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Recap : Aboriginal Community

Recap : Māori | NZ

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Recap : Māori | NZ

LGBT+ in Australia

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Democritus Centre remembers invasion and genocide ahead of Australia Day

The Day of Mourning, a protest held by Aboriginal Australians on 26 January, first began in 1938. Since then, the anniversary of the arrival of the first ... View article...

Looking Toward a New Era of Australian Cuisine

I've eaten wonderful Thai food in the middle of Australia's largest national ... Mr. Shewry pays tribute to the Aboriginal people from whom he gets his ... View article...

Australia Burns Furiously but Still Remains an Attractive Destination to Sri Lankans

The similarities between some Aboriginal place names and Sinhala words may be purely ... Sri Lankan migration to Australia has a long history. View article...

Sounds Australia Announces New Additions To Team: 'I Am Thrilled'

Sounds Australia has today announced two big additions to its team. ... a significant increase in the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

Calls to turn around removals of Maori children from whanau

He says Maori are two and a half times more likely than non-Maori to be hospitalised because of assault, and they're almost twice more likely to report ... View article...

Waka Te Hono ki Aotearoa connects Dutch and Māori cultures

The events are cohosted with Toi Māori Aotearoa in collaboration with Ms. Bieringa, Waitangi Treaty Grounds and the National Library of New Zealand ... View article...

Primary Sector Council's starry-eyed vision

It centres on the Māori concept of Taiao, which emphasises respect for, and ... Jager claimed “Fit for a better world” was a uniquely New Zealand ... View article...

Better attitudes to ageing enhance autumn years

Although the Maori population was youthful compared to the overall New Zealand population, Maori positive ageing was not only concerned with ... View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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#Egaylity –— Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

First Indigenous musical sees the light of a brand new day

Thirty years on, the first Indigenous musical is seeing the light of a brand new ... Bran Nue Dae was written in 1990 and based on the life of Australian ... View article...

How Australia's Indigenous Consultants Might Assist Australia Deal With Devastating Wildfires

Australia has all the time had bushfires, the results of being the driest inhabited continent on earth mixed with excessive temperatures. Its indigenous ... View article...

Australia: National Security Laws Chill Free Speech

Refugee rights, indigenous rights, and aged care are, among other issues, raising concerns. Australia has demonstrated some progress in its ... View article...

Free speech under threat: Australian whistleblowers, journalists and protesters are being ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders continue to be over-represented in Australia's criminal justice system, with indigenous children 26 times more ... View article...

How millennials turn the rising tide against ageism

Although the Māori population is youthful compared to the overall New Zealand population, Māori positive ageing is not only concerned with older ... View article...

Crafting Aotearoa: A uniquely New Zealand story of cultural change

Early European settlers started incorporating New Zealand and Māori motifs in their architecture and art from the 1880s. According to ethnologist ... View article...

Pakeha protest swamps Maori narratives

A Māori filmmaker and storyteller says the stand-off over Ōwairaka-Mount Albert shows the need for Pākehā to come to terms with Māori aspirations. View article...

Skills Active appoints Bentham Ohia as acting chief executive

Formerly Chief Advisor Iwi and Māori Education Relationships with the Ministry of Education, Ohia worked for Te Wānanga o Aotearoa for 20 years as ... View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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#Egaylity –— Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

Adventure tourism destinations urged to focus on authenticity

It cited Australia as an example where tourists can participate in indigenous tourism activities such as traditional festivals, dances and guided tours, ... View article...

Aboriginal historian wants more trees cut to prevent bushfires

Aboriginal historian wants more trees cut to prevent bushfires ... order to restore landscapes to the way they were managed by Indigenous Australians. View article...

Where To Go If It's Too Smoky To Be Outside In Melbourne

... to the Melbourne Museum, where for about $10, you can spend the day learning about Australia's indigenous people and the cultures of the Pacific, ... View article...

Welcome to a marriage of cultures in Black Ties

Indigenous-Australian actor Mark Coles Smith, who plays the main Maori character Kane, described his love-struck persona as "perhaps almost the ... View article...

