Posts


Search this blog:    Aboriginal  Māori




Taxpayer funded foundation makes bid for Perth Wildcats

Awarded under the Indigenous Australians Health Program, the purpose of the grant is to “improve the health of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... View article...

The open Australian beach is a myth: not everyone can access these spaces equally

Indeed, Australia's beaches and ocean pools are a window into deep ... As recently as the 1960s, it was routine for Aboriginal people to be banned ... View article...

Indigenous kids nine times more like to be in custody than non-Indigenous children in Victoria

Young people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds in ... It comes as Australia's human rights record, including issues relating to ... View article...

Australia Day screening of Yuin Country documentary at historic theatre in Narooma

The project kickstarted new Aboriginal arts and cultural activities and pushed forward existing ones. “For example, the Dhurga word-of-the-week, Black ... View article...

Andrew Little wants health reforms to go beyond Simpson report

Associate health minister (Māori health) and Whānau Ora minister Peeni Henare has been talking, “probably less formally”, with a number of iwi. “We will ... View article...

Junior doctors get immersed in Māori culture

SCDHB director of Māori health Joseph Tyro (Ngāi Tahu, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Rangi) said their welcome onto the marae and their ... View article...

Support and heat on Gisborne councillor after explaining Māori wards vote

Hobson's Pledge is calling on residents to sign a petition in opposition to Māori wards, in an attempt to send councils that have voted them in to binding ... View article...

New Māori Performing Arts NCEA subject a step towards equity in education system

New Zealand's education system has taken a step towards bicultural equality, with the launch of new NCEA standard Te Ao Haka​. Announced in ... View article...

Meet the son of an ex-NRL star out to inspire more Indigenous kids to play football

Football has the lowest Indigenous representation of all the Australian sporting codes. Only a handful of players have represented the Socceroos or ... View article...

No veto power for Voice to Parliament

After a year of discussions and consultations between three advisory groups selected by Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt and Indigenous  ... View article...

Blak like me: how Destiny Deacon used art to shout back at racists

“Blak – meaning specifically Australian Indigenous people – started to get ... grief and outrage, central to the Black Lives Matter Australia movement. View article...

Naming places after colonialists upholds Australia's racial contract

Murdering and raping Indigenous men and women, girls and boys with a matter-of-factness that only privilege can conjure. The same reassurance of ... View article...

How the government can convince doubters to get a vaccine

Some Māori would be more open to listening to others, she added. The government's information campaign about the vaccine is crucial – especially with ... View article...

The man with a mandate to change the way Kiwibank thinks about Māori

A distinctly colonial institution, banking has long ignored te ao Māori. ... Pihama believes Kiwibank, as the largest New Zealand-owned bank, has an ... View article...

Māori Battalion pou whenua repaired after young culprit's honesty

The pou was carved to memorialise the sacrifices of the 28th Māori Battalion's D Company during World War II, and was unveiled by the Te Tauihu ... View article...

When will you get your Covid jab? Insiders reveal the likely coronavirus vaccine line-up after ...

It will also include indigenous people aged over 55. ... to cover 6.57 million people including Australians over 50, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

Remote indigenous coronavirus jabs for all

The Australian has been told that when the vaccine reaches remote ... that Indigenous health workers in the far northwest of Australia were ready to do ... View article...

UN countries challenge Australia's Indigenous incarceration record in human rights review

Sweden and Uruguay have submitted questions in advance about the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australian  ... View article...

Black Lives Matter movement in Australia: First Nations perspectives

Three prominent Indigenous women speak about one of the biggest social movements in the world and how it matters in Australia . A proud mature ... View article...

Exhibition offers stark interpretation of colonisation

A new exhibition in New Plymouth looks at the impact of colonisation on Māori. Acting gallery director Antony Rhodes and Wharehoka Wano ... View article...