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Waikato researchers awarded $5.6m from Marsden Fund

... as a hallmark of excellence for researchers working in New Zealand. ... in New Zealand and in other colonised countries has overlooked Māori and ... View article...

Abuse in care inquiry: 'Colonisation is an inherently abusive process'

In New Zealand, Māori men make up 62 percent of the prison population and Māori women 64 percent. Mr Jackson said the common thread was they ... View article...

University of Auckland welcomes Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden

Why a gene variant specific to Māori and Pacific people increases blood pressure, understanding how colour-blind octopus are so exceptional at ... View article...

All-in-one transport app just one idea floated at Lightning Lab GovTech

Manawa – a tool service providers can use to accurately capture what matters to Māori so government can identify necessary steps to improve ... View article...

Local control of fishing rules have been upheld by Court of Appeal in Mōtītī case

A Māori trust says the decision to give local councils the right to set fishing regulations is the right one. The Court of Appeal today decided the Bay of ... View article...

St George boys head to NZ on trip of a lifetime

“They not only built friendships with others from Australia, but they made new connections with the Maori people.” Drawing 28-all against Tokora High ... View article...

New Zealand's migrant boom is good news for Māori. It empowers us

New Zealand's migrant boom is good news for Māori. It empowers us ... We are expanding our coverage of New Zealand.  View article...

What we can learn from Indigenous land management

In Aoetaroa / New Zealand, Maori have asserted their sovereign rights to forge agreements which grant the Whanganui River and the Te Urewera ... View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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Trans Tasman indigenous business links sought

Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta is keen for an indigenous cooperation arrangement covering Māori and Australian Aboriginal businesses ... View article...

One in three people with a mental illness develop symptoms before age 25. We need a stronger ...

... has highlighted the growing burden of mental illness in Australia. ... and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are more than twice as ... View article...

South Aust Aboriginal community runs dry

An Aboriginal community on South Australia's west coast has run dry and has called for help from the federal government to subsidise water carting ... View article...

New Quinkan rock art research in far north Queensland

“This project will provide data of national significance to assist our understanding of the nature of Aboriginal settlement in north-eastern Australia and ... View article...

How local elders are bringing Aboriginal perspectives into Sydney schools

... Aunty Maxine Ryan takes kids on hikes around Aboriginal landmarks, cooks traditional bush tucker with students and makes shell maps of Australia. View article...

Victorian Aboriginal voters have elected an Assembly to advance the treaty process. So what's next?

Throughout the process of colonisation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia have been killed and massacred in Frontier ... View article...

Aboriginal Health Practitioner

The University of Western Australia (UWA) is ranked amongst the top 100 ... to improve the health and wellbeing of older Aboriginal Australians. View article...

A 60000-Year-Old Cure for Depression

“Australia's indigenous Aboriginal people have the oldest living culture on Earth. For around 60,000 years, their intricate understanding ... View article...

Britain hopeful of 'close relationship' with iwi following expression of regret over killing of Māori ...

Britain's High Commissioner to New Zealand has elaborated on the statement of regret made to Gisborne iwi over the first interaction between Māori ... View article...

People were told to follow the money but I followed the truth.

My recent book shows New Zealand is no different and, in my view, ... on New Zealand is about (I exclude significant sections in the chapter on Maori ... The fake liberals were very different from a traditional NZ labor party but few ... View article...

Local control of fishing rules upheld by Court of Appeal

Local control of fishing rules have been upheld by Court of Appeal in Mōtītī case. A Māori trust says the decision to give local councils the right to set ... View article...