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Why Christians disagree over the Israel Folau saga
26 Jun 2019Opinion: For many Christians, Folau has become a talisman for religious freedom. But not all Christians see it that way, writes Geoff Thompson for The Conversation.
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World's indigenous people gather in New Zealand
26 Jun 2019Indigenous people from around the world have gathered in Waikato for what is being described as an historic conference.
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Queer people twice as likely to report depression
27 Jun 2019A new study published today has found that members of the queer community are twice as likely experience depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts as their straight peers. Audio
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Parliament hears call to ban conversion therapy
14 Jun 2019The House - There are numerous people offering conversion therapy in New Zealand, something highlighted in a TV documentary last year and which sparked Max Tweedie's petition on behalf of Young Labour… Audio
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Andy's long road from disability to independence
15 May 2019First Up: Andy Oliver - whose family got Fonterra to change its milk tanker schedule for him - is finally living in his own home on his family's dairy farm, thanks to a pilot programme. Audio
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Netball: NZer could be world's first transgender national sport coach
3 Apr 2019New Zealand's men's netball coach Sarah Michelle Hansen-Vaeau believes she's the first transgender person to coach a national sports team.
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Global rainbow conference attendees waiting on visas
10 Mar 2019About 50 participants for a global rainbow community conference still have not been granted visas ten days out from the event in Wellington.
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Support for Greens' plan to help LGBTQI community
10 Mar 2019The Rainbow New Zealand Charitable Trust says the government is lacking a single entity where organisations like theirs can discuss problems facing the LGBTQI+ community.
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Stats NZ document grouped queer and takatāpui people with paedophiles
21 Feb 2019Statistics NZ has apologised to LGBTQI communities after its new guidance for sexual identity data collection lumped queer, takatāpui and pansexual people in the same group as paedophiles.
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Aotearoa vs NZ: 'It's inconsistent with who and what we are now'
A petition calling for a referendum to decide whether Aotearoa should officially be used alongside New Zealand as the name for the country has been launched. Audio
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Domestic violence against migrants: we need action
27 Jan 2019Opinion - As another domestic violence murder against an Asian migrant woman goes through the courts, Wellington's Shakti - which provides culturally appropriate services to abused women - remains the…
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'It's about getting all our iwi together ... to remind them to come home'
18 Jan 2019More than 100 people have paddled down the Whanganui River between marae, learning about the river and refreshing their connections to it.
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Why aren't more women on NZ music festival stages?
12 Jan 2019The gender imbalance in music festival line-ups persists this year, despite the noise in promoters' ears getting louder. Kirsten Johnstone asks why this is still an issue.
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Cliff Curtis calls for women, Māori leadership in NZ film industry
15 Nov 2018Top New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis has called for the film industry to put more women in charge.
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Inside the attempts to revive Ngāi Tahu dialect
28 Sep 2018For the last 20 years, Hana O'Regan has been part of a group looking to revive the Ngāi Tahu dialect and ensure its survival.
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Rangatahi's UN trip: 'The UN is a western-built mechanism'
3 Jul 2018A group representing rangatahi Māori have returned from their trip to a UN forum where they say the organisation's overt western framework was evident from their moment of arrival.
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Being an intelligent woman of colour is a curse - NZ-born Fijian lawyer
2 Jul 2018A Fijian lawyer who has worked in the industry for almost 20 years says every day she faces some form of racism.
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Supervising a teen party 101: Stay awake
18 Mar 2018There are clear and unavoidable responsibilities that come with being in charge of a group of teenagers. The Labour Party has failed dismally on that front, Finlay Macdonald writes.
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The year women set the fire alight
8 Mar 2018Often International Women's Day feels like a day of disillusionment. This year is different, Di White writes.
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Women kick off celebrations of 125 years of suffrage
7 Mar 2018Hundreds of New Zealand women clad in purple and white crammed into Government House's ballroom today to kick off celebrations marking 125 years of women's suffrage, writes Emile Donovan.
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From butt of the joke to kicking bullies' butts
9 Feb 2018First Person - Megan Whelan doesn't remember the first time she realised she was fat, but she knows how long it took to learn to be kind to herself.
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Dropping an anvil on sexism: It had to be Oprah
9 Jan 2018Opinion - Stories of sexual harassment and abuse too often become about one bad person doing isolated bad things, in a vacuum. At the Golden Globes Oprah stood up and said 'not this time', writes…
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New cannabis law a half-baked cure
27 Dec 2017Opinion - The government's medicinal cannabis legislation is a cruel gimmick that meets its manifesto commitments but does no more than that, writes former associate health minister Peter Dunne.
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Lawyers set 'achievable' gender balance target
5 Dec 2017Some of the country's largest law firms and their clients are committing to having women take the lead role on at least 30 percent of their major litigation cases.
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