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More than 900 patients harmed in New Zealand

Māori are less likely to have adverse events reported within the healthcare system, according to a report released on Thursday by the Health Quality ... View article...

New children's books present fresh approach to NZ history

In a fresh approach to aspects of Aotearoa history, two new children's books launched this week, Māui's Taonga Tales and its te reo Māori companion ... View article...

Drug Foundation wants treaty in cannabis law

The Drug Foundation wants Māori to be involved in the drafting of the laws that will be required if New Zealand votes for legalisation of recreational ... View article...

Maori rationed out of disabilty care

New Zealand Disability Support Network chief executive Garth Bennie says the crisis caused by a decade of neglect and underfunding means the ... View article...

Researchers and scholars at the top of their fields elected

Over the past three decades, his expansive research into New Zealand's ... More recently, in work with Māori families, she has documented how ... View article...

Raukawa ki te Tonga AHC appoints Guy Royal

In 2003 Guy returned to New Zealand and established a specialist firm Tuia Group to provide legal and commercial advice to clients including Māori entities on large-scale commercial transactions. Tuia Group (through its arm Tuia ... View article...

Ōpōtiki council has all-woman leadership team

As well as being New Zealand's only Māori mayor, Lyn Riesterer is leading Ōpōtiki Council's first all-woman leadership team. Ōpōtiki District Council ... View article...

Artists assemble: Indigenous art creators gather to share ideas at Ngaruawahia hui

In fact, it is a rongoa (traditional Maori medicine) and embedded in ... The International Indigenous Arts Gathering was last held in New Zealand in ... View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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Blood sample return a powerful symbol of reconciliation

The blood, or manggu in the Yolgnu language, comes from local Indigenous Australians and was collected after a typhoid outbreak on Elcho Island in ... View article...

Bangarra Dance Theatre comes to Chicago, bringing the dance of indigenous Australians and ...

At the tail end of a five-city Canadian tour celebrating its 30th anniversary, Australia's Bangarra Dance Theatre is stopping in Chicago for the first time. View article...

Ralph Naden gets recognised for making his dreams into a reality

"I am not slowing down", Central West Indigenous elder Ralph Naden said after winning the Elder of the Year at the 2019 Dreamtime awards last ... View article...

Independent review of Land Negotiation Program

“The Land Negotiation Program aims to give Aboriginal people greater ... “The vesting of Crown Land to Local Aboriginal Land Councils can provide ... of the Law Council of Australia's Indigenous Issues Committee for 15 years. View article...

Role of maternal age at birth in child development among Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...

Indigenous Australian children are twice as likely to score poorly on developmental outcomes at age 5 years than their non-Indigenous peers. View article...

ABC's Indigenous documentary 'contains brand-new history': Bolt

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the ABC is set to show an Aboriginal documentary series which contains “brand-new history”. Mr Bolt was critical of ... View article...

Rock stars – the Indigenous artists inspired by Uluru

Uluru, also known as Ayres Rock, the grand monolith dominating the landscape in Australia's red centre, has been a sacred site for Aborigines for ... View article...

Re-imagining a museum of our First Nations

Indigenous voices are finally being acknowledged as important voices in ... Since 2014, I have worked as an advisor to Western Australia's New ... View article...

Government building special housing to accommodate kaumātua

"In 2034 it is estimated there will be 178,000 New Zealanders over the age of 85. Of those, over 109,000 will be Māori and that presents us with a great ... View article...

Pakeha maunga protest sign of future tension

A Māori lawyer says a predominantly Pākeha protest against the clearance of pest trees on an Auckland volcano may be a sign of things to come as ... View article...

Armed Police & Cannabis prohibition - 2 examples of bias against Maori

Arming Police and continuing with cannabis prohibition have enormous impacts on Māori and the impacts are all negative and seeing as social policy ... View article...