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1 week ago | 
nit.com.au | Joseph Guenzler |Andrew Mathieson |Callan Morse
Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge expects troubled forward Jamarra Ugle Hagan to "blend in" full-time to the program again after making commitments around his return to the club this week with "some basic objectives" while declaring a playing comeback was still not certain.
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1 week ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan |Andrew Mathieson |Callan Morse
Less than half of working age women are employed across the Pacific Islands due to outdated laws, the World Bank says in a new report which urges closing the gender gap to boost economic growth. The World Bank economic update for the Pacific also forecast regional growth slowing to 2.6 per cent in 2025, down from 5.5 per cent in 2023.
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2 weeks ago | 
nit.com.au | Callan Morse |Joseph Guenzler |Jackson Clark
Kysaiah Pickett is a "Demon for life" after signing a mammoth deal to remain at the club until the end of 2034, reportedly worth approximately $12 million dollars. Pickett, 24, who was already locked in at the club until the end of 2027, has inked a seven year extension to his previous deal. It makes Kozzy the longest-contracted player in the competition. The deal is reportedly worth around $1.4 million per year.
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3 weeks ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan |Joseph Guenzler |David Prestipino |Callan Morse
New Zealand's parliament has voted to enact record suspensions for three Māori MPs who performed a haka to protest a controversial bill. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, 22, received a seven-day ban and her colleagues from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, are barred for 21 days.
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3 weeks ago | 
nit.com.au | Joseph Guenzler |David Prestipino |Callan Morse
Indigenous leaders in education have been recognised ahead of the National NAIDOC Awards in Boorloo/Perth next month. The National NAIDOC Committee have announced Mabo Centre director Professor Eddie Cubillo, Edith Cowan University Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students, Equity and Indigenous) Braden Hill, and digital education platform Jajoo Warrngara – The Culture Classroom's education team as finalists.
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3 weeks ago | 
nit.com.au | Callan Morse |Dechlan Brennan |Giovanni Torre
On an ordinary day, arriving home from school, a 15-year-old Gail Mabo was told by her father "one day, everyone will know my name". Naarm gathered on Tuesday night to celebrate Torres Strait culture and the legacy of Eddie Mabo. Mr Mabo passed six months before the High Court of Australia's landmark determination overturning terra nullius in 1992, recognising the Meriam people's rights to their land after a 15-year fight, and setting the foundations for the Native Title Act.
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3 weeks ago | 
nit.com.au | Callan Morse |Brendan Foster |Dechlan Brennan
A new guide for doctors offices around Australia reinforces the case that culturally safe and clinically sound health care is a must in order to achieve the best health and wellbeing outcomes for Indigenous people. Leading into Reconciliation Week, the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Health Practitioners in Primary Health Care – Guide for General Practice was launched.
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1 month ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan |Giovanni Torre |Callan Morse
Stolen Generations survivor support organisations have responded to the WA government's redress scheme announcement, calling it a "powerful moment of truth-telling", while noting that nothing can undo what has been done. At the Reconciliation Week Breakfast in Boorloo (Perth) on Tuesday, WA Premier Roger Cook announced a fund allowing for $85,000 per person, for living Stolen Generations survivors removed from their families before July 1st, 1972.
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1 month ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan |Callan Morse |Giovanni Torre
WAFL great Stephen Michael's career in football speaks for itself, so much so the Noongar man is the 2025 Sir Doug Nicholls Round honouree. Across 243 games for South Fremantle, Michael collected two Sandover Medals, five best and fairests and a flag alongside 17 appearances for his state, ending with a Simpson Medal as State of Origin's best player in 1983 - the same he was named captain of the All Australian side, without ever crossing to Victoria.
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1 month ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan |Callan Morse
The World Health Organisation says circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 has been detected in stool specimens of two healthy children in Papua New Guinea on May 9. The detection of wild poliovirus or vaccine-derived poliovirus, including from samples taken from healthy children, is considered a serious public health event, the WHO said in a statement. It added that the detection of circulating type 2 poliovirus was classified as a "polio outbreak".
