Drawn straight into the heart of the matter
On the left, a noble Maori from a different age and opposite, in ubiquitous ... As stated in the programme, “Many Maori feel lost both within their own ... View article...
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'Jojo Rabbit' review: Taika Waititi's World War II tale in need of more bite
In Taika Waititi's new film, “Jojo Rabbit,” billed as an “anti-hate satire,” the Maori-Jewish New Zealand filmmaker himself plays Adolf Hitler. But that ... View article...
Land of the Long White Cloud: Pākehā New Zealanders reflect on their colonial past and future ...
So those outcomes for Māori are actually at the hand of us. ... has also raised the lack of Māori representation in local body politics in New Zealand as ... View article...
Captain Cook and my own voyage of discovery
The apology was nothing to do with the New Zealand Government. The relatives of the Māori involved approved, and many of us thought it a nice, ... View article...
Diversity the heart of the University of Auckland's future
... number of Pacific students studying for degrees anywhere in New Zealand. ... In addition, Tuākana is a University-wide Māori and Pacific student ... View article...
Paying For Our Pakeha “Guilt” and “Privilege”
Originally pitched to NZ On Air (the series' principal funder) under the ... The brute facts of New Zealand history suggest that if its blame Maori and ... View article...
Great support for country's first language
Almost 100 years ago Sir Apirana Ngata urged Maori to hold on to our culture ... New Zealand is the turangawaewae, the home of the Maori language. View article...
Wahine voice to fore in new stop smoking guidelines
Maori public health agency Hapai Te Hauora is welcoming the release of new good practice guidelines for stop smoking services,. Tobacco control ... View article...
Montreal loses bid to host World Pride, vows to apply again
Sydney, Australia will host World Pride in 2023, the International Association of LGBTI Pride Organizers announced Sunday. In a statement, Montreal ... View article...
American anti-LGBTI preacher condemns Kiwis after being denied entry to New Zealand
An American preacher known for his hateful stance against LGBTI people has been refused entry to New Zealand on character grounds. View article...
LGBTI+ businesses to know about this pride month in SA
While many might be juggling their allegiance between Ocsober and Ocsoze, this also happens to be the official pride month in South Africa. View article...
Big setback for same-sex marriage in Hong Kong
“LGBTI communities in Hong Kong … cannot acquire the same status and recognition, and access the same rights, as opposite-sex couples due to ... View article...
The Proper Way to Welcome the People Destroying the World
Australia's first mining millionaires were Melbourne-based. .... from the Mirrar Aboriginal people (the traditional custodians of Australia's northernmost ... View article...
Behind the kava craze: Fiji's world-famous plant putting people to sleep
In Australia, imports of the substance have been restricted since 2007 because the substance was being abused by indigenous communities after its ... View article...
Archaeologists look below the ocean surface in Dampier Archipelago for signs of ancient life
Archaeologists in the north-west of Western Australia are conducting a dig ... walked across, [and] lived in by Aboriginal people," Dr Benjamin said. View article...
Indigenous Australia Holds A Key To A Gentler Future
As we once again vacillate over the vexed question of Indigenous recognition, Australia's multicultural society and house-of-cards economy are ... View article...
Funding plea to prevent suicide
Senior officers from local and national Aboriginal organisations say Yamaji people from the Murchison and Gascoyne have the nation's highest ... View article...
Don't silence our Voice, minister: Uluru leaders condemn backward step
We were conscious of ensuring any proposal aligned with Australia's ... lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who want to be active, ... View article...
Creating a legacy and Aborginal-led solutions for impact
The legacy of the Aboriginal cowboys and cowgirls in remote Australia is strongly linked with the freedom of Aboriginal people and communities to find ... View article...
I'm often labelled as an 'Aboriginal writer' but I'm more than a category
In being labelled an Aboriginal writer, I feel as if I'm removed from the writing ... In an article about the Australian bird of the year 2017 poll, Karen Wyld ... View article...
Business schools urged to practice what they preach on sustainability goals
In Australia, the UniSA Business School has participated in a “Reconciliation Action Plan” designed to improve relations with Aboriginal peoples. View article...
Ngāi Tahu responds to vocational education legislation
“This has resulted in Māori being channelled towards low-skill, low-pay menial jobs that do not ultimately lead to improved whānau wellbeing. View article...
Top honour for scientist behind breakthroughs in the care of newborns
Harwood is a doctor at a busy general practice and an inspirational leader and teacher in hauora Māori, yet she has still managed to find the time to ... View article...
Armed police patrols will cause American-style shootings
The group says the plan ignores the fact that violence against police is at a historical low, and that the rates of police violence against Māori have been ... View article...
