Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

University Alters National Anthem with Indigenous Twist  - The altering of lyrics in the Australia's national anthem by the University of Sun Shine Coast for playing its own version at an official function has ...

Strength and beauty - three generations of Indigenous women in one place  - She lectures in nursing at the Australian Catholic University and has just submitted her PhD thesis on post-natal depression in Aboriginal women.

Going all green or gay is no way to run a bank  - No doubt ANZ will support the yes vote in the plebiscite on gay marriage. ... Most banks in Australia have entered the postmodern world of politics, ...

More than 12 000 people march for the annual gay parade in Sydney  - More than 12 000 people march for the annual gay parade in Sydney ... The parade comes at a time of political wrangling in Australia over LGBT rights ...

Same-sex plebiscite by year-end, says Australian minister  - A group of lifesavers rehearse their marching routine in preparation for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, on Bondi Beach in Australia , ...

Calls for a permanent Aboriginal medical service in western Sydney as another one goes under  - A second Aboriginal health service in western Sydney is on the brink of ... Western Sydney has the highest density Aboriginal population in Australia  ...

Call for national day of remembrance for Australian frontier wars  - The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is calling on the Australian War Memorial and the federal and ACT governments to formally recognise the deaths of tens ...

Woman sues as body revokes certificate of Aboriginality  - A NSW woman teaching Aboriginal culture to school-aged children after ... She argues in her submissions she is of Aboriginal descent and identifies as ... Weekend Australian that one of Australia's largest indigenous land councils ...

In Australian state, aboriginal kids 53 times more likely to be in jail than others  -  Aboriginal children in Western Australia are 53 times more likely to be jailed than other Australians , according to the Change the Record Coalition, ...

Boy in murder charge highlights the plight of Aboriginal citizens in modern day Australia  - An 11-year-old boy charged with murder has come to epitomize Australia's great shame: the plight of its Aboriginal citizens. The boy is one of the ...

Breaking the silence: Australia must acknowledge a violent past  - Judy Watson’s The names of places is a rolling scroll of sites of massacres of Aboriginal people, presented on an iPad. It is the visualisation of a collaborative research project and will soon be a fully fledged website, but not yet.

It's fabulous!': Sydney's Mardi Gras parade 2016 – photo essay  - The array of floats represented organisations and causes including ReachOut Australia , Acon Aboriginal Project, Muslims Against Homophobia and ...

Woman sues Aboriginal group for rejecting her claim to be Indigenous despite failing to prove ...  - A woman who identifies herself as an Indigenous Australian is suing a community group for saying she is not Aboriginal . Elizabeth Taylor, from Bowral ...

10 Reasons You Should Visit Australia  - Home to stunning geological marvels, seemingly endless deserts, and diverse flora and fauna, Australia is a land unlike any other.

One clinic for 1.4 million people  - Frustrated patients are slamming the length of time people have to wait to get ... "There's a wide range of people , male and female, and varying ages.

Boosting young Māori into career orbit  - The Māori Science Academy/Pūhoro has enlisted the help of NASA's Mana Va utier, who's on track to becoming an astronaut, to help inspire a cohort ...

Minhinnick battler for iwi  -  Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell says the death of Tahuna Minhinnick is a huge loss for Ngati Te Ata, Waikato Tainui and the nation.

Treaty documents still talking  - Hugh Karena, the Department of Internal Affairs' director of Maori relationships and strategy, says the first two pages of Te Tiriti are particularly ...

New Zealand vote on Union Jack flag has started  - A referendum is underway in New Zealand to decide on what should be their ... The first stage of the New Zealand flag referendum debate took place in ... links to indigenous Maori culture, and even to colonial New Zealand as part of ...

Questions raised over Trade Me ad for 'King's' Maori artifact  - Questions raised over Trade Me ad for 'King's' Maori artifact ... Authentication was required from the point artifacts left New Zealand's shores. "It's easy ...

They thought we would just go away'  - the Wesley Centre in Mount Roskill, which several representatives from NZ Police attended, including the Māori responsiveness advisor Joe Tipene, ...

Death of a radical intellectual  -  New Zealand Maori Council co-chairperson Maanu Paul said Walker's “ability to interpret the Maori and non- Maori worlds was his great skill" ...

Concern over taiaha Trade Me auction  - The Māori King Movement has concerns about a Trade Me auction which claims to be selling an authentic taiaha belonging to the second Māori King ...

BSP helping people manage money and deliver banking closer to home  - BSP is teaching and encouraging thousands of Papua New Guineans how to ... and engages financial institutions to bring the message to the people .