Camping ambassadors at hand to offer 'hospitality in the Kiwi way'

“Taking care of our whenua, Tikanga Māori.” That is soon clear in the conversation that subsequently takes place between Ngawhika and the couple. View article...

Internship aims to increase Māori health workforce at Hawke's Bay DHB

Māori medical students are interning at Hawke's Bay District Health Board as part of a programme aimed at increasing Māori health workforce. View article...

J-Term Speaks to the Culture of University

She says within the last 40 years there's been a major effort to revitalize the Maori language in New Zealand and it has been so successful that it's ... View article...

Scarlett Johansson enters elite company, Adam Sandler snubbed

Waititi, a Maori Jew from New Zealand, said in the film's production notes that he experienced prejudice growing up for his dual identity. View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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#Egaylity –— Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

Indigenous Australians Minister dismisses call for Aboriginal identity register

Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt has rejected the idea of a national Aboriginal identity register and criticised the actions of a prominent ... View article...

Tasmania keen on indigenous fire plans

Tasmania plans to work more closely with members of the Aboriginal community ... Massive deadly bushfires on mainland Australia this summer have ... View article...

Australia drops 4600 kilos of food, water from helicopters to feed ...

The New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Carrier in Australia ... Moral last week, Aboriginal officers in South Australia licensed the killing of ... View article...

The Australian bushfires rage, but the anger is misplaced

Australia's aboriginal communities, meanwhile, have been living with the ... Australia's average surface temperature has increased by about 1.5°C ... View article...

Māori elders offer support for Ōwairaka / Mt Albert tree protection group

Elders from local iwi have sided with an environmental group pushing to protect hundreds of exotic trees on Mt Albert, in Auckland. For months ... View article...

Historian explores Bluff's connection to the global economy

The first seal hunts in New Zealand, for example, took place because seal skins could be traded for tea in ... "There's a distinct Māori history here. View article...

What Makes The Māori Haka One Of New Zealand's Most Striking Cultural Displays?

I've just witnessed the Māori haka, one of New Zealand's most striking cultural displays. A traditional war dance involving ferocious facial expressions, ... View article...

Sydney Festival Theatre Review: 'Black Ties' is a warm exploration of Indigenous and Maori relations

Black Ties sees this culture clash cleverly told between an Indigenous and Maori family, highlighting both the similarities and stark differences ... View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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#Egaylity –— Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

How First Australians' ancient knowledge can help us survive the bushfires of the future

Having 45 years' experience working with Indigenous people across northern Australia and internationally on the management and development of ... View article...

Bruce Pascoe's identity is no business of the Commonwealth

In 1935 a fair-skinned Australian of part-indigenous descent was ejected from a hotel for being an Aboriginal. He returned to his home on the mission ... View article...

Ken Wyatt rejects call for national register of Aboriginality

Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt ruled out a registry on Sunday after the Australian Federal Police confirmed it was assessing an allegation ... View article...

Vanuatu's Indigenous groups fight for recognition of bungee jumping's roots

Mr Fargo says he and other Indigenous chiefs from Vanuatu have called for ... When asked to respond on Indigenous groups calling for recognition, ... She says that the current legal systems in Australia and other countries are ... View article...

Wellington artist carries the lessons from her whakapapa into her work

Canvases full of colour lean against the walls and light falls through one tall window, across an oil painting of an elderly Māori woman. Her great ... View article...

Everyone in Wales will be able to speak Welsh in 300 years - believe scientists

The data, published by the Royal Society, compares Welsh and te reo Māori, the indigenous language of New Zealand, as a case study. That shows ... View article...

Grim warning as mercury stays high

A Maori climate change activist says it's too late to adapt if you're dead. Hinekaa Mako says news 2019 was New Zealand's fourth warmest year on ... View article...

For New Zealand's Maoris, even touching this sacred tree is taboo. They let scientists climb to help ...

He was about to ascend a 148-foot-tall, 2,000-year old kauri tree known as Tāne Mahuta, a tree so sacred to the indigenous Maori people that even ... View article...