South Auckland GP recognised for contribution to Māori health
The award seeks to recognise her leadership and contribution to Māori health, and to win was a “wonderful feeling”, she says. As a young girl she was ... View article...
Māori topics lead tauira into research
The winner of a major prize for research says universities can do more to increase curricula on Māori topics of interest that Māori undergraduate and ... View article...
New statistics show Te Reo Maori protects against alcohol harm
Recently the Health Promotion Agency released a report into hazardous drinking in New Zealand. The report shows that MÄ ori who drink alcohol and ... View article...
Educators gather to grow Māori and Pasifika learner success
More than 70 delegates from across New Zealand attended the nation's first Māori and Pasifika Tertiary Learning Advisors Hui-Fono (conference) at ... View article...
Top honour for scientist behind breakthroughs in the care of newborns
She said New Zealand had a proud track record of making an important ... An Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Harding has been awarded the ... of Auckland for her outstanding leadership and contribution to Māori health. View article...
Victorian government begin consulting on 'conversion therapy' ban
“What they really are is a most personal form of torture, a cruel practice that perpetuates the idea that LGBTI people are in some way broken.”. View article...
3 new laws South Africa wants to introduce
It also seeks to align traditional courts with the Constitution on issues such as dignity, equality, sexism and LGBTI rights. The bill has faced controversy ... View article...
PFLAG targets Albanese over Religious Discrimination Bill
Explaining the move, Argent said: “LGBTI people, their friends and families are very disappointed in his silence and lack of commitment on this issue. View article...
Qld art therapy program for LGBTIQ youth wins mental health award
The PRIDE Art Therapy Program was announced as the winner in the LGBTI Award category at the awards last week, for its work in helping improve ... View article...
Hong Kong court rules against lifting ban on same-sex marriage and civil partnerships
It added: “This judgment must not be used as an excuse to further undermine the rights of LGBTI people. The Hong Kong government needs to step up ... View article...
Pastor's 'prayer cleansing' illustrates risks of 'religious freedoms'
Anti-LGBTI authors found to breach discrimination law will successfully plead innocent by way of exemption. And workplace inclusion programs would ... View article...
Why Indians are sharing their pronouns on social media
Earlier this year, India's first LGBTI job fair RISE in Bengaluru had name-badges with preferred pronouns. "Many of us assume that everyone identifies ... View article...
Some basic rights still a struggle for LGBTI in Nepal
Esan Regmi who identifies himself as an intersex person was not allowed to give his master's exams at Kailali Multiple Campus ... View article...
Can weather increase your chances of getting pneumonia?
Dr Oyelola Adegboye from James Cook University's Australian Institute of ... been little research on pneumonia attributable to weather effects in Australia. ... Similarly, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander group studied showed a ... View article...
Torres Strait kids raise awareness of healthy skin through hip hop
“A lot of health promotional material across Australia, although fabulous, is directed at Aboriginal Australia. Not really Torres Strait Island Australians.”. View article...
Craft beer meets indigenous culture
A team of Western Australian entrepreneurs is preparing to launch a new brewery designed to create employment opportunities for Aboriginal people, ... View article...
The demise of the Tasmanian Tiger may be exaggerated after reported sightings extinct marsupial
The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was once a top predator of Australia but ... Engravings and rock art by Aboriginal people describe thylacine been ... View article...
Oxfam Australia report says policy rooted in self-determination is more successful
A recent report from Oxfam Australia has called for more policy focused on ... “We want to show the extent [to which] our Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... View article...
Maralinga nuclear test site used to house thousands of people, now there's just three
Now, Oak Valley to the north is the largest Aboriginal community on the ... Mr Petersen moved to Oak Valley from South Australia's Yorke Peninsula ... View article...
Adelaide Indigenous Festival celebrates the work of more than 1000 artists
Festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art 2019 features the work of more than 1000 artists from across Australia in a range of ... View article...
Brewarrina jail is closing and the community warns it will have a devastating effect
... pathway" in traditional language, was established on a remote sheep station in 2000 as Australia's first prison exclusively for young Aboriginal men. View article...
New statistics show Te Reo Maori protects against alcohol harm
Recently the Health Promotion Agency released a report into hazardous drinking in New Zealand. The report shows that MÄ ori who drink alcohol and ... View article...
How will NZ First carve out its own path to avoid election defeat?
New Zealand First's point of difference in past campaigns has been its ... The Māori vote is high in Northland and New Zealand First and Mr Jones are ... View article...
Winston Peters and the survival conundrum: will NZ First quit the coalition?
As the New Zealand First Party gathers for its annual conference, the ... The Māori vote is high in Northland and New Zealand First and Jones are well ... View article...
