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Aya Al-Chalabi: 'Ramadan is a re-set'
A New Zealand-Arab influencer has been showcasing Muslim faith and culture to a new audience this Ramadan.
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Abba Rose Vaiaoga-Ioasa: 'Our culture affects everything in every way'
13 Feb 2024How does a chemical engineer make a film? Take equal parts curiosity, creativity, culture, complex subject matter and add a generous measure of comedy. Shake it…
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Wairoa's Mātangirau sings loudly for Day Two of Te Matatini
23 Feb 2023The second day of Te Matatini brought another 15 groups, including Wairoa's kapa Mātangirau - who journeyed through mud, break-downs and broken roads.
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Bill making it easier to change sex on birth certificate closer to law
12 Aug 2021Under the bill, people would no longer have to go through the Family Court or show evidence of medical treatment to change the sex on their birth certificate.
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Breaking the homogeneity of 'Asian': Report on inequities among students
Voices - A new report on Asian students' health and wellbeing finds explores their experiences of lack of safe spaces, "achievement pressure", poverty, mental health, and discrimination. Audio
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'We see a process of decolonisation in New Zealand' - Behrouz Boochani
17 May 2021Voices - The Auckland Writers Festival theatre was packed out with people wanting to hear the award-winning Kurdish-Iranian writer's story and views. Audio
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'You don’t have to compromise your identity to follow what you want'
10 May 2021Voices - Athletes observing Ramadan - the month of fasting in Islam - talk about how they balance their faith and sport. Audio
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NZ's Fijian-Indians want to be recognised as Pasifika, not Asians
Fijian-Indians living in New Zealand are opposing moves by the government to classify them as Asians and not Pacific Islanders.
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Young queer and trans people face growing housing barriers in level 3
26 Aug 2020Increasing numbers of queer and trans young people are unable to access emergency accommodation during Auckland's level 3 lockdown, RainbowYOUTH says.
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'I wish that society would be accepting'
The Detail - The man who helped write guidelines on transgender players in women's rugby says he hates that his work has created a platform for people to attack transgender people as cheats.
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Walking between two worlds
18 Feb 2020The Detail - Children of immigrants, in their efforts to fit in, often end up turning their backs on the culture of their parents. For Julie Zhu, learning te reo Māori helped change that.
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Singh vs Smith: Most common surname in New Zealand revealed
27 Dec 2019Ask someone what the most common surname in New Zealand is and invariably the answer is Smith.
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How different communities around the country celebrate on Christmas Day
25 Dec 2019For Christmas Day 2019, Karoline Tuckey takes a look at how some of our communities of belief will be celebrating today, and during the holiday season.
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Nepalese women reach for the sky
21 Oct 2019Voices: Nepalese women are working hard in their communities in New Zealand as well as changing village societies for the better back in Nepal - and their efforts are being noticed. Audio
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Severe inequities in trans and non-binary health: 'It's not getting any better'
23 Sep 2019Gender diverse people are rarely counted in national statistics - the first comprehensive study on the health of trans and non-binary NZers is a chance to fill the gaps. Digital journalist Murphy repo…
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'More than two divisions to account for gender diversity'
17 Jul 2019The rules which allow trans women to compete in elite women's sporting divisions need to change because trans women have a physiological advantage, University of Otago researchers say.
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Transgender and gender diverse support services get funding boost
16 Jul 2019Transgender and gender diverse people in the Northland and Auckland regions will soon be able to access DHB funded peer-support services provided by two of the country's longest running rainbow…
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Opinion: Close-knit community Ravelry unravels racism
3 Jul 2019Fibre-craft social media platform Ravelry last week banned pro-Trump discussion in a move much celebrated by the community, knitter and blogger Tash Barneveld writes.
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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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