Recap : Aboriginal Community

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Recap : Aboriginal Community

Recap : Māori | NZ

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Recap : Māori | NZ

LGBT+ in Australia

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#Egaylity –— Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

Western Australia Digitizes Indigenous Languages

The Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre has launched a series of four immersive apps produced in the Digital Innovation Hub the ... View article...

Coen running out of food, shelter as scores of Aurukun refugees flood into town

Chair of the Coen Regional Aboriginal Corporation, Dion Creek, said the ... Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt said in a statement he was ... View article...

8000-Year-Old Aboriginal Rock Art Destroyed During Bushfire

Archaeologists confirm the ancient Aboriginal rock art in Australia's Baloon Cave cannot be restored after fire damage, caused by a recycled plastic ... View article...

Loss of Aboriginal cultural burning leaves Australia's forests overgrown, ready to explode ...

proving Aboriginals used fire to carve Australia's forests into open landscapes of scattered trees, with little undergrowth, is being ignored in ... View article...

Te Pare Joseph a man of peace and service

He was also a champion of Māori language and culture. “He made sure his broadcasters all spoke in te reo Māori. He said it was important a Māori ... View article...

DHB to offer no appointment oral health care to Flaxmere youth

While all basic dental care services are free in New Zealand up until the age of 18, attendance rates for Māori and Pacific tamariki aged 0 to 12 in ... View article...

Maori in schools might not be the way to go to save the language

A new University of Canterbury study has modelled how efforts to keep the Welsh language from disappearing have worked - so they can be applied ... View article...

Restaurant owner boycotting Watties over campaign poking fun at Māori place names

The billboards feature New Zealand towns changed to names like Piehia, ... Christchurch Māori language Anton Matthews advocate doesn't see the ... View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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#Egaylity –— Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

Elton John pledges $1 million to relief effort as smoke reaches as far as Argentina

Sir Elton John has pledged $1m to the relief effort in Australia where wildfires ..... The order came from Aboriginal leaders in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara ... View article...

NSW and Victoria bushfire communities assess damage as PM visits Kangaroo ...

Before white settlement, Aboriginal people were a constant presence in the landscape, and traditionally burnt country by walking the land. This meant ... View article...

Emerging Aboriginal Filmmakers Tackle Post-Colonial Australia in Horror ...

Here is a horror project to keep an eye out for. There is a new horror anthology coming out of Australia called Dark Place, a project that approaches ... View article...

Australia To Kill Thousands Of Camels Amid Wildfires: Report

Authorities in Australia will begin five-day campaign to kill thousand of ... local government area for Aboriginal Australians) executive board member, ... View article...

What does it take to build an indigenous resistance movement?

He Kākano Ahau is a podcast by writer and activist Kahu Kutia (Ngāi Tūhoe) that explores stories of Māori in the city, and weaves together strands of ... View article...

Leading Aboriginal and Māori theatre companies are joining forces on a new rom-com

“He's really overjoyed by having his boy marry a Māori girl,” Uncle Jack says. “It's enlivened him, given him a new sense of his own spirituality and ... View article...

Maori call for Iran war boycott

A Māori Peace activist says New Zealand needs to stay out of the United States war with Iran. The assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani ... View article...

Leading Aboriginal and Māori theatre companies are joining forces on a new rom-com

It's their first collaboration with Maori company Te Rēhia Theatre from New Zealand. The seed was sown when Ilbijerri toured Jack Charles V The ... View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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#Egaylity –— Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

Study to fight food insecurity in Indigenous communities

The three-year research project, designed in conjunction with the Apunipima Cape York Health Council and the Central Australian Aboriginal ... View article...

The summer school giving Indigenous teens an introduction to university life

Steed Carter has just finished Year 11 and is among a group of Indigenous school students spending a week on campus at Canberra's Australian ... View article...

Meet the all-female Indigenous fire crew protecting community, family and sacred land

Charmaine's crew is Australia's first all-Indigenous, all-female fire brigade, a highly-skilled bunch of mothers and grandmothers who can pull a ... View article...

Don't Forget The Devastating Impact The Bushfires Have On Indigenous People And Donate To ...

How are the aboriginal people in Australia doing with the fires? ... Media coverage has basically ignored Indigenous people in the bushfires, and the ... View article...

