Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

40 years after bloody protest, gay rights pioneers get the apology they deserve  - Nearly four decades later, the government of the Australian state of New South Wales apologised to gay rights activists involved in the violent 1978 ...

Indigenous Australians and Canadians 'destroyed by same colonialism'  -  Aboriginal disadvantage in Canada mirrors that of Indigenous people in Australia because both are survivors of colonialism, a leading Canadian ...

Josh Muir's Latest Work Tells Important Story In Indigenous Australian History  -  ndigenous artist Josh Muir's latest work will see escaped convict William ... was similar to William Buckley,” Muir told The Huffington Post Australia .

Colonialism: Australia & Canada Reflect Each Other's Image  - Canadian Aboriginal Legal Services head Jonathan Rudin claimed that Canada has faced similar difficulties as Australia when children were placed ...

Young indigenous artists make their marks, from Melbourne's White Night to the Territory  - What is considered Aboriginal art has dramatically changed in the last few decades,” Scholes says. “We now have artists working across Australia in ...

It's the same story': How Australia and Canada are twinning on bad outcomes for Indigenous people  -  Aboriginal disadvantage in Canada mirrors that of Indigenous people in Australia because both are survivors of colonialism, a leading Canadian ...

The time has come to lay Mungo Man to rest  -  Australia , meanwhile, is content to let the potentially far more significant ... our understanding of the time-depth and complexity of Aboriginal culture," ...

HRW 'disillusioned' by the state of human rights in Australia  - The critic comes regarding the treatment of migrants and asylum seekers, discrimination faced by indigenous Australians and gay and lesbian people ...

Aboriginal genes unchanged  - Scientists have confirmed the deep roots of the Aboriginal race, suggesting Australia's original inhabitants remained genetically pure for 50,000 years.

Aboriginal Australian Sequencing Study Points to 55K Years of Genetic History  - A sequencing study of Y chromosomes from Aboriginal Australians suggests that today's indigenous people are ...

Australian 'blackface' makeup tutorial goes viral  - "Despite the massive outcry from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, it seemed to us that the majority of Australians responded with ...

Indonesia's Defence Minister threatens 'warfare' against 'threatening' gay community  - Ministers and religious leaders have denounced homosexuality, blocked lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) websites and emboldened ...

The language problem  - In many other languages, nouns are divided into more genders. Some Australian Aboriginal languages have as many as sixteen genders, among ...

Australian Population Shifting to New Zealand ?  - Statistics New Zealand has found out in its report that the number of people shifting from Australia to New Zealand has been increasing continuously.

The best of New Zealand's North Island  - In the city: Auckland has the largest numbers of New Zealand's indigenous people , mostly living in the southern suburbs. But it also has a great place ...

Maori , Pacific people sought for MD Prev study on muscle disorders  - More Maori and Pacific people are being sought for a world-first study on genetic muscle disorders. Just 11 Pacific and 31 Maori respondents have ...

Kiwi director talks 'nostalgic' new film Mahana  - It has been more than 20 years since Lee Tamahori put Maori cinema on the world stage with 1994's Once Were Warriors. After Warriors, went to ...

Fall in Commodity Prices Rings Alarm Bells in Papua New Guinea  - Resource-rich Papua New Guinea (PNG) is seen as an economic ... Forty per cent of the country's 7.3 million people live below the poverty line, 12 per ...

Indonesia environment ministry detects 370 plus forest 'hotspots' in West Papua  - The ministry sent a team to Papua in January and found local people burning old grass in order to prepare the ground to grow fresh grass for cattle.

Gisborne lung cancer death rate the highest in NZ.  - Colorectal cancer is less common among younger people and Maori , therefore our younger population , lower life expectancy and high Maori  ...

Aus immigration change token gesture  - That weill still leave many kiwis, includign a large number of Maori , in a prevarious position. Mr Little says New Zealanders across the Tasman are ...

Fisheries advocacy voiced needed  - The chair of Te Ohu Kaimoana says there is a continuing role strong central body is needed to defend the gains of the Maori fisheries settlement.

Northland PHO leads the pack in offering help for smokers  - In Northland, this is one of the major objectives for the DHB, PHO and Maori health provider alliance. The Smokefree 2025 is an objective for the ...

New Zealand: Maori elder issues TPP 'veto'  - Kingi Taurua, a prominent elder of the Nga Puhi, an iwi (naiton) of New Zealand's Maori people at Te Tii Marae, Waitangi, North Island, has sent a ...