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How an NT community with shocking heart disease rate is turning its health crisis around

Maningrida residents suffered the highest rates of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in the country before Aboriginal Community ... View article...

They put blanket stereotypes around you': How boarding schools fail Indigenous students

When Aboriginal student Nicole* joined a Catholic all-girls college in Melbourne, the school immediately enrolled her in English as an Additional ... View article...

Will NSW's proposed new cultural heritage laws protect Aboriginal artefacts?

Aboriginal Affairs NSW deputy secretary Shane Hamilton said the bill in its current form made its promise of independence from government “ ... View article...

Aboriginal Astronomy Finally Gets Its Due

When Australian Aboriginal astronomer Ghillar Michael Anderson was a young boy, Elders of his community chose him as a future leader. View article...

When is being Māori not enough? Why Māori politics are always personal

More important is the Māori perspective.” And last week in parliament, Labour minister Kelvin Davis accused Act MP Karen Chhour of seeing the world ... View article...

Māori ward seats up for grabs in Nelson, Marlborough for first time

For the first time in Te Tauihu, the top of the South Island, Māori wards have been established in both Nelson and Marlborough this local body ... View article...

Māori performers sidestep into colonial world of Christchurch

Despite Māori attendees concern that The Māori Sidesteps should be wearing "armour", standing ovations have been the more typical response to ... View article...

When is being Māori not enough? Why Māori politics are always personal

In May, Labour Minister Willie Jackson referred to Act leader David Seymour as a "useless Māori " for his lack of advocacy for Māori . More recently, an ... View article...