Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Is it 'ludicrous' to ban climbers from Uluru?  - While thousands of tourists disregard the sign and scale the World Heritage-listed rock every year, their numbers are dwindling. Under a plan announced in 2010, once fewer than 20% of visitors venture up the steep path, which has claimed at least 35 lives since the 1950s, climbing will be officially banned.

Video Games Help Old People Deal With Depression  - It's a known fact that exercise can help people manage depression, but a recent has added a caveat: if that exercise is combined with 'play', the effects ...

Why You Should Be Wary Of Suicide Prevention Apps  - Smartphone apps designed to assist with suicide prevention may not ... Australia and colleagues downloaded 123 apps referring to suicide and ...

What are the top 20 causes of death in Australia ?  - Coronary heart disease is killing more Australians than any other disease, according to a report released by the Australian Institute of Health and ...

Teachers evacuated as school locked down  - Teachers at the Aurukun campus of the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy, which is chaired by Noel Pearson, held a meeting last night citing ...

Worlds oldest axe was made in Australia  - The ANU professor said aboriginal people would have developed the hunting and building tools after they arrived in Australia . "We know that they ...

Archaeologists find proof that indigenous Australians made 'first' axe  - Without any pre-dated evidence to the contrary, the Stone Age find effectively means indigenous Australians were the first race to invent and use the ...

We must embrace Indigenous issues in the 2016 federal election  - Such apathy has festered in Australia for more than two centuries, and it ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people face a deficit of economic ...

Past, present and future  - Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia ,” a compelling exhibition on display at the Harvard Art Museums through September ...

Stone axe found in the Kimberley rewrites evolution of stone tools  - Research published today has found it was crafted by the first Australians 49,000 ... it the oldest-known axe in history and places Aboriginal people as the tool's ... years old and that is about the same time as humans reach Australia .

Create a new direction for housing in Australia  -  Australia , and the Hunter, is in the midst of a housing crisis. ... mixed income communities will prevent the concentration of poverty and disadvantage.

Plan to remove ' gay panic defence' welcomed but greater urgency called for  - The mother of a man whose killers relied on Queensland's so-called “ gay panic defence” has welcomed moves to amend the law but says it won't ...

Creators of 'Gayby Baby' launch Australia's first diverse families resource for schools   - First of its kind in Australia , the School Action Toolkit, which is free for download, covers different family types, such as same-sex parented families, ...

LGBT activist drops complaint against Australian bishops over marriage booklet  - A Tasmanian LGBT activist and Green Party candidate has withdrawn his discrimination ...

Media rhetoric 'reinforces racist attitudes'  - He has studied the way media portrays Māori his whole career, and says not much ... " Māori are essentially separated out from other New Zealanders .

Forres museum Maori skull returns home  - On Monday two representatives from the Museum of New Zealand will give a talk on the importance of having ancestral remains returned to their ...

Search on for school trustees  - Ms Parata says the percentage of Maori serving on boards is too low, and Maori need to stand, vote, and support the schools their tamariki go to.

Spanish helmet just lost trinket  -  Spanish helmet just lost trinket. A leading expert on Maori pre-European history says there's no evidence to back up a suggestion recently added to ...

MyHeritage Launches Global Pro Bono Initiative to Document the Family Histories of Remote Tribes  - MyHeritage has completed its first two Tribal Quest expeditions to Namibia and Papua New Guinea, meeting elders and families of the Himba people  ...

They need our help Will we let West Papuans lose everything?  - The families met by the delegation are Dani people who support the West Papua National Committee (KNPB). They related an incident which ...

Indonesia has failed to change Papuans ' stance  - Reverend Socratez Yoman says abuses against West Papuans by ... left the Papua region's indigenous people marginalised demographically, ...

Talks underway for PNG internet filtering policy  - the internet is a big problem for a young and developing country like Papua New Guinea. ... With technology rapidly evolving and bringing the access of internet to the fingertips of people via personal mobile phones devices, there ...

Gay cyclist applauded as he hits back at preacher ranting about LGBT community  - A Glasgow street preacher talking about the LGBT community got more than he bargained for when a man cycling by confronted him, saying: "I'm gay, ...

International surge on West Papua amid mass demos  - Last week's demonstrations in cities across Papua region and other ... Jeremy Corbyn described West Papuans as " people who did not enjoy their ...