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Adelaide festival Tarnanthi celebrates the strength of Yolngu art coming out of Northern Territory

As a gauge of Australian contemporary art, the annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAAs) have become key; ... View article...

'We want to see change': Calls for national commissioner for AustralianIndigenous children

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people are 17 ... detention and 10 times more likely to be in out-of-home care in Australia. View article...

Does barramundi only come from Australia?

Barramundi is an Aboriginal word possibly from the Darambal or Gangalu language from along the Fitzroy River west of Rockhampton. They used it to ... View article...

Whanganui crowned New Zealand's most beautiful city

It's got lovely historical buildings that are quite unique to New Zealand and obviously the river, our awa, and that's important to Maori people here ... View article...

'Time to understand our history' as New Zealand Wars remembered in Taranaki

The New Zealand Wars, or land wars, were battles between the Crown and some ... Minister for Maori Crown Relations Kelvin Davis will be part of a ... View article...

Cultivating a new industry for the BOP

Wepiha Health Co is a newly-created entity led by Maori clinical researchers and academics, agriculturalists and leading pharmacists, which is ... View article...

NZ Maori Council warns Greens Minister

The New Zealand Maori Council has once again questioned the Minister involved in approving another deal that has seen a foreign owned company ... View article...

Innocent until proven guilty? Not if you're Māori, poor or homeless

To many New Zealanders the link between remand and the presumption of innocence may not be necessarily clear. Let me explain. When a person ... View article...

Te Pūtake o te Riri: Fierce welcome for Ardern and Māori ministers

Hundreds of Māori toa, warriors, have given Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Māori ministers a fierce welcome to Owae Marae in Waitara for the ... View article...

England could face fine following their response to New Zealand's haka

England's players revealed that Eddie Jones was behind the plan to counter New Zealand's traditional Maori challenge in order to show they were ... View article...

The voices of Maori living with a disability

“This is an opportunity for the voices and stories of Maori living with a physical or intellectual disability to be heard. No more shall our peoples only live ... View article...

'Queen Sugar' captures the struggles of blacks in America

... dominance by white capital, race, class and personal relationships that crisscross the human complexities of bisexual, race and LGBTI dynamics. View article...

Equal Love transforms into Rainbow Rebellion to be a voice for LGBTIQ rights

Up next on the group's agenda is a town hall meeting to discuss LGBTI politics, with Safe Schools founder Roz Ward joining the event via Skype. View article...

Irish government to consider putting gender neutral bathrooms in public buildings

The government is being asked to consider more gender-neutral bathrooms in public buildings, as part of a new strategy to improve the lives of LGBTI ... View article...

Rising populism seen threatening LGBT+ rights in Europe

"There is this discrepancy between perception and reality and LGBTI people do not report this discrimination because they don't trust the local ... View article...

Cameroon's Unity human rights watchdog project expands

The 32 LGBTI rights organizations that formed Cameroon's human rights watchdog group, the Unity Platform, gathered recently in Yaoundé to review ... View article...

One in four would be 'uncomfortable' with a PM of another religion

On the other hand, women, young people, persons with disabilities and members of the LGBTI community did not evoke the same feelings, with rates ... View article...

Military Pride Ball 2019 - DEFGLIS Defence LGBTI Information Service

The Military Pride Ball celebrates the magnificent contribution to Defence capability by people with diverse sexuality and gender. Proudly sponsored ... View article...

Glamping waits for no man in the Top End

Australia offers some of the best glamping in the world, thanks to our ability ... At 20,000 square kilometres, Kakadu is Australia's largest land-based ... but was raised by her father and an Aboriginal woman after her birth mother left. View article...

Putting health equity at heart of universal coverage—the need for national programmes of action

In Peru, mortality among indigenous children under 5 years is over three times .... Australia's National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health plan ... View article...