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Toobeah, Queensland: Battle ramps up over claims 95 per cent of this small town could be ...

... Aboriginal Corporation (BAC) as Indigenous freehold title. A Change.org petition launched this week by Toobeah publican Michael Offerdahl opposing ... View article...

Justice on the gender agenda for First Nations women

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar says. ... New legal framework in Victoria has been labelled a betrayal of ... View article...

First Nations green hydrogen project wins federal grant

Securing the feasibility funding is a crucial milestone for the Aboriginal ... Aboriginal Corporation and climate investment firm Pollination formed ... View article...

Youths charged with serious crimes to wear monitoring bracelets under Victorian trial

The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service opposed the trial and said it meant young people would be "deprived of their liberty" without being found ... View article...

Polyfest 2024: Diversity, Māori groups shine in day one of festival

Polyfest opened with performances on the Māori and Diversity stages. · It's the biggest secondary school cultural competition in the world. View article...

Hauora Māori champions look ahead

Māori health providers have celebrated the progress made since the kaupapa for hauora Māori was laid down at the Hui Whakaoranga 40 years ago. View article...

Cutting sorely needed supports for carers is cruel and harmful

... Māori and whānau can continue to access disability supports within the ... “ Māori fishing, Māori farming, and farms led by whānau Māori all focus ... View article...

Treaty principles should be principles of good government

Māori legal scholar Carwyn Jones says the coalition Government 's intention to exclude Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation may be shutting ... View article...

Connecting to ancestors and culture through art

Piper Stewart is a young Indigenous ARTEXPRESS artist who wants to inspire other young Aboriginal women to embrace creativity and culture. View article...

Anachronistic red tape must be cut away for good of Indigenous communities

There has long been a view inside bureaucracies that home ownership in remote Aboriginal communities is unworkable. View article...

Petition to prevent Toobeah transfer to Aboriginal freehold picks up momentum

Toobeah community launches petition to fight land transfer to Aboriginal freehold. A Queensland community's fight to stop “95 per cent” of the town ... View article...

Bardi Jawi people of Dampier Peninsula try to free traditional lands from state Aboriginal ...

Aboriginal communities north of Broome have asked the Albanese government to help them unravel outdated land rules that prevent them from owning ... View article...

Voters urged to enrol for council elections

... Māori electoral roll or general electoral roll for the city council election. “Voters on the Māori roll will vote for a candidate in the new Māori  ... View article...

Thousands sign letter to support students in Seymour haka

The letter, addressed to mokopuna Māori at Freyberg, began by ... Māori parent." "Your stand has come with a price, and we also want to ... View article...

Te Pati Maori says the Prime Minister has no right to police their language

Co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer says unless Luxon's experienced racism as a Maori , he can't tell Maori how they should be speaking out about it. >> ... View article...

Polyfest 2024: Diversity and Māori stages open for start of Polyfest

A mass haka will herald the start of this year's Auckland Secondary Schools' Polyfest, which kicks off with the opening of the Diversity and Māori  ... View article...

Scholarship supports Indigenous students to aim high in the capital

Ten aspiring Indigenous secondary students have been provided support through the annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Secondary ... View article...

Inquiry into removal of Indigenous children in South Australia

... Aboriginal babies deemed at risk, without their mothers' knowledge. The state's Aboriginal Children's Commissioner is investigating the ... View article...

Amnesty's Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan 2024-2026

To be an effective human rights organisation, we will continue working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in their fight for ... View article...

Australian Communities Unite, Led by Treasurer Chalmers, Stan Grant |

"ChangeFest shows that when we work together as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and allies, communities and government, young people, and ... View article...

NZ aims to take Guinness World Record for the largest haka from France

... Māori All Blacks. Neither of those attempts were officially recognised. There are now moves afoot to officially take the title off the French and ... View article...

Whakarongorau chief executive defends shorter queue for Māori callers

Chief executive Glynis Sandland says this measure is designed to put callers in touch with a Māori clinician- and they get moved to the regular ... View article...

Ōtaki hapū present their case to Waitangi Tribunal

The claims cover how hundreds of thousands of hectares of land from Manawatū to Kāpiti was taken from Māori by the Crown via pene raupatu, or ... View article...

NZ aims to take Guinness World Record for the largest haka from France

... Māori All Blacks. Neither of those attempts were officially recognised. There are now moves afoot to officially take the title off the French and ... View article...

Pioneering two-way language initiatives recognised

“Patricia has a unique gift for translating academic ideas about Aboriginal English to an Indigenous world view and then somehow incorporating this ... View article...

Focus on the regions for expansion of Escaping Violence Payment Place-Based Trials

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Escaping Violence Payment (EVP) place-based trial. Assistant Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence ... View article...

Western Australia announces funding for RSV protection

Nirsevimab will be available at birthing hospitals, GP practices, community health clinics and at Aboriginal Medical Services across Western Australia ... View article...

Rescued travellers returned to Kalgoorlie-Boulder after four days stranded in WA's flooded Goldfields

The three elderly adults and four children were found about 220 kilometres south-west of the remote Aboriginal community of Tjuntjuntjara. Two men ... View article...

No promises for lower rent from reintroduced interest deductibility rule

A housing expert says mortgage tax deductions could slow down the growth in rents but doesn't guarantee rent drops ... Property economist Kelvin ... View article...

New play pays tribute to Pasifika and Māori staff who worked at Crown Lyn factory

A new play inspired by the Māori and Pasifika staff who worked at Crown Lynn, an iconic Kiwi crockery factory in Auckland, will debut at Te Pou ... View article...

Councillor's 'no' vote in te reo misrecorded

The Māori ward councillor said he often used the word “ae”, meaning yes, when voting. It was similar in pronunciation to “aye”, and left little ... View article...

School lunches get a grilling on Pacific Mornings political panel

Twenty-six per cent are Māori , and almost 37 per cent are Pacific children," Pope says. The Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches programme feeds ... View article...

NT governments announces 10-year, $4 billion remote housing agreement

... Aboriginal land councils and the peak body representing remote housing in the NT, Aboriginal Housing NT. The federal government estimated the funding View article...

South Coast Native Title holders file class action against NSW for cultural loss

Traditional Owners say the state breached the Act by prosecuting Aboriginal fishers who were participating in protected cultural fishing practices. View article...

NSW Indigenous groups warn of danger posed by harsh bail laws for children

A coalition of 12 groups including the ALS, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and NSW Aboriginal Land Council revealed that multiple ... View article...

WA floods: severe weather hampers search for seven people missing in remote Western Australia

... Aboriginal community. Western Australia police said in a statement on Wednesday that they had not been able to deploy any air assets as part of ... View article...

Te Papa launches book on war taonga and their significance to New Zealand history

Te Papa kaihautū Māori ... Attendees were able to gain firsthand perspectives of the challenges faced by both Māori and Pākehā communities during this ... View article...

Play Inspired By The Māori And Pasifika Workers At Iconic NZ Crockery Factory

... factory in Auckland, will debut at Te Pou Theatre in May. The Handlers , written by Māori /Afro-Caribbean playwright Poata Alvie McKree and ... View article...

Waikato-Tainui back Chiefs Manawa haka: 'The bravery of this team ought to be celebrated'

Chiefs management has acknowledged that the karanga before the haka "spoke of the importance of Te Ao Māori ", but refused to answer questions around ... View article...

Te Aka Whai Ora is dead, long live...whatever comes next

... Māori input into the legislative process? Who knows? Dr Reti stuck to his script about a “new vision” for Māori healthcare, better outcomes ... View article...

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...

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...