Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Glowing review of Indigenous protected areas leaves sector proud but perplexed  - It found that between the 2009 and 2015 financial years, an investment of $35.2m from government and third parties generated $96.5m worth of social, economic, cultural and environmental outcomes, and that 28 of 35 program outcomes directly aligned with government strategic priorities.

Every child in Australia will secure swimming lessons at primary school under a Labor government ...  - Despite the tragic deaths of more than 50 children by drowning in Australia every year, there is no national approach to swimming or water safety ...

Amazing look at our early settlers' lives  - FIRST Irish settlers in South Australia were predominantly Catholic and most lived in poverty , early findings of an Australia -first project reveals.

The World's Oldest Performing Drag Queen Showed Us His Closet  - Michelle DuBarry (also known as Russell Alldread) is an icon and activist in Toronto's gay village and needs no title, though he has many, including ...

Lessons From Ireland: What Australia Should Know About Voting On Marriage Equality  - As Australia faces its own nationwide vote on same-sex marriage, many LGBT people and their families are wondering what such a campaign might ...

Catholic Bishops speak out against marriage equality  - The Age has broken the news that the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) will release a statement warning Australia's political leaders ...

Ian Wilkes says his blood meant performing with Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company was his destiny -  “It was a beautiful play about the coming together of two races through Noongar dance and ballet.” The 26-year-old has since toured in children's ...

Increasing the number of Indigenous educators Increasing the number of Indigenous educators  - An initiative to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) teachers in Australian schools should have its funding extended for ...

Aboriginal Hostels staff reject divisive pay offer by 95%  - AHL provides accommodation, three meals a day and support services across a national network of around 47 hostels for Indigenous Australians who ...

65 Organizations Defunded in the Worst Australian Arts Funding Cuts in a Generation  - The Australian government body for arts funding, Australia Council, has ... the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, and the Biennale of ...

Bowraville murders: lack of justice, deep US south style  - The inability of authorities to put their killer behind bars illustrates the fault lines running between many in Australia's Aboriginal communities and its ...

Multiculturalism: not an ideal, but a reality  - By walking a middle path in Aboriginal Australia that is aimed at creating a new social equilibrium, Stan Grant will cop it from both sides.

Tom tackles suicide rate in young Aboriginal men  - Mr Goolagong himself has Aboriginal heritage and is passionate about sport and the positive role it can play in the lives of Australia's indigenous  ...

How one Australian state is rethinking its relationship with Aboriginals  - No Australian government has signed a treaty with its indigenous population. But now in the state of Victoria, the premier sees a treaty as a way to ...

Interrogating and interpreting the mediation of an emerging Australian Aboriginal social movement ...  - The founding of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA) in 1923 heralded the rise of an organized, motivated Australian Aboriginal  ...

New research into ways to stop Betel nut chewing  -  New research in Micronesia is hoping to lead to a programme that helps people quit chewing betel nut. The University of Guam's Yvette Paulino says ...

Thousands of Auckland over-65s could lose free travel  - I appreciate that it will inconvenience a small number of people , and if they are regulars the investment in a one-off $10 card will probably pay for itself ...

Papua Relaxes Detention Conditions for Undocumented Immigrants  - Moreover, immigrants can only leave Manus if they sign a document promising they will live in Papua New Guinea, something only eight people have ...

Indonesian crackdown on West Papuan independence protest  - Further west along the Papua New Guinea north coast, just over the border with Indonesia in the Papuan capital, Jayapura, 1500 people were ...

The Road to Freedom for West Papua  - The meeting was briefed by parliamentarians, lawyers and academics, all of whom discussed and affirmed the West Papuan people's fundamental ...

Is racism more than skin deep in New Zealand ?  - Is New Zealand a racist country? A lot of urban liberals, myself included, as well as many Maori , such as broadcaster Miriama Kamo, were ...

Witehira wins Māori Business leader award   - He's also the Chairman of the New World North Island Supermarket ... to the advancement of Māori enterprise in New Zealand and around the world.

CrossFit Pacific Regional - NZ makes an impression  - The fittest men and women in the Pacific threw down at the final day of the three-day CrossFit Games Pacific Regional in Wollongong in the hopes of ...

Waikato students top of the bunch in te reo Māori and NZ Scholarship stakes - Te reo Māori is Hamilton student Te Paea Ngapo's life, "not just something I participate in". She got the highest marks in the country for the te reo ...