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Victoria to forge on with raising the age of criminal responsibility, new bail laws.

Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) chief executive Nerita Waight went on the front foot, arguing it was the policies of the LNP that put ... View article...

Indigenous Australian fire-stick farming began at least 11,000 years ago

Analysis of a sediment core dating back 150,000 years showed that fire patterns in Australia changed with the rise of Indigenous people’s use of fire. View article...

Indigenous employment centre receives 'life-changing' cash from feds

... Aboriginal Community Career Employment Services Society, or ACCESS as it's known. “It's life-transforming. We have students who have gone on to ... View article...

Scientists team up with local Indigenous rangers

Scientists are unlock the mysteries of remote Top End coastlines by teaming up with Aboriginal rangers. Share. View article...

Song of New Zealand 'Pokarekare Ana' and Korea's 'Yeon-ga'

Although my English was very limited then, Rule and Wade alluded to "Pokarekare Ana," a Maori love song, fostering cultural exchanges that transcended ... View article...

Supporting anti-racism and decolonisation of public health teaching ...

The research used a kaupapa Māori methodology in four stages including the development of draft levels of competence for all core competencies, ... View article...

Tamahori's Convert is a film of two halves

The Māori population of the country is around 80,000, while the European settler numbers are closer to 2000. The Europeans only exist here by the ... View article...

PM Luxon denies delays to treaty settlements

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon denies there will be delays to treaty settlement because of public sector cost cutting. Māori Crown Relations-Te ... View article...

$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...