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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 communities fight for healthcare access

Indigenous Australians have been identified as one of the demographics most at-risk during the coronavirus pandemic - however, medical experts ... View article...

How the COVID-19 lockdown has created a 'perfect storm' for domestic violence

Dr Denise Wilson, a professor of Māori Health at AUT University's Taupua Waiora Māori Research Centre says New Zealand's lockdown response to ... View article...

Australia gives free child care as coronavirus case curve flattens

Australia gives free child care as coronavirus case curve flattens. Assistance is part of $121bn package to help economy 'hibernate' during outbreak. View article...

Australia to offer child care during pandemic

Parents are increasingly keeping children home from schools and child care centres due to the risk of COVID-19 and several child care centres have ... View article...

Governments aren't leveling with Canadians about the COVID-19 future we face

New Zealand is planning for 65 per cent of the public to become infected, ... cent of the most elderly Maori New Zealanders to perish from COVID-19. View article...

Māori health service sets up new ways to reach whānau in need

A kaupapa Māori health provider has set up a phone helpline and online chat service to keep connected with whānau during the coronavirus ... View article...

Maori and Pasifika 'bubbles' are much larger

Aupito Su'a William Sio says as Maori and Pasifika, our social nature and our culture means that our bubbles are much larger and tend to be over ... View article...

Lessons in history when it comes to checkpoints

The pandemic had a severe impact on Maori, whose death rate of 4.2 percent was five to seven times higher than the non-Maori death rate, according ... View article...

The art program healing Indigenous offenders

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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

Cherbourg, devastated by Spanish flu, among Indigenous communities in COVID-19 lockdown

The Australian Government's travel restrictions to remote Aboriginal and ... near one of the biggest centres connecting western and eastern Australia ... View article...

COVID-19 Management Plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations

It is expected that the Management Plan will be a livingdocument that will be periodically updated to support and meet the objectivesof the Australian ... View article...

indigenous communities close off to avoid virus disaster

With Aboriginal Australians among the most vulnerable to underlying health conditions, the battle to stop the spread of the coronavirus could literally ... View article...

Town of Wilcannia takes radical step of instituting community-wide lockdown

Aboriginal people are vulnerable,” she told news.com.au. The immediate lockdown also extends to all Wilcannia residents. “To locals, we're saying, 'We' ... View article...

Dr Nick Chamberlain 'we are doing everything we can'

... Northland DHB chief executive Nick Chamberlain to all Northland DHB staff, primary and community care providers, Māori providers, aged care and ... View article...

TikTok videos show what Kiwis are up to during isolation

Maori flash-card challenge. Popular New Zealand TikTok creators, Judaxx & Nixon, have shared a Maori flashcard challenge they have been doing to ... View article...

Jewish Māori Director Taika Waititi Makes History at the 2020 Oscars

I'll get to that in a bit, though, because first I want to talk about when Waititi, who is Jewish and Māori (an Indigenous people from New Zealand), made ... View article...

Facebook group set up for learning Māori during NZ's lockdown

Hemi Kelly is a Māori language lecturer at Auckland University of Technology and he has created a Facebook group called “A Māori Phrase A Day” ... 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

New modelling shows thousands could die if Covid-19 eradication plan fails

Almost 28,000 New Zealanders could die of Covid-19 in a "worst case ... be higher for Māori and Pacific people and those living in deprived areas. View article...