Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

BC chief calls for urgent effort to save indigenous languages at UN  - A First Nations chief from British Columbia is calling for urgent efforts to revive indigenous languages , saying their extinction is going unnoticed while ...

Australian Transgender Beauty Pageant Criticized For Offering Free Sex Change Surgery To Winner  - The Miss Gay and Ms Transsexual Australia 2016 beauty pageant for the gay and transgender community is offering the winner a gift voucher for free ...

The Presets Pen Heartfelt Note On Why They're Not Celebrating Australia Day  - rather, the day the British commenced settlement and, with it, the systemic abuses of Australia's indigenous population that fester away to this day ...

We need to consider a new Australian flag that reflects our maturity and independence  - Some say we should keep the Australian imperial blue ensign forever. ... the languages of Indigenous people and of migrants to Australia since1788 ...

The racism speech that made Australians sit up and take notice  - A powerful speech by a prominent Australian journalist on his country's record on indigenous rights has been viewed more than one million ...

Catherine Keenan named Australia's Local Hero 2016  - The Sydney Story Factory focuses on helping marginalised young Australians , especially those from indigenous and non-English speaking ...

The ugly side of the Australian Dream  - However, I think it's also time to acknowledge that the great Australian Dream isn't shared equally by all. The vast, deadly gulf dividing indigenous and ...

Why wait until 2020 to vote on the republic?  - Most Australians want a republic by any other name; the word has too much baggage, including Paul Keating and bananas. And Indigenous people ...

Put Fred on the fiver, because he's priceless  - In the early 1970s Fred and his colleagues embarked on a two-year journey into outback Australia to tackle the blight of trachoma in indigenous  ...

Can Australia Day be reshaped?  - But it marks the day when the colonisers of Australia began to kill, reject and exclude the Aboriginal people. Or, as Stan Grant put it when describing ...

Australia Day celebrations show disregard for Indigenous history  - On January 26, many in the Bega Valley and across the seat of Eden-Monaro will come together to celebrate what they see as a day of national pride ...

Why I'm celebrating Australia Day  - To some, Australia Day signifies the landing of the first fleet and the ... In that same year, indigenous Australians marched along Sydney streets in an ...

Sombre time for Aboriginals, Jannawi Dance Clan artistic director says  -  Australia Day may mark the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 and the founding of our nation, but for many Aboriginal Australians there is little to ...

Southern Horizon' most popular alternative to Union Jack flag design, survey finds  - The survey offered respondents a choice of six alternative Australian flag ... those who wanted a flag that recognised Australia's Indigenous heritage.

The Countries Where People Are the Most Emotionally Complex  - Think of the last piece of big news you got. How did you feel about it? Happy? Sad? Angry? Worried? Excited? Grateful? A little bit of all of the above? Experiencing multiple emotions at once may make it seem like you don’t actually know just how you feel about something—that you’re ambivalent, or indecisive,

Getting people with more skills vital to our future  -  New Zealand needs to concentrate more than ever on increasing skills in ... the skills of our people to compete and succeed in our globalised world.

Unsettled start to political year  - Already the signs are not looking particularly hopeful for a protest-free Waitangi Day after Opposition politicians, and the Maori Party, a support party of ...

Karanga optional at upcoming Te Whanganui-a-Tara kapa haka regionals  - The karanga is a traditional element of Māori protocol, now teams have the option of using it in their performances. The karanga, it's the first call to be ...

Waiōhau Marae prepare for wharekai rebuild  - The closing ceremony for the dining hall of Waiōhau Marae took place this morning as they prepare for the demolition and re-build of their wharekai.

Haka performed at LDS wedding reception viewed over 25 million times  - A traditional Maori war dance performed at the wedding reception of an LDS couple is receiving worldwide attention. The haka, filmed by Westone ...

Wedding haka moves NZ Maori bride to tears  - A haka - with its shouting, body-slapping and exaggerated facial expressions - is used in traditional Maori culture as a war cry to intimidate the enemy, ...

Maori winners in TPP: Key  -  Maori will be big winners when the TPP deal goes ahead says John Key, despite vocal opposition to rush to sign the deal over the weekend.

What will it mean to be Maori and Mormon in 2050?  - And we Maori are story tellers as well. Our ancestors communicated their world in word imagery, the esoteric, the scientific, the spiritual, the sacred, ...

You've probably never seen a wedding dance like this before  -  Maori dancers perform the traditional Haka for Britain's Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla in London in 2012. This same dance, performed by ...