Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Why Steve Clisby believes being over 60 is your time to shine  - Three years after stealing Australia's heart on The Voice, 70-year- old Steve Clisby is back with a moving new song and a message for older people ...

The right republic, not any republic  - Ahead of Australia Day this year, all but one of the nation's state Premiers and chief ministers mounted a new push for an Australian republic. As Labor ...

New Australian of the Year calls for gay marriage vote  - David Morrison has hit the ground running as Australian of the Year, fielding questions on marriage equality, an Australian republic and gender ...

Universitas Indonesia LGBT support group members say they're being persecuted following gov't ban  - He cited information shared by Australia with Indonesia on the flow of funds, in addition to a communication hotline with Singapore as examples of ...

Read This If You Want To Know Why Australia Day Is So Offensive To ...  - If you apply the same logic to non- Aboriginal Australia , then we should stop commemorating Anzac Day. 'It's time to move on. The wars were years ...

Treaty over a republic: Indigenous social justice campaigner  - SOS Blak Australia is an Indigenous organisation that works to ensure Aboriginal communities are not closed down and other social justice issues ...

Protesters condemn Australia Day 'invasion' and reject recognition campaign  -  Protesters condemn Australia Day 'invasion' and reject recognition ... Mr Thorpe says Australia has a shameful history of Aboriginal genocide and ...

New Australian flag backed by 64% in university survey on alternative designs  - Thousands of Australians have backed changing the national flag, with a ... star and incorporates the colours of the Aboriginal flag, came in second.

Forgotten verses of Advance Australia Fair we'd be embarrassed to sing today  - Despite this, Advance Australia Fair is one of our most beloved tunes. But the song we ... Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, of course.

No Australian should feel like a stranger in their own country  -  Australia Day is a good day for immigrants, the descendants of immigrants and Indigenous ... In those moments, I feel for Aboriginal people. Last year I ...

Maybe we should try some respect'  -  Aboriginal Australians were here first. They watched the ships arrive in Botany Bay. Many died of smallpox all around Sydney Harbour soon after the ...

Shane Howard sees irony in Australia Day honour for song on Indigenous genocide  - How can I not be interested in the settlement of Australia and the complications for Aboriginal people, when it's your birthday?” he said. “This award is ...

Are we a racist nation?  - It is raised in moments such as Pauline Hanson's claim, referring to the Aboriginal flag, that Australia should have "one flag", when our nation had a ...

Thousands rally for Aboriginal rights, denounce Australia Day in Melbourne  - Thousands rallied in Melbourne on Tuesday, commemorating the suffering the Aboriginal people experienced after the 1788 First Fleet landing on ...

It is beyond time for Britain to apologise to Australia's Indigenous people  - Meanwhile in 1995 Queen Elizabeth apologised to New Zealand's biggest Maori tribe for Britain's devastation of its lands. It is beyond time for Britain ...

Step Up Taranaki and dance to the beat of Poi E  - The project was designed to be a showpiece to the rest of New Zealand , ... we'll load the movement onto the web or Facebook so people can learn it ...

Maori economy in 'strong' position  - Mr Barry said the tribe had traditional investments along with commercial ones such as Hamilton's The Base - New Zealand's largest shopping centre.

Māori veteran's pension cut off  - Eighty-nine-year-old Māori war veteran Selwyn Clarke has been begging for money at Kaitaia markets after his pension was cut just before Christmas.

More entries needed for respiratory disease sufferers' awards  -  Respiratory disease is particularly common among Māori and other Polynesians and is New Zealand's third most common cause of death. One in six ...

Māori veteran: 'They need to get it right'  - An 88-year-old Māori veteran is refusing to face up to court on trespass ... Work and Income New Zealand's policy for any beneficiary with a pending ...

Maori war veteran's pension cut is WINZ 'weaponised'  -  Maori war veteran's pension cut is WINZ 'weaponised' video .... Clarke was 15 when he first left New Zealand to serve in the 28th Maori Battalion, ...

Cultural Traditions: The Māori Haka  - The haka is an ancient war dance of the Māori people of New Zealand. The haka is meant to symbolize a tribe's unity and pride. Though originally ...

Not one more acre of confiscations  - The Green Party launched a petition at Rātana today in support of its Members' Bill to stop the compulsory acquisition of whenua Māori under the ...

Council frustrated at water secrecy  - The Northland Regional Council wants to know the Government will deal with Maori rights and interests in its reform of freshwater management.