Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

The Indigenous Protectors of the World's Most Sacred Places  -  Around the planet, indigenous communities still guard their sacred places. ... At Kakadu in Australia , Aboriginal leaders stopped uranium mining and ...

Reconciling child welfare with culture and identity  - At the start of this century, 4000 Indigenous children, or 2 per cent of the total Indigenous child population, were in care across Australia ; today there ...

Alarming spike in indigenous prison rates  - The figures, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, logged a spike in the rate at which the ACT jails indigenous offenders which exceeded any ...

Older people subject to 'abuse, violence and manipulation'  - President of the Australian Human Rights Commission Gillian Triggs says older Australians are increasingly vulnerable to abuse.

Koorie Youth Summit discusses big ideas for young people  - NEARLY 200 young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Victorians gathered at the Koorie Youth Summit for two days this week to connect, discuss ...

Seven things you didn't know about Malaria  - In high-burden settings, malaria can trap families and communities in a downward spiral of poverty , disproportionately affecting people who cannot ...

Indigenous Aussies and women played critical roles in wars, only to face  -    The Australian War Memorial explains, “In Northern Australia Aboriginal and Islander women worked hard to support isolated RAAF outposts and ...

Stop polluting the oceans, says indigenous Australian art in Monaco  - The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco is currently home to a major exhibition by artists from across Australia aimed at raising awareness about the ...

Schoolkids honour fallen Aboriginal light horsemen with eight-day Anzac ride to Alice Springs  -  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have fought on Australia's front line for more than 100 years. According to the Australian War Memorial, ...

Older staff to face technical challenges  -  Older members of the Australian Public Service (APS) have been put on ... He said that recent visitor to Australia , Swiss architect and engineer Chris ...

Getting older ? Why less is more when it comes to alcohol  - But our image of older people is outdated. ... and author of a new fact sheet, Alcohol and Older Australians from the Government of Western Australia  ...

Gay Rights Activist Hacked To Death In Bangladesh  - Suspected Islamist militants hacked to death a leading gay rights activist and a friend in an apartment in the Bangladeshi capital on ...

Aust Govt says returned Nauru children have a mental illness  - Nearly half of the children who were sent back to Australia after being held in a detention centre in Nauru have a mental illness, Australia's Senate has ...

Anzac Day: We've Already Said Thanks, It's Time To Move On  - They're views that have been expressed to Aboriginal people by Australian political leaders and shock jocks on issues like the celebration of January ...

Why April 25 is so important for New Zealand and Australia  - Marking 101 years since the arrival of the Australian and New Zealand ... Thousands of people attended dawn services in Wellington and Auckland ...

Haka Wedding Dance Is Mesmerizing Display Of Groom's Culture  - The groom performed a spine-tingling haka, a traditional war dance from the New Zealand indigenous people, the Māori , with 30 others at the ...

Case made for fishing benefits  - Urban Maori advocates have wrapped up their case for a greater say in a trust that was supposed to deliver benefits from the Maori fisheries ...

Te Arawa iwi invests in kids' science  - ten schools as well as offering through professional development for teachers to learn about the matauranga Maori that sits alongside the science.

Labour taiaha aimed at policies not persons  - Tamaki Makaurau MP Peeni Henare is rejecting a charge Labour's Maori MPs have become the brown taiaha used by Labour to patu the Maori Party.

Hopes high after judicial review  - Urban Maori advocates hope a judicial review in Wellington this week will finally free up funds from the fisheries settlement intended to benefit Maori  ...

Good data helps indigenous health picture  - Bridget Robson, the associate dean Maori at the University of Otago, Wellington, provided a New Zealand perspective to the study by Australia's ...

Wairau Bar archaeologist Richard Walter on the first major settlement in New Zealand  - The origin of the East Polynesian settlers of New Zealand has been known for decades on the basis of linguistic evidence. Maori language is a member of the Tahitic sub-branch of the Polynesian language family; along with Cook ...

Calls for national day commemorating NZ Land Wars continue  - A new public holiday to mark the New Zealand Wars has been a popular topic among Māori over the last year. Awanuiarangi Black believes iwi ...