Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

A desperate bid to stop illegal loggers and drug runners has forced a Brazilian tribe to contact the ...  - ISOLATED native people wearing loincloths and carrying bows and arrows have emerged from the Amazon rainforest and made contact with the outside world in a desperate attempt to seek weapons for their battle with illegal loggers and drug runners.

For a better nation, we need a new approach  - THE disparity resulting from the large proportion of indigenous Australians who are disengaged from the community and from the workforce has ...

Sotheby's protest highlights cultural grey area of depicting Indigenous dead  - It was not the first time that Sotheby's auction house in Melbourne had come under fire for selling artworks depicting dead Indigenous Australians .

Welfare recipients banned from buying alcohol and gambling under radical plan proposed by ...  - Mr Forrest, whose company Fortescue Metals has a strong history of supporting programs to empower indigenous Australians , believes Australia's  ...

Reconciliation or récupération? Indigenous soldiers in WWI  - In Australia too, the “great silence” concerning black diggers has undergone ... Australia's Aboriginals were formally excluded from military service, but ...

Doctor says Australia covering up mental illness in asylum-seeker children  - Peter Young, a doctor who previously supervised mental health services at the camps, said at a hearing held by the Australian Human Rights ...

Tamil asylum seekers: 80% reported showing signs of torture and trauma  - held at Curtin detention centre after nearly a month at sea have shown signs of having suffered mental trauma, Guardian Australia has been told.

War on Humans: Now It's " Death Coaching"  - Having traveled there to expose this ghoul -- I helped end his importation of suicide bags into Australia -- my only question is: What took the authorities ...

US Ambassador Calls for LGBT and HIV Criminalization Reform  - The U.S. Ambassador to Australia John Berry told the 20 th  International AIDS Conference that the fight against HIV/AIDS cannot be won without the decriminalization of LGBT people.

Conscious Step Aims To Give Back  - The company was founded in January 2014 in Australia by friends Hassan ... of the issues we're talking about, hunger and education and poverty .”

Novopay under Government control  - The school payroll is the biggest in New Zealand , paying about 90,000 people every fortnight, but has been beset by problems since its introduction in ...

interest in Kiwi craft beers frothing up   -  New Zealand hops are so sought after that whenever I am overseas judging beer or visiting breweries and people learn I am a Kiwi, it is inevitable that ...

Great effort from a small nation  -  New Zealand sent about 6000 men to the Boer war and of those 69 died in ... " People were quite astounded by that but he was proved to be right.".

We could see the anger in people's eyes ...'  - The very thing more than 150,000 people in 200 demonstrations across 28 centres in New Zealand spent 56 days protesting about was taking place in ...

Labour work and wages policy good for working people  - Labour's new policy on work and wages, announced today, is good for the working people of New Zealand . Maritime Union of New Zealand National ...

Australia and New Zealand make plans for Ebola despite 'very low' risk  - Almost 700 people have died in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone over the past ... And although it is unlikely to ever reach Australia – or New Zealand  ...

Call for obesity to be disability  - Obesity in New Zealand is a ticking timebomb and it should be classed as a ... in the Disabled Persons Assembly, a lobby group for disabled people .

Eco-friendly coffee capsule gives young Kiwis shot at big time  - Move over George Clooney, New Zealand's newest coffee capsule ... "We wanted to start educating people about the waste and let them know there is ...

Labour-Greens bloc dramatically closes gap on National in new Roy Morgan poll  - Support for National's coalition partners has changed little overall with the Maori Party 1.5% (up 0.5%), Act NZ (0.5%, unchanged) and United Future ...

Hui fono focuses on culture and creativity  -  Maori and Pasifika students will tackle the issue of how to integrate culture into their work at an upcoming hui fono in Northland. The students from the ...

Making sense of psychosis: Registration now open  - This is a story of partnership between a Māori traditional healer and a Pakeha psychiatrist, and will emphasise the point of view of the young person .

Over 1.6 Million People Attend Benny Hinn Event in Indonesia  - of preparation, best-selling author and internationally known evangelist Benny Hinn ministered to over 1.6 million people in Papua , New Guinea.

NZ urged to not abandon West Papuans  - A West Papuan activist says Australia and New Zealand must not abandon the indigenous people of her homeland. Visiting New Zealand, Paula ...

Indigenous Indonesian People Are Standing Up Against the Government  - In fact, the total true population of West Papua is thought to be closer to several million, when factoring in undocumented indigenous peoples .