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We strive to ensure every Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander learner in NSW achieves their potential through education. Students and job ... View article...

We recognise Aboriginal Community's continuing connection to their lands, waters and stories and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded." ... View article...

Repealing child protection legislation will fail Māori all over again. Most of the substantive 'wins' arising from the complaints process that are ... View article...

Improving the sometimes-devastating birth and post-natal experiences of wāhine  Māori  in Aotearoa is the aim of a group of University of Otago ... View article...

A dispute has erupted over the authenticity of some Indigenous candidates for South Australia's Indigenous voice to parliament as Aboriginal  ... View article...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, ... View article...

I am a multi-disciplinary Indigenous Australian artist based in South Australia and Southeast Asia. I have a diverse cultural heritage: Aboriginal  ... View article...

Broome locals are expressing outrage after photos and a video emerged of two very young Aboriginal children being detained by a man on a driveway, ... View article...

Waitangi Tribunal grants urgent inquiry into New Zealand government policies affecting te reo Māori , following Ngāi Te Rangi's application ... View article...

Hutt City Council censors work of revered and respected Maori leader. Hutt City Council banned an insert of Sir Apirana Ngata's 'Treaty of Waitangi ... View article...

'Hatupatu Kurungaituku – A Forbidden Love' from Wellington-based Taki Rua Productions opened Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts on 20 ... View article...

A te reo Māori circus-theatre show about generational trauma and its impact on youth told through acrobatic storytelling is being staged at Te Pou ... View article...

The Full Federal Court ruling upholds an appeal by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and overturns a ... View article...

A Darwin-based Aboriginal construction company is leading a new initiative set to boost remote housing supply in northern Australia. View article...

... Aboriginal people had been supported by governments, architects and the construction industry to develop communities in their own ways. Homes ... View article...

... Aboriginal patients are presenting at a later stage of their cancer," the Wakaya man said. Professor Paradies highlighted data showing Aboriginal  ... View article...

Māori activists are concerned the changes proposed by the new Coalition government in New Zealand will threaten the past 50-years of progress. View article...

A group of Hawke's Bay rangatahi have launched a new kaupapa called Manaora Rangatahi Guidelines, which is all about making health and nutrition ... View article...

NZ First deputy leader Shane Jones joined Te Karere to discuss the scrapping of Te Aka Whai Ora - Māori Health Authority under urgency, ... View article...

Tauranga-based iwi Ngai Te Rangi lodged the application in December claiming the government had violated its Treaty obligation to protect the Māori  ... View article...

A national diabetes prevention phone line; An expansion and adaptation of the Diabetes in Schools program to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... View article...

Victoria's first Aboriginal arts and tourism hub has a new home in the heart of Bendigo where local artists can show their work and traditional ... View article...

Youpla Group schemes, formerly known as Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund, left thousands families unable to pay for funerals. View article...

More than four years ago, an attempt to arrest an Aboriginal man in central Australia ended with his death. Police officer Zachary Rolfe was ... View article...

Kairīpoata Māori from across the media sector say the proposed discontinuation of its news branch is one less media outlet where aspiring Māori  ... View article...

Health Minister Dr. Shane Reti dismissed concerns from 740 doctors about the dismantling of Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority, ... View article...

A letter signed by more than 700 doctors has requested details on how the Government planned to continue prioritising Māori health outcomes. View article...

Our experience as te iwi Māori is we also have to heal the past, relative to Papatuanuku (earth mother) but also the oppression that we, the people of ... View article...

RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Chair Dr Karen Nicholls told newsGP that truth-telling is important because people and communities ... View article...

... decision to close the commercial harvest of herring spawn-on-kelp in the nation's territory was an infringement of its Aboriginal rights. View article...

Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Treaty Chansey Paech said his government was helping to facilitate a shared understanding of the "past actions and ... View article...

Dr Justine Clark is the co-recipient of the 2024 Australian Academy of Science Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scientist award. View article...

Discover how the Naenae Community Centre in Lower Hutt showcases traditional Maori art infused with modern manufacturing techniques. View article...

The Māori Health Authority has been killed off by the Government amid tears and bitter protest from Opposition MPs. Set up in 2022 after two ... View article...

Legislation to disestablish the Māori Health Authority, as moved in Parliament today, heralds the start of a new vision for Māori health, ... View article...

Te Pāti Māori sent a letter to the speaker of the house requesting an urgent debate around the use and abuse of urgency to expedite the ... View article...

Social Worker and proud Wiradjuri woman, Madeleine Bridge, has been recognised for her unwavering commitment to Aboriginal patients and their ... View article...

... the Business and Workforce Advisory Service and the Remote and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Aged Care Service Development Assistance Panel. View article...

Ricky Hampson Jr was diagnosed with cannaboid hyperemesis syndrome at Dubbo base hospital, shortly before he died from perforated stomach ulcers. View article...

... Aboriginal teenager, Kumanjayi Walker. And a warning to our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers that the following story has images of ... View article...

The National-led Government has forged ahead with a plan to scrap the Māori Health Authority, tabling it before Parliament and in doing so, ... View article...

Centre-right government says health agency set up to improve access for Maori people will be abolished by end of June. View article...

Māori elder and environmental advocate, Mike Smith, has won a monumental legal battle against the largest emitters in New Zealand. View article...

The Government has killed Te Aka Whai Ora - the Māori Health Authority despite pleas and protests from Māori . Staying true to National's campaign ... View article...

As Aboriginal women who have lived alongside families impacted by youth crime, they were eager to share their perspectives. They say government ... View article...

New South Wales is home to almost 90 independent multicultural and Aboriginal publications and 210 radio programs, spoken in more than 56 ... View article...

The inaugural First Nations Voice will provide a direct line of communication between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities around South ... View article...

Those forests are all high conservation value and should have been protected.” The foundation supported Aboriginal ownership without logging trade- ... View article...

“Despite the poorest health outcomes, highest levels of socioeconomic deprivation and the highest proportion of Māori residents, these areas have ... View article...

Te Pāti Māori has warned the Government that if its gang crackdown overreaches into Māori rangatiratanga - or sovereignty - there will be hell to ... View article...

The Māori king is in Fiji this week for a meeting of traditional Pacific leaders. Fijian paramount chief Epenisa Seru Cakobau invited leaders from ... View article...

“In order to address the many health inequities and health system disparities experienced by Māori , it is vital to have a truly Māori -led structure, ... View article...

Aboriginal health experts at the Heart Research Institute (HRI) are sounding the alarm on atrial fibrillation (AF), a leading cause of stroke, ... View article...

“We had the full burn team from Australia come up to Kapowairua and at that stage they were a full female burn team of Aboriginal traditional owners.”. View article...

The Albanese Labor Government is improving food security in remote Aboriginal communities and investing more than one million dollars on a range ... View article...

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Best Practice Principles for Clean Energy Projects. First Nations Clean Energy Network co-chair Karrina ... View article...

Māori develop lung cancer 6-8 years earlier than non- Māori on average and at lower exposure to smoking. Total mortality. In New Zealand, about 33,000 ... View article...

... Māori . He says the referendum result proves people don't want 'race-based rights' as he pushes ahead with his controversial plan to redefine New ... View article...

Māori health leaders say scathing Ombudsman's report into Oranga Tamariki further proves the troubled agency needs to be torn down. View article...

A real estate agent is facing a five-year ban after refusing to complete a compulsory short course on Māori culture and tikanga. View article...

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children's developmental and learning outcomes was on the agenda  View article...

Eligible groups include Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises that are currently ... View article...

The Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (Vaccho) said it has contacted the state government and the hospital expressing ... View article...

The work of Aboriginal engineers has survived thousands of years but universities are missing out on attracting a new generation of Indigenous ... View article...

Immersion education is an option for students alongside dedicated Māori news media. Te reo Māori is also increasingly used in mainstream schools, ... View article...

The Lunar New Year, celebrated by billions around the world, shares some similarities with Matariki, the Māori New Year. View article...

"These measures include supporting Māori -led vaccination programmes that engage effectively with communities, responding to misinformation and ... View article...

"By the end of that first kura reo, I remember it I was dreaming in te reo māori . It was in Christchurch and I went up the street to get a break ... View article...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) populations of Australia experience higher rates of both cancer morbidity and mortality than the ... View article...

Getty ImagesRural Aboriginal families are sleeping rough, borrowing money and avoiding medical treatment to try and reduce or avoid huge ... View article...

Aboriginal Territorians could soon have a direct connection to the floor of the Territory parliament as debate looms over the structure, ... View article...

A new report into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing must be the starting point for renewed action. Australian Catholics are being ... View article...

The Paediatric Society of New Zealand has expressed concern over the Government's decision to review the Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme ... View article...

The Waitangi Tribunal will go ahead with an urgent inquiry into the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority. View article...

... Māori ” in early usage, noting that “with increasing European settlement after 1840, the term widened in application to include non- Maori immigrants”. View article...

Health NZ and the Māori Health Authority - Te Aka Whai Ora are working on the next three-year New Zealand Health Plan, which takes the report's ... View article...

An Aboriginal and recreational fishing action plan for all areas needs to be created to guide fishing in the Territory for the next 50 to 100 ... View article...

The Allan Labor Government is supporting First Nations led family violence services, with Aboriginal service Dardi Munwurro to deliver a new ... View article...

There could have been two boats but they used the same landing site, a dark spot between two remote Aboriginal communities north of Broome. View article...

In Victoria, the position of Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People is not enshrined in legislation, unlike the Principal Commissioner, ... View article...

Samoan health authorities are on alert if the measles vaccination rates in Aotearoa remain low, which may well see a transmission back to the ... View article...

NZ First had 6%, while Te Pāti Māori was on 4%. Te Pāti Māori's result was the highest it had received in seven years in the 1News polls. View article...

Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air The Government will be told tomorrow that its plans to scrap the Māori Health Authority will ... View article...

It was around the time of heightened Māori activism. Harawira steadfastly denied the allegations, telling the jury he had been confronted by his ... View article...

Developing Aboriginal cultural centres, and making WA Australia's Aboriginal tourism leader;; Enticing high yield travellers and international ... View article...

Courtney delivers Djirra's YoungLuv program, teaching young Aboriginal women about healthy relationships and consent. View article...

An Australian Aboriginal Christian Theology of Custodianship and Connection to Country. Rhanee Lester, Adnyamathanha delegate from South Australia at ... View article...

The Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Service said its clinics will not be referring patients against their will to the BDR - because it breached the ... View article...

Maori can't be shut out of water governance because they own most of it. That's according to iwi leaders, who say National politicians shutting ... View article...

Māori All Stars coach Adam Blair goes in depth on his coaching philosophies and some of the tough calls he's had to make early in his career. View article...

Māori are still five times more likely than non- Māori to need social housing. That's according to the Salvation Army's state of the nation annual ... View article...

The Māori Climate Platform was also pointed to as a key action from the Emission Reduction Plan 2022, which would "play a central role in ensuring ... View article...

The NSW Government has taken another step towards improving Aboriginal child safety and reforming the child protection system with the first ... View article...

We need Aboriginal health in Aboriginal hands — not another Close the Gap report. Read More. Because the total Indigenous population is relatively ... View article...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students now make up 6.5 per cent of all school students. The Apparent Retention Rate, which is the estimated ... View article...

"For remote and very remote Aboriginal students, in particular, there is a need to teach using a two-way approach, and also giving strong support to ... View article...

“Despite repeated recommendations for the Crown and Māori to determine the appropriate constitutional protections of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Māori  ... View article...

Mātauranga Iwi Leaders Group (MILG) and Pou Tangata welcomes the discussion on Māori education achievement following the group's first hui with ... View article...

Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission chair Hayden Wano says protecting rangatahi Māori needs to be a top priority. View article...

“The establishment of kura kaupapa Māori , the higher number of tamariki in Māori medium education, and iwi reo revitalisation have been a large driver ... View article...