View article...