Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Efforts to Stop Forced Marriages!  - In most cases, brides are under 18-years- old who have to marry strangers who are much older than them. In February 2013, the federal government ...

Richard Bell inspired by Biennale of Sydney  - It was Australia Day, 1972, and Prime Minister William McMahon had just told indigenous people that his government would never consider the ...

Federal Government accused of bias after failing to meet with elected Indigenous body  - The Prime Minister's failure to book in a face-to-face meeting with the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has prompted the Greens to ...

First Dates makes TV history with first same-sex couple on a reality dating show  - Seven's reality dating show First Dates will make Australian television history this week when it pairs together a same-sex couple for the first time.

Google Refuses to Remove ' Gay Music Video'  - The video, which reflects the life of gay communities in Kenya, was released by Art Attack on Youtube on 15 February 2016. It is a remake of “Same ...

No child shall live in unemployed poverty without generous super  - Fighting a July double dissolution election in 1987, Bob Hawke grandiosely pledged: "By 1990 no Australian child will be living in poverty ". Facing a ...

Pictures tell a story of mental illness  - What does mental illness look like? Last year, national mental health charity SANE Australia decided to find out. It asked 5000 people –70 per cent of ...

Age- old solution to capitalising on digital opportunities  - With Australia's digital economy tipped to grow from $79 billion in 2014 to $139bn by 2020, demand for ICT workers is expected to significantly outstrip ...

Shaun Harris: “They all say that she was faking it. How could she fake dying over three days?”  - Shaun walked in and out of my life that morning, as the issues of Indigenous Australians often do. I was overcome by the story he'd told, but it would ...

National Museum of Australia sparks debate on British Museum's collection of Aboriginal artefacts  - Should rare Australian Aboriginal artefacts held by the British Museum, and now exhibited in Canberra temporarily, be returned to their place of origin ...

It's time to shut those 'hellholes'  - Speaking about the rampant sexual abuse in indigenous communities ... Mr Brough said there were some communities in Australia with populations ...

Grants to enhance heritage places  - I strongly encourage community organisations involved in the conservation, promotion, and awareness raising of places on Australia's National  ...

Facebook nudity policy criticised over picture of Aboriginal women  - Facebook is once again embroiled in a scandal over the depiction of women's breasts on the social network, this time in Australia . The company has ...

No deadline set for vote on First People recognition  - The view from government and others is that they are saying they want to know what Aboriginal people reckon. And thinking Australians have said, ...

Changes to SA heritage laws give traditional owners 'less say'  - Proposed changes to the South Australian Aboriginal Heritage Act will have major implications on traditional owners and protection of sacred sites, ...

Negative stigma attached to Alternative Education  - According to The Education Review Office, 63% of all Alt Ed students in 2010 were Māori and many struggled with learning difficulties or mental health ...

Bridging the gap  - If you're heading to Australia to start a new life make sure you have an exit strategy. More and more Kiwis are finding life across The Ditch to be harder ...

Maori language a treasure for all  - The chief executive of Te Mangai Paho, John Bishara, is looking forward to working more closely with iwi and Maori language groups once the new Te ...

Respiratory illness on a rise  - Statistics uncover some-more Northlanders are going to sanatorium for respiratory issues and some-more than half were Maori . Respiratory illness ...

Deportees' chickens coming home to roost  - Why disproportionate numbers of our prisoners are Maori we do not know, but it is simply muddying the waters to claim that it is because of 'systemic ...

How Kiwi Are You” Poll Being Called Racist  - I was left thinking, what's special about having our land stolen from us, higher Māori incarceration rate, worst health outcomes, lower educational ...

Māori students lose study support to whitestreaming  - A report reveals that every university in New Zealand, most polytechnics and even one wānanga have cut jobs that support Māori students.

Reoffending gap needs extra effort  - John Key is rejecting the need for a Waitangi Tribunal investigation into the rates of Maori imprisonment and reoffending, because he says the ...

School significant win for Kiwa  -  Maori -owned technology company Kiwa Digital has made a critical sale of its voice synchronization software to the US market through a leading film ...