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Advertisement The campaign to change the date of Australia Day from January 26 is supported by fewer than a third of Australians although half believe the contentious date will be shifted within 10 years. An Ipsos poll for The Age/Sydney Morning Herald and Nine News found only 28 per cent of 1222 people surveyed nationally were in favour of shifting the date, while 48 per cent were opposed and a further quarter neither agreed or disagreed. A woman at a 2019 Invasion Day march in Melbourne carr...

The campaign to change the date of Australia Day from January 26 is supported by fewer than a third of Australians, although half believe the contentious date will be shifted within 10 years.

Malekula, the second-largest island in the Vanuatu archipelago, has a linguistic connection to Aotearoa. All of its many languages are distantly related to te reo Māori and the island is the site of a long-term project to document them. Vanuatu has been described as the world’s “densest linguistic landscape”, with as many as 145 languages spoken by a population of fewer than 300,000 people. Malekula itself is home to about 25,000 people, who between them speak more than 30 Ind...

Malekula, the second-largest island in the Vanuatu archipelago, has a linguistic connection to Aotearoa. All of its many languages are distantly related to te reo Māori and the island is the site of a long-term project to document them. Vanuatu has been described as the world’s “densest linguistic landscape”, with as many as 145 languages spoken by a population of fewer than 300,000 people. Malekula itself is home to about 25,000 people, who between them speak more than 30 Ind...

Plains Earthlodges: Ethnographic... The past 500 years have seen a myriad of terms used as referents to indigenous Americans, including American Indian, Native American, First Nation, Eskimo, Inuit, and Native Alaskan. Some of these terms are used almost interchangeably, while others indicate relatively specific entities. The term American Indian is often used to refer to the indigenous cultures of the Western Hemisphere in general; its constituent parts were in use from at least the early 16th...

NetNewsLedger 171 Kiiwetinoong – New Democrat MPP Sol Mamakwa has been re-nominated to seek a second term as the NDP candidate in the riding. Mamakwa is the NDP Critic for Indigenous Issues, often going up against Premier Doug Ford and Indigenous Services Minister Greg Rickford. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath states, “Sol is a strong voice for his community, shining a light on the inequities people in Kiiwetinoong live and breathe each and every day. Shame on the governments past an...

Related Podcast Opinion: In January this year, Duncan Garner said that he had it on “good authority” that a deal would be done on Ihumātao by Waitangi Day. Nothing happened. Later that month, then Leader of the National Party Simon Bridges said that he had it on “excellent authority” that a deal would be done before the end of that month. Nothing Happened. I have it on excellent authority that a settlement will be announced today. Te Ahiwaru-Ngāti Māhuta have been systematically excl...

Related Podcast Opinion: In January this year, Duncan Garner said that he had it on “good authority” that a deal would be done on Ihumātao by Waitangi Day. Nothing happened. Later that month, then Leader of the National Party Simon Bridges said that he had it on “excellent authority” that a deal would be done before the end of that month. Nothing Happened. I have it on excellent authority that a settlement will be announced today. Te Ahiwaru-Ngāti Māhuta have been systematically excl...