Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Renewed calls for action to address Indigenous disadvantage  - Progress on meeting targets remains slow - with Indigenous life expectancy still well behind non- Indigenous Australia , and Aboriginal incarceration ...

ABS schools data shows men shunning career in teaching  - The ABS schools report also reveals a record number of indigenous ... which hired 4.3 per cent more teachers, and in Western Australia , where the ...

Let's build a powerful people's movement for unity  -  Indigenous activists all over Australia have forged strong links with other groups fighting the same battle. We are not exclusive in our struggle, for it is ...

Indigenous organisations have been 'disadvantaged' by grants program  - A $4.8bn Indigenous grants program has disadvantaged Indigenous ... Indigenous affairs minister, Shayne Neumann, told Guardian Australia the ...

Packed forum discusses Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Treaty  - A treaty would have to include an acknowledgement that Australia was conquered not settled, and recognition of Aboriginal rights to self-determination ...

Tragic suicide of 10-year-old Aboriginal girl  - Earlier this month, a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl took her own life in a small Kimberly community near the town of Derby in Western Australia .

End the silences, they're toxic – pack up the myth and conspiracy of shame and taboo  - Suicide is an increasing toll for all Australians . For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders it is a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. The internalising of ...

Farm debt mediation schism between Australia and New Zealand  - Ron Mark is scathing about resistance to farm debt mediation. He said: "We have a culture here in New Zealand where people resist something until ...

Man on a mission  - So far he and his dozen staff have trained more than 500 Maori leaders and ... Growing up in a humble Maori community in the Far North, Mr Wright ...

Special treatment for Maori ? Yeah right  - Oscar Kightley ponders what "special treatment" for Maori might entail. ... rich overseas investors who are buying up all the land in New Zealand and ...

Maori go to court over proposed Kermadecs sanctuary  -  Maori go to court over proposed Kermadecs sanctuary ... Islands will soon be home to an ocean sanctuary twice the size of New Zealand's land mass.

Māori language teacher Alice Patrick  - This week, we speak with Alice Patrick – a Pākehā teacher of Māori . ... When she moved to New Zealand , Alice was the only child left at home with ...

Youthful population more at risk of prison time  - Waikato University researchers say the youthfulness of the Maori population is an important factor in the high proportion of the Maori in the prison ...

Enga's Development challenges still remain, education priority questioned  - Though IPATAS commands respect from his fellow MPs and the ordinary Papua New Guineans for being education maniac, the challenges in other ...

Noken voting system contradicts principles of democracy, says lawmaker  - Kareth further explained that although voters in Papua , specifically people in Pegunungan Tengah, understood the principles of direct, public and free ...