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Sharples setting up Maori Youth Council

Stripper and other acts renew pressure to close Uluru

The run of what traditional owners regard as serious insults to their beliefs and culture has renewed pressure to close Uluru.

Pair escape charge over death of Aborigine

Two security guards won't face charges over the heat stroke death of a West Australian Aboriginal elder in a prison van.

Ayers rock strip-dance appalls Aboriginals

Native Australians are calling for the deportation of a French tourist who offended their cultural sensitivities.

Treaty link to homeless woman

North Island Maori 'sorely tested' - tribunal

Rapid colonisation left Maori in the lower North Island virtually landless and stripped them of decision-making power, the Waitangi Tribunal has found.

Tribe faces extinction at hand of refinery

Dumping MMP huge setback for ethnic diversity, expert warns

<i>Editorial</i>: Devil lies in detail of new foreshore law

Queensland police conduct in Aboriginal man's death 'unacceptable'

Queensland's crime watchdog has slammed the way police handled the death in custody of Palm Island man Cameron Doomadgee.

<i>David Williams</i>: Be bold and talk about benefits of settlements

Beach pledge unhelpful, Act told

Maori Party brushes off Harawira criticism of foreshore deal

The Maori Party's often controversial MP Hone Harawira says the Prime Minister was "pandering to rednecks" over the foreshore and seabed deal.

Foreshore agreement 'means ownership'

Maori groups awarded customary title in the foreshore and seabed will be the legal owners of it and the minerals beneath it.

Foreshore plan opens door to Maori claims

The Govt will introduce a new property title that can be claimed over the foreshore and seabed.

<i>Audrey Young:</i> Foreshore compromise unlikely

National has relaxed the threshold for claiming customary title but the iwi leaders want it relaxed even further.