5G deal a unique opportunity, say Māori negotiators
A deal under which Māori will be allocated a significant slice of 5G radio spectrum marks a change for the past, says New Zealand Māori Council ... View article...
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Unblocking finance at scale to cool the planet
Three of New Zealand's top innovators have teamed up with the founders of ... and Māori economy specialist and tech entrepreneur Mike Taitoko have set up Toha Foundry to develop and launch the Toha impact investment platform. View article...
Māori King's adviser Rangi Whakaruru admits fraud charges
A close confidant to Maori King Tūheitia has pleaded guilty and been convicted by the Serious Fraud Office with lying and misappropriating tens of ... View article...
Are we losing potential sportswomen to avoidable injury?
From being the first in the world to gain the female vote to Jean Batten setting aviation records, to Iriaka Ratana becoming the first Māori woman ... View article...
Maori leaders tackle blind spot in government's approach to alcohol harm - Hapai Te Hauora
This week a collective of mana whenua, MÄ ori health providers, advocates and community take their concerns about alcohol harm inequities to a ... View article...
Maori voice to help shape tertiary education
“We have heard that Māori want to be involved in the Crown's work to ... This is particularly important for regional New Zealand, and for primary and ... View article...
Māori King's advisor pleads guilty to fraud charges, including for gastric bypass surgery
The Māori King's private secretary has pleaded guilty to six fraud charges – some related to his own gastric bypass surgery - with the Auckland District ... View article...
Maori voice to help shape tertiary education
“We have heard that Māori want to be involved in the Crown's work to ... This is particularly important for regional New Zealand, and for primary and ... View article...
LGBT+ in Australia
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The violence of the frontier wars has never really ended
This incident is now classed as one of the over 420 Aboriginal deaths in ... to as Australia, it claimed it was terra nullius, meaning it was uninhabited. View article...
Partnership brings Australian Aboriginal 'Memorial Poles' exhibition to UVA community
presents 112 memorial poles by 55 artists from remote Aboriginal communities in the tropical northern region of Australia known as ... View article...
Australian government offered up outback for nuclear testing to save a small English village
How the Australian government offered up an outback Aboriginal settlement for nuclear bomb testing in the 1950s – saving a small English town but ... View article...
Were Aboriginal Australians the primary astronomers?
What's in the stars? Barnaby Norris. By Ray Norris. On a good night, I can name about 20 stars. can name roughly 3000. I am originally from ... View article...
Former High Court chief justice Robert French to head access to justice inquiry
The peak body for the legal profession, the Law Council of Australia, ... the founding chairman of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia and ... View article...
New Eora walk for Sydney
Independent Aboriginal curator Emily McDaniel will curate a series of ... and artworks along Sydney Harbour foreshore, from the Australian National ... View article...
Climate change hysterics need a lesson in Australia's bushfire history
It's a severe drought in much of eastern Australia coupled with the ... Prior to European settlement, Aboriginal people would routinely set fire to the ... View article...
Aboriginal rugby coach Jarred Hodges boycotted the term 'Indigenous'. Here's why
After being put in charge of a fledgling program to discover Indigenous playing talent this year, Hodges sent a timely message to mainstream Australia ... View article...
Moko kauae becoming a 'rite of passage' for increasing numbers of Māori women
Moko kauae becoming a 'rite of passage' for increasing numbers of Māori ... A 2013 survey by Statistics New Zealand found 15 per cent of tangata ... View article...
Colonial Combat reinvents colonisation as a level playing field
To envision wrestling matches between Māori and Pākehā in 1836 at the pivotal moment in the history of colonisation would seem to make light of the ... View article...
Maori Tezuka retires from porn aged 80
Maori Tezuka, a former opera singer who made her debut in Japan's flourishing 'silver porn' industry at a sprightly 71, blamed her decision partly on a ... View article...