What does Māori architecture look like today?

Architectural designer Jade Kake looks at the role tikanga and hapūtanga plays in Māori architecture and design, and how tauiwi architects can ... View article...

Historian and author Dick Scott dies on New Year's Day

Historian and journalist Dick Scott who uncovered the darker side of colonialism and the treatment of Māori has died at 96 years old. Dick Scott, most ... View article...

Heather Ayrton has called it a day

"I'm quite proud of the project, and the way in which Māori and Pākehā ... Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Northland manager Bill Edwards, ... View article...

NSW volunteer firey farewelled in Sydney

Members of the Maori community performed a haka outside the church following the service as a sign of respect, before Mr O'Dwyer's casket was ... View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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#Egaylity –— Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

Ngati Paoa faction seeks new mandate

The board will next month put its appeal against a Māori Land Court decision removing its authority to represent the trine in Resource Management ... View article...

Australian Sky Resembles Aboriginal Flag As Bushfires Create Red Hue

More than 20 people have been killed by bushfires that are ravaging Australia. Hundreds of thousands more have been evacuated from their homes ... View article...

Man behind the largest cannabis haul in the Northern Territory sentenced in Darwin

A South Australian "career criminal" who was behind the largest cannabis importation seen in ... "This is an extremely serious offence, cannabis does a lot of damage here and in Aboriginal communities," Justice Kelly told the court. View article...

“Ancestors Are Saying Something”: Aboriginal Flag Appears In Skies Above Burning Australia

In what is now being recognized as the worst Australian wildfire season in recorded history, the skies have turned blood-red over the southeastern end ... View article...

Still Too Strong For You, Karen: Black Family Targeted By White Neighbours Offer Their Home To ...

Mr Wirramanda Knight's calm response – 'Too strong for you, Karen' – became an instant hit and has become synonymous in Aboriginal Australia with ... View article...

Most popular baby names of 2019 revealed

Mia and Nikau remain the top Māori girls and boys names respectively. The Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Jeff Montgomery, said ... View article...

Te reo Maori pronunciation lessons from Alexa

Smart devices like Amazon's Alexa are becoming more commonplace in Aotearoa but it seems they've still got a way to go before they can nail our reo ... View article...

Through understanding and respect

The celebration will open with a traditional Maori welcome and feature a citizens ceremony for the city's newest Kiwis. “It will be a privilege to stand on ... View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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#Egaylity –— Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

NSW south coast residents furious at 'lessons unlearned'

“What has happened here, because of the red tape and everything else, one thing that Australia should have learnt from Aboriginal people is the fire ... View article...

The Voice to Parliament isn't a new idea

The first Aboriginal political organisation, the Australian Aboriginal ... and published widely across NSW, South Australia, Victoria and Queensland. View article...

Black pavilion filled with glass yams examines colonisation in Australia

Colonisers declared Aboriginal settlements in Australia empty to allow for their seizure, dispossessing indigenous communities of their land and ... View article...

Half a billion animals may have been killed by Australia fires

Half a billion animals may have been killed by Australia fires ... Aboriginal communities are suffering in the heat waves At this stage the deniers are ... View article...

Rating the government's progress on environmental issues: Mike Smith

"The government's decision to not issue any new permits for oil and gas exploration was achieved by relentless campaigning by Māori communities, ... View article...

New Otago University study looks at how bad salt is for your health

"I think there are some specific foods that Māori may eat - kaimoana for example, a lot of shellfish is high in salt," Māori Advisor Christina McKerchar ... View article...

Australia Vs New Zealand: 20 Reasons To Choose One Over The Other

The Maori tribes are well-known throughout New Zealand and Australia, and visitors have the chance to learn even more about them during their trip. View article...

Exploring the Land of Kiwis

Here I learned Maori first reached New Zealand about 1200-1300 AD after migrating for centuries through the Polynesian Islands. They called New ... View article...

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Recap : Aboriginal Community

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Recap : Māori | NZ

Recap : Aboriginal Community

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Recap : Aboriginal Community

Recap : Māori | NZ

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Recap : Māori | NZ

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