Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Indigenous incarceration rate 'shameful' due to failure to address poverty  - His comments come as the Northern Territory government passed legislation expanding the use of restraints for children in juvenile detention, and seeking to remove the presumption of bail for repeat offenders.

It's Sorry Day. But 'Sorry' Means It Shouldn't Happen Again   - The forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and land is a blight on Australian history. Although we as a ...

There are lots of ways to say sorry, but Indigenous Australians need a treaty now  - An Indigenous woman in Canberra in February 2008, watching Kevin Rudd deliver an apology to Australia's first peoples. It was 'underwritten with ...

Violence linked to poverty  - The Salvation Army released a nationwide survey this week after it surveyed 1600 people across Australia who sought its assistance. The findings ...

More resources needed to support schizophrenia  - The figures released by the Mental Health Fellowship of Australia (MIFA) also showed less than half the 600,000 Australians with a serious mental  ...

Desmond Tutu's daughter Mpho Tutu-van Furth has priest duties stripped away amid gay marriage ...   - He has previously spoken out in favour of gay marriage. Marceline Tutu-van Furth is an Amsterdam-based professor specialising in paediatric ...

Gay ex-league star reveals guilt burden  - Rugby league's first openly gay player has revealed feelings of torment and guilt he still carries more than 20 years after coming out. Former Test and ...

Australia's Unjust and Unnecessary Popular Vote on Same-Sex Marriage Will Cost Millions  - Because unlike Spain and 20 other countries around the world, gay marriage still isn't legal in Australia . Instead, for the last seven or eight years, I've ...

Western Australian council votes against flying Aboriginal flag  - Shire president Karl Brandenburg has defended the decision not to fly the Aboriginal flag above the council's offices: 'I believe we should all be one ...

Labor promises to double Indigenous ranger numbers  - Rangers and the Indigenous protected areas many of them work on have ... Snowdon told Guardian Australia its five-year commitment was “what we ...

Marjorie Trip