Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Aboriginal custody hotline expanded in bid to prevent further deaths  - Western Australia has the nation's highest level of Indigenous over-representation in the justice system, and the Government has pledged to beef up ...

Bobbi-lee Hille's photos of Aboriginal newborns and pregnant women  -  Australian photographer Bobbi-lee Hille, 29, has paid homage to her Indigenous culture with stunning images of babies, with traditional Indigenous  ...

At the Harvard Art Museums, Indigenous Australian Art and Thought on Display  -  Australian anthropologist William Stanner coined the term “everywhen” in the 1960s as a way to translate the Aboriginal experience of past and future ...

Alan Jones isn't racist, he wants Aboriginal kids to be safe  - The fear of being labelled racist has driven too many of us to remain silent about abuse in Aboriginal Australia . That silence has condemned too many ...

Australia's prison population boom  - Rising heroin use from the 1970s led to a situation where Australia had some ... Jobs could be the key to reducing the incarceration rate for Aboriginal  ...

Australia's “Closing the Gap” fraud: Indigenous conditions worsen  - Delivering the Australian government's annual “Closing the Gap” report on indigenous disadvantage to parliament last week, Prime Minister Malcolm ...

The best shopping options in and out of Adelaide city  - Kangaroo Island is South Australia's legendary food-producing island and Island ... Though you can find indigenous art and gifts at Tandanya National ...

Myths of indigenous child removal don't help Aboriginal kids  - In an article for The Guardian Australia last week, Larissa Behrendt said: “That the number of indigenous children removed from their families is now ...

Tamariki Māori use culture to cope with Earthquakes  - A Christchurch counsellor says Māori children are using their own culture to cope with the effects of the 2011 earthquake, and more recently the 5.7 ...

NZ's first female photographer's rare Maori pictures auctioned in UK  - NZ's first female photographer's rare Maori pictures auctioned in UK. share ... Rare photos of 19th century Maori will be auctioned in England with their ...

In Plain Language: Tuesday with Maori  - New Zealand was one of the first places settled by the Maori tribes, the indigenous people of New Zealand, the first inhabitants who arrived by canoe ...

Community Workers not suprised Māori are still worse off  - West Auckland community workers are not surprised by the Salvation Army's latest report, saying that Māori are still worse off. The report says that ...

Mystery surrounds school carvings  - Sadly the story of the four wooden "guardians" at the Maori school on State Highway 1 just south of Taupo has long since been lost. Principal Maria ...

No more poi for boys? Tamihere threatens legal action after kapa haka rules changed  - John Tamihere, a lawyer by trade and former Labour MP and cabinet minister, has a son at Hato Pāora Māori boy's boarding college in Feilding, and ...

Maori Party supporting state house sell off  - The Maori Party is backing legislation allowing the sale of state housing stock because it says it's what iwi want. The Social Housing Reform ...

Dental students to get cultural experience at Tui Ora  - Dental students will gain first hand experience of kaupapa Maori after the signing of an agreement formalising the relationship between Otago ...