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Why I had to quit teaching to get science into primary schools

Every week over 8,000 primary school students around the country are doing science experiments in their classrooms, many in te reo Māori thanks to ... View article...

National's 'dispiriting' discussion document misses chance to push for ...

National's rank-and-file members came close to open rebellion in reaction to hundreds of millions of dollars being handed to Māori. Labour backed ... View article...

Māori Council defends its role at national hui, aims to strengthen position within Government

Hosting the Children's Minister today the council acknowledged it's lost ground as a voice for Māori but is pushing to strengthen its position with the ... View article...

Te reo teacher who inspired generations of Marlburians a 'treasure'

A fluent te reo Māori speaker, a kapa haka teacher, a composer and a choreographer, Chadwick has inspired generations of young people to reach ... View article...

Shane Jones betrays Maori's love for all peoples

The behaviour on display of a man who is also a Senior Cabinet Minister, when the Prime Minister of New Zealand wants to be the champion of ... View article...

Spreading the word on safe sleep, SUDI and wahakura

Māori babies are eight times more likely to die of sudden unexplained death in infancy (SUDI) than other babies, and addressing this is imperative, ... View article...

Clayton McMillan puts his hand up for Super Rugby

The NZ Maori coach has been instrumental in shaping that process and after seeing the 'fruits of the labour' he admits he shares the same ambitions ... View article...

A new, unified approach

Carla also won the regional award from the Maori Women's Development Inc for her Maori trucking business. Businesses are undertaking more ... View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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Core legal service funding secured for Indigenous survivors of family violence while national body ...

Minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt, has promised a funding boost for legal services helping Indigenous survivors of family and domestic ... View article...

Germany's Saxony State Collection repatriates 45 ancestral remains to Australia

Today, there are an estimated 1,600 Australian Indigenous remains in museums, universities and collections around the world, taken by scientists and ... View article...

Tourists rush to climb Australia's Uluru before ban comes into force tomorrow

Tourists rushed to climb Australia's indigenous sacred rock Uluru on Friday – the last day before a ban on ascending the monolith came into force. View article...

Catherine Freeman's call to bring on southeast Queensland Olympics

Freeman, whose Cathy Freeman Foundation is active in indigenous communities across Queensland and Australia working to help expand horizons ... View article...

There's a new push for the return of looted Aboriginal artefacts – in the name of 'truth telling'

Australian parliamentary and government inaction on stolen sacred Indigenous cultural material and human remains in foreign collecting institutions, ... View article...

Indigenous finance: closing the financial gap

“The governments of Australia pump A$33 billion a year into the social realm of Indigenous people's lives, and they don't pump anything into the ... View article...

Indigenous artefacts returned after decades in overseas museums

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) negotiated with the University of Manchester's Museum in the United ... View article...

What price spiritual connection? Yolngu seek compensation for cultural destruction

And non-Indigenous Australians, to understand what is at stake, will need to grapple with equally complex, challenging notions of Indigenous and ... View article...

Prince Charles and Camilla touch noses with Maori group in New Zealand

and Camilla kicked off another day in New Zealand with a full Maori welcome on the grounds of Auckland's Government House. The Prince of Wales ... View article...

Rotorua mountain biker Tuhoto-Ariki Pene caps off stellar year with Māori sports award

Every year Māori sports stars from around New Zealand take on the world and at the weekend they were celebrated at the 2019 Māori Sports Awards ... View article...

$5m project to begin building NZ's first 'gene bank'

A collaboration with iwi, the Genomics Aotearoa Rakeiora programme is also taking aim at major health inequities that still leave Māori and Pacific ... View article...