New Chief District Court Judge takes oath at Whale Rider location
Judge Heemi Taumaunu becomes the head of the largest court in Australasia and the first Māori in the role. Many of the country's top judges attended ... View article...
New statistics show Te Reo Maori protects against alcohol harm
Recently the Health Promotion Agency released a report into hazardous drinking in New Zealand. The report shows that MÄ ori who drink alcohol and ... View article...
Race Relations Commissioner supports local Māori push for councillor Andrew Hollis ...
"There is a general feeling out and around New Zealand where every ... many local Māori who are dismayed Hollis was elected, despite comments he ... View article...
'Jojo Rabbit' doesn't glorify Nazis — it's a lesson in how hate is taught
The film is written and directed by Taika Waititi, a Maori Jew most ... “Traditionally in New Zealand, there's been prejudice against Maori people. View article...
National awards for Otago scholars
Water was the giver of life for Maori, but also a source of tragedy, given that Maori comprised 20% to 25% of New Zealand's drownings, despite being ... View article...
GLAAD partners with UN on Spirit Day campaign
“The U.N. Human Rights office is proud to stand up for the human rights of young LGBTI people on Spirit Day — and every day,” said Veronica Birga, ... View article...
Israel Folau rejects Tribunal's decision and takes aim at 'biased' lawyer
... co-founder and member of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, which Folau points out is an organisation that advocated for the LGBTI community. View article...
LGBTI community does not want 'war' with the Church, seeks coexistence
Accept LGBTI Cyprus is holding a workshop next month to discuss their issues vis-à-vis the Church with whom they do not want a 'war', they said. View article...
Africa's LGBTI Community Incessantly Suffers Discrimination
The LGBTI community in Africa faces regular discrimination with individuals livelihoods being affected regularly. Will they receive legal recognition? View article...
Severe specialist shortage leaves thousands of Aboriginal children at risk of hearing loss
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's (AIHW) NT hearing health ... on average it affects 12 per cent of people in Aboriginal communities. View article...
Researcher to study Canada's success in preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
“A lot more work could be done in Australia,” she said. “FASD is not specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, but the hurt and trauma ... View article...
Indigenous art gains currency at Tarnanthi festival with banknote exchange
People will be able to swap Australian dollars for Aboriginal “Blood Money” at a special currency exchange booth in the Art Gallery as part of the ... View article...
Important Aboriginal Water Reserves Legislation Passed
The legislationestablishes Aboriginal economic development as a new ... water policy reform, without anequivalent in other Australian jurisdictions. View article...
Number Of Indigenous Kids Removed From Families 'Increasing To Stolen Generation Rates'
... in child protection are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, despite Indigenous kids only making up 5.5% of the total number of kids in Australia. View article...
Melbourne's Port Phillip council to hold Australia Day 'morning of mourning'
A Melbourne council is set to mark Australia Day with a "morning of ... but to many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it represents the ... View article...
The Warburton teacher fighting to keep traditional language alive
Across WA, many people are fighting to keep Aboriginal languages alive. In Warburton — a community of about 500 people 900km north-east of ... View article...
Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peaks to hold two local Closing Gap engagements
Australian Capital Territory Aboriginaland Torres Strait Islander Elected Body Chair,Katrina Fanning said we must ensure that Aboriginal and Torres ... View article...
National sticks with Māori seat boycott
National's Māori development spokesperson has failed in her push to be allowed to stand in a Māori seat in next year's election. Ms Hayes was keen ... View article...
Protest, climate change and racism in NZ
“Climate change, the growing gap between rich and poor, anti-Māori and ... Racism remains a persistent issue in New Zealand, said Jackson. In 1988 ... View article...
A Rare Judge of New Zealand Art
Many of the works were selected as Paul travelled around New Zealand hearing ... A work by Charles Goldie, the world's pre-eminent painter of Maori, ... View article...
India-New Zealand business summit shines light on opportunities for Kiwi companies
Trade between New Zealand and India was poised for growth over the ... of Employment and Associate Minister for Māori Development Willie Jackson ... View article...
New Zealand's biggest 50 landowners revealed
At least 28 per cent of New Zealand's land is in Crown or other public ownership, while iwi and other Māori land-holding entities own about 7 per cent. View article...
Ellison brothers remain connected with Māori culture while living it up in Japan
The three brothers are proud Māori, and Leon says they do their best to teach .... This place is awesome but I will definitely head back to New Zealand. View article...
More than 500 educators graduate programme aimed at strengthening te reo in classrooms
More than 500 teachers and support staff have graduated from Te Ahu o te Reo Māori as the Government attempts to integrate Te Reo Māori into ... View article...
