Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Australia , Canada and other economies are entering the billion-dollar medical cannabis industry  - A worker harvest buds of marijuana in a medicinal cannabis farm, approved for medical use and under the supervision of the government's agricultural ...

Proportion of young people under supervision in NT highest in nation  - Indigenous youth were over-represented in the number of children on ... Principal legal officer at the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency ...

ABC failing to reflect racial diversity of modern Australia  - ABC failing to reflect racial diversity of modern Australia , says Mark Scott ... At 30 June 2015, 2.28% of ABC staff were Indigenous , exceeding the 2% ...

After years of hosting a notorious refugee camp for Australia , Papua New Guinea says, Enough  - The saga of Australia's controversial offshore refugee detention centers ... Five suicide attempts were reported in the past few days, and two women ...

Reaganomics is Literally Making Americans Kill Themselves  - Thirteen out of every 100,000 people now kill themselves, making suicide one of ... a strong connection between right-wing economic policies and suicide . ... Another study, this time out of Australia , discovered a similar pattern in that ...

Thousands of overseas students in extreme financial hardship in Australia : expert  - For thousands of international students living in Australia , extreme financial hardship leaves them struggling to afford a decent meal, the expert says.

A Stronger Identity, And A Personal Tribute To The Late, Great Tiga Bayles - I was a shy 14 year-old Noongar girl who was ashamed of who I was when I got the opportunity to do a school-based traineeship at Triple A Training.

Gay couple win custody battle against Thai surrogate mother  - A same-sex couple have won a legal battle in Thailand against the ... Thai surrogate mother even as his parents took his twin sister back to Australia .

How Australia should recognise its Aboriginal people in the Constitution  - There has been a lot of discussion over the years about the lack of recognition in the body of the Australian Constitution, but a survey of hundreds of ...

Cultural awareness promotes better relationships between Indigenous Australians and police  - It's important that police understand cultural protocols and cultural traditions that [ Indigenous Australians ] still carry and have carried for thousands of ...

Who are Australia's feminist TV heroes? - Lui, who won an Australia Council Dreaming award and the Belvoir's Balnaves Indigenous Playwright Award in 2012, is a powerful advocate for the ...

Indigenous constitutional recognition: One woman's expletive-laden call for a treaty  - None of them support constitutional recognition for Indigenous people, despite Australia looking to hold a referendum on the issue next year. Nayuka ...

Australia's indigenous ask for compensation for lost wages  - Until a generation ago, cattle farmers in Australia were allowed to withhold wages from their aboriginal workers, who were seen to be incapable of ...

The push for a treaty with Indigenous Australians and why some don't want recognition in the ...  - Today the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples released the results of ... It reveals 47 per cent back recognising Aboriginal Australians in the ...

Australian guards accused of beating New Zealand detainees  - The New Zealanders defended themselves, they broke up wheelie-bins, the iron bars and wheels from the wheelie-bins to protect themselves, as well ...

Fattism at work should be illegal, UK judge says  -  Do you think people are discriminated against at work based on their size? ... Pause has in the past called on New Zealand to be the first country to ...

Date turns into vicious gay attack  - Ritchie told Maori Television's Te Kaea news that the victim was distraught and in shock. Further alerts were issued by police and New Zealand ...

NZ Maori ready to make impact  - New Zealand Maori host Tonga in the opening round of the Pacific Nations Cup at North Harbour Stadium, effectively an opportunity for the players ...

Returning Maori adzes to Ngai Tahu the "right thing to do"  - She mentioned in the conversation that she had four Maori adzes, two of which were greenstone, which had been in her family since the 1920s.

Water rights back to Waitangi Tribunal  - When considering the Māori Council's claim three years ago, the tribunal ... New Zealand Māori Council solicitor Donna Hall welcomed the decision.

Amway China to boost New Zealand's tourism fortunes with 2018 event  -  NEW Zealand has bagged hosting rights to Amway China's 2018 ... In Maori , we use manaakitanga to express our concept of hosting: we view our ...

Maori incarceration rates are an issue for us all  - Fifty per cent of the prison population is Maori . It's a fact regularly cited in official documents, and from time to time it garners attention in the media.

Australian Refugee Detention Center Is Declared Illegal By Papua New Guinea Court  -  Thousands of people in Melbourne, Australia, took to the streets on March ... The justices said Tuesday that the detention center runs afoul of Papua  ...

Australia and NZ Police Commissioners speak out on family violence  - Today, NZ Police Commissioner Mike Bush and Police Commissioners from across Australia launched a joint Leadership Statement and Policing ...