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$18M to build new and improve existing boarding school facilities in Central Australia

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from remote Northern Territory communities. The Central Australia Boarding Response Fund comes ... View article...

Indigenous man calls on Federal Government to help reduce age pension discrimination

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. He had called for access to his aged pension at 64, instead of at 67, arguing this was in-line with ... View article...

Vanessa Hudgens Announces Pregnancy at 2024 Oscars

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past, present and future. We acknowledge the stories, traditions and living cultures of Aboriginal  ... View article...

Albert Kelly Returns to the Broncos to Inspire the Next Generation

Former Bronco Albert Kelly is using his skills and experience to mentor the next generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to ... View article...

Taking the Treaty out of child protection law risks making NZ a global outlier

But without the section, Māori will again be left without recourse within the act to challenge that state power. Australian prime minister Anthony ... View article...

Pukapuka offers pointed to Māori-led violence response

The compiler of a new book on family and sexual violence says Māori need to look for solutions within their own communities and history. View article...

Discover the New Zealand Town Featured in the Film "Boy"

The film “Boy” is a New Zealand classic directed by Taika Waititi. Set in the year 1984, it follows an 11-year-old Maori boy's life. The quiz by 1News ... View article...

Smokefree law scrap endangering next generation – Māori health experts

Māori health experts are saying the Government is writing off another generation of Māori and Pasifika to an early death. View article...

HSF joins leading law firms to launch Bilya Boorn scholarship for Aboriginal and Torres ...

The scholarship is open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who are enrolled or intend to enrol in an undergraduate or postgraduate law ... View article...

New data shows Australia failing on key Closing the Gap targets

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, it's not been enough to put the goal of ending the gap by 2031 on track. Of the 19 targets, five ... View article...

White tradie at the centre of shocking footage of Aboriginal kids bound with cable ties ...

'If it was the other way around, if an Aboriginal man was holding three white children, like that, and saying to the families, you can wait until the ... View article...

Northern Native Seed Grants to boost Aboriginal businesses

... Aboriginal economic empowerment. "By fostering the growth of Aboriginal -owned enterprises in the native seed sector, we are contributing to the ... View article...

NZ is tourism booming — but what do visitors want more of?

... Māori Court, " to see our Māori cultural experience.. where they spend half an hour learning about Māori s ong, dance, and haka," with tourists at ... View article...

Police force catch waves in Far North surfing comp

Police from across Aotearoa have flocked to Ahipara, Far North for their very own surfing competition. One local Māori policeman says catching a ... View article...

Pacific museums discuss return of taonga

The Auckland War Memorial Museum is hosting the Commonwealth Association of Museums 2024 conference and 12 Pacific Island representatives from nine ... View article...

Health coalition launches petition to protect school lunches

... Māori , which is gutting,” HCA co-chair Professor Lisa Te Morenga said. The same survey showed just 5 per cent of children aged 0-14 years get the ... View article...

Rising Resistance to GSK's Dolutegravir Sparks Concern in HIV Treatment Landscape

The WHO reports growing resistance to dolutegravir, a key HIV drug by GSK, raising concerns about the future of antiretroviral therapy and the ... View article...

Dr. LaRon Nelson on Community-Engaged Research, Future HIV Prevention Options, and More

At the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), HIV .gov caught up again with Dr. LaRon Nelson to discuss ... View article...

Statin Therapy Recommended for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in HIV

Statin therapy was recommended for patients with HIV infection older than 40 years at risk for ASCVD in updated guidance released by the US HHS. View article...

Tanzania to tackle HIV, hepatitis, and STIs in unified approach

Making a health care island of HIV control has held back efforts to catch and treat related illnesses, advocates say. That's about to change. View article...

One million 'Introduction to AI' scholarships available to Australians

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

Good Return helping First Nations businesswomen achieve economic empowerment

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

New political context likely to worsen child welfare outcomes

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

Study shares wāhine Māori birth experiences

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...

Authenticity row casts cloud over Indigenous voice vote

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

The Yolngu people of East Arnhem Land in the NT

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

Tony's Aboriginal art mix is now at a gallery in Singapore

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

Footage shows young Aboriginal children bound and detained by man in Broome

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...

Immediate Investigation Approved For Government's Māori Language Policies

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

Iconic Māori legend elevated by by Taki Rua, YOOCrew and Artificial Imagination

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

Māori cirque show brought to life through te reo, acrobatic storytelling

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...