New Zealand impact investments set to grow six-fold over five years
Maori investors are expected to invest up $2 billion per year over the next ten ... “There is an opportunity and indeed increasing momentum for Maori ... View article...
Israel Folau accuses Rugby Australia panel member of bias
... that tribunal member Kate Eastman SC should not have been allowed to judge his case because she had=s previously advocated for LGBTI rights. View article...
Do more on aged care diversity, govt told
... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTI communities and rural or remote areas, ... View article...
Cyprus press condemned for 'harassing British woman accused of falsifying gang rape allegations'
The organisations, which include the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, the Green party women's movement, Accept LGBTI, and the ... View article...
This is the state of LGBTI rights around the world in 2018.
While several countries still battle stigmatization and persecution, the data shows that LGBTI rights have inched forward this year. View article...
Southern Lights celebrate first six months
“Ice Hockey is a small community, so being able to find LGBTI people to play with is a really good thing,” Matthews said. “The team has formed a ... View article...
Christian Porter dismisses concerns about conversion therapy
The government's bill has been criticised by human rights, LGBTI rights groups and religious bodies and conservative groups. The Attorney General is ... View article...
Whether it's he, her, them, ze, or judy, getting pronouns right isn't so hard
When people want to make fun of the LGBTI community the go-to-gag is to add as many letters on to the acronym as possible, including TLC, BLT and ... View article...
The Horrific Nazi Treatment of the LGBTI Community
The Nazis treated many groups they saw as different terribly – and the LGBTI community was no exception. Here, Kim Barrett starts by considering Dr ... View article...
The advertising industry has been unable to get talent from the indigenous community
“It's relatively quite competitive to get indigenous people into companies ... There are more Indigenous kids going to university in Australia now than ... View article...
New exhibit to feature whales and Aboriginal connections
“The recent redevelopment of Flagstaff Hill saw a much-needed Aboriginal ... The Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme is ... View article...
Perth's $510 Million Australian Biome Project One Step Closer
Perth's $510 Million Australian Biome Project One Step Closer ... change the narrative and our interaction with Aboriginal Australians once and for all. View article...
Don't put off starting a business, waiting for the perfect time. That time is now
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country bootstrap the ... Ingenuity is a natural part of Indigenous business because often we start from ... Guardian Australia is proud to partner with IndigenousX to showcase the ... View article...
When farmers struggle, we all struggle
We need Australia to understand the profound impact of drought on Aboriginal people and the importance of Aboriginal culture and our connection to ... View article...
Katherine's crime rate debated in Parliament
In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are over-represented in the criminal justice system. They make up 27% of the adult prison ... View article...
An Art-Themed Adventure Down Under
Learn how Aboriginal people lived in ancient times and how they maintain their ... Following dinner, join the stars of Opera Australia for a concert of the ... View article...
'Bigger than the Beatles': The legacy of Lucky Dube
In remote communities across central Australia, desert reggae blares from car stereos .... And the lyrics resonated in remote Aboriginal Australia too. View article...
Let's Talk Cancer Hui
Speakers included two oncologists, a haematologist, psychologist, nurse educator, Rongoā Māori practitioners and two patients who talked about their ... View article...
Pākehā and Māori should acknowledge all of colonisation's consequences
It may not have credited Cook with discovering New Zealand, in so many ... That didn't stop Cook from recognising the admirable aspects of Māori ... View article...
Early learning success builds children's wellbeing
“This research is an urgent national priority in Aotearoa, New Zealand,” ... Māori children (aged 3-14 years) and 1.8 times more likely than non-Māori ... View article...
Proposal to use KiwiSaver for investment properties 'long overdue'
In the 1980s, 78 percent of New Zealanders owned the home they lived in. ... The initial proposal to alter how KiwiSaver works, came from a Māori ... View article...
India-NZ summit shines light on opportunities for Kiwis
Trade between New Zealand and India is poised for growth over the ... of Employment and Associate Minister for Māori Development Willie Jackson ... View article...
First organ transplant hui designed to help break down barriers
"There are many barriers to transplant for patients with end stage renal disease that result in lower kidney transplant rates for Māori, compared with NZ ... View article...
NZ Maori Council launches new program, “Eke Runga”
“If we are truly to solve the challenge of poverty within the Te Ao Maori world we must lift our people from the low wage and low skills growth side of the ... View article...
The Maori Party could spoil Jacinda's dreams for a second term
The Māori Party have selected the exceptionally talented Debbie Ngarewa-Packer as their candidate in the very vulnerable seat of Te Tai Hauāuru ... View article...
Diversity, inclusion in businesses promote innovation, throw open niche markets: conference
A 2016 study by iSEE and UNDP found that on average 30 per cent of LGBTI respondents in Việt Nam reported being denied employment based on ... View article...