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Minister tries to map path to boost vaccine rates among Indigenous Australians

First Nations stakeholders met with minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt on Friday to identify ways to build community trust about being vaccinated ... View article...

Thoughtworks' First Nations Delivery Centre supports working on-Country

... software career opportunities for Indigenous technologists in Australia and ... of Australians identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, ... View article...

General John Frewen says vaccine supply issues are over, warns Indigenous rates must increase

COVID-19 Taskforce Commander Lieutenant-General John Frewen has also told Australian Community Media that vaccination rates among Indigenous Australians must be ... View article...

Third Indigenous virus death in NSW region

Three out of every five people testing positive for COVID-19 in western NSW are Indigenous, as the region records its third death. An Aboriginal man in his ... View article...

The irony in the response to David Seymour releasing the Maori ...

Do you know one of the ironies of the twitterati and commentators and Maori politicians losing their minds over David Seymour releasing that Maori access ... View article...

Delta lockdown: Couple provide 1000 home cooked meals to isolated ...

... he had rallied a team of fish filleters to prepare a tonne of fresh snapper donated by Moana Fisheries - New Zealand's largest Maori-owned fishery. View article...

Popularity of Te Reo Māori challenge surprises organisers

This year, the Mahuru Māori month has started partway through September - a new twist to align with the maramataka, the Māori lunar calendar. Professor Rangi ... View article...

New Respiratory Disease Report Highlights Back-to-school Asthma Risk And Inequity For ...

A new report on New Zealand's respiratory health shows that huge inequity persists in ... disease except for asthma and COPD, where Māori rates are higher. View article...

Nobody listens to us': Indigenous women call for separate domestic violence plan

“Australia does have a problem,” he said. ... and National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Alliance chief executive Sandra Creamer said there ... View article...

On stage for Indigenous psychology program

Over the preceding 13 years there had been two inquiries and two inquests into Aboriginal youth suicide in Western Australia. View article...

Aboriginal woman in her 70s becomes second COVID-19 death in western NSW

Enngonia is a long way away and it has no resources. "There cannot be a mad scramble every time there is an outbreak in regional Australia — if that is the ... View article...   - ABC News

Aboriginal woman from Enngonia with COVID dies in Dubbo Hospital

A second Aboriginal person has died in Western NSW after contracting COVID. ... in his 50s who died at Dubbo hospital became Australia's first Indigenous ... View article...

Exemplary nurses receive Human Rights and Nursing Award at ...

“As Māori nurses, we also experience that discrimination and injustice and have survived by living in two worlds. We have learned to live in contradiction ... View article...

The Stark Inequity Of The Vaccine Rollout

Māori vaccination rates are still lagging behind those of other ethnic ... Analysis: Even as New Zealand's vaccine rollout surges, the gap between Māori and ... View article...

Absurdity is a real lifesaver

Hinemoana Baker is one of today's most exciting New Zealand poets. The Berlin-based author, whose parents have mixed Māori and Pākehā (white settler) ... View article...

Māori vaccine equity scheme criticism blows back on Seymour

ACT leader David Seymour's public sharing of a priority vaccine code for Māori is disgraceful and disgusting, and undermines efforts to improve Māori and ... View article...

Politicians got a fair bit right on Covid-19 as journalists split on party lines

Neither has a timid, politically correct media been intelligent enough to look seriously at the cultural factors in Aboriginal Australia and in outer ... View article...

Indigenous leaders in talks over jab lies

Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt and National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation chief executive Pat Turner met with the group on ... View article...

McGowan says Western Australia hard border could extend into 2022

"We have got to get into some of those communities that have low levels of vaccination, Aboriginal communities, poorer parts of the state.". View article...

National Summit on Women's Safety goes virtual, with government under pressure to ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 11 times more likely to die ... violence prevention body Our Watch, and the Australian National Research ... View article...