Funeral insurer misrepresented Indigenous ownership

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

Indigenous construction company's "shells" set to boost housing supply across northern Australia

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

Imagine if remote community houses were designed by their Indigenous residents

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

Indigenous man could have lived "a normal life" if diagnosed correctly, inquest told

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

Māori culture threatened under changed policies by NZ government

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...

Rangatahi Māori establish health, wellbeing kaupapa for youth

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...

Shane Jones questioned on scrapping of Aka Whai Ora, Smokefree laws

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...

Waitangi Tribunal approves application for urgent inquiry into government's te reo Māori policies

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...

Diabetes Australia takes research funding fight to Parliament

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

New Home For Victoria's First Aboriginal Creative Hub

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...

Collapsed funeral fund misrepresented itself as Aboriginal owned or managed, court finds

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

Racism in NT police probed at inquest into Kumanjayi Walker's death

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...

Newshub closure leaves Māori journalists worried about future

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...

Minister Denies Ignoring Doctors' Worries About Māori Health Body

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

Doctors 'devastated' over scrapping of Māori Health Authority

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

Māori Hui aa motu movement backed by Pacific leaders

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...

You've got to look back before you can move forward

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

B.C. First Nation sues federal government over ban on herring spawn fishery

... 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...

New grants for truth-telling in the NT

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 wins science award for research in cancer treatment for First Nations people

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

Blending Maori Art and Modern Tech in Heritage Space

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

Tears, anger as Māori Health Authority scrapped in urgent debate

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...

Māori Health Authority Disestablished

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 political update with Rawiri Waititi

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...

Allied Health excellence recognised

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

Aged Care Workforce Planning and Support Programs

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

Doctor who incorrectly diagnosed Aboriginal man with drug-related illness said it ...

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

NT Police announce investigation into racism claims as Zachary Rolfe returns to witness box

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

Bill to disestablish Māori Health Authority introduced, derailing Waitangi Tribunal hearing

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...

New Zealand moves to abolish Maori health authority despite protests

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 wins environmental legal battle against polluters

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

Opposition slams Government as it moves to scrap Māori Health Authority

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 youth crime hearings are held in regional Queensland, inquiries slammed for 'delivering no value'

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

NSW government policy review recommends increased f...

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

First Nations South Australians step forward to have their voices heard

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

Tasmanian forest industry backs Aboriginal land returns for logging

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

Concern over rural NZ's low hospitalisation rate

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

There will be hell to pay': Te Pāti Māori's stern warning to Govt over gang crackdown

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...

King joins traditional Pacific leaders

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...

OraTaiao Opposes The Scrapping Of Te Aka Whai Ora And Urges Delay Of Enabling Legislation

“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...

Wearable Tech Battles Stroke Risk in Aboriginal Communities

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

Aboriginal fire experts to teach northernmost iwi how to do traditional burnoffs

“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...

Improving food security in remote First Nations communities

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

First Nations engagement guide launched for renewable energy sector

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

Maori and Pacifica health outcomes lagging behind others

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...

New Zealand 'divided by race

... 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...

Has to change': Māori health leaders calls for Oranga Tamariki to be 'dismantled'

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

Realtor Janet Dickson facing five-year ban for refusing Māori values course

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...

NSW initiative supporting Aboriginal children to offer a path forward in early-childhood learning

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

New support to empower more South Australians into work

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

Family of young Indigenous woman who took her own life in Melbourne hospital call for investigation

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

Unis need new angle for attracting Indigenous engin...

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

Taiwan's Indigenous languages are under threat – what can NZ learn from their ...

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

Dumplings and fried bread – more than one way to celebrate a new year

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

Aotearoa on the brink of measles 'epidemic'

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

Kura Reo courses sell out in minutes as demand grows

"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...

Systematic review of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' experiences and ...

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

Health expenses huge burden for Aboriginal families

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

NT Voice to Parliament considered by legal affairs committee

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

Closing the Gap report is a wake-up call

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

Concerns grow over MAPAS review

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

Waitangi Tribunal to launch urgent inquiry into scrapping of Māori Health Authority

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

Unravelling the Treaty of Waitangi debate: words matter, but so does history

... 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 report on population health out

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...

The most important issue AFANT has ever faced

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...

Aboriginal Led Family Violence Service Trial

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

Indigenous lessons for border force

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...

The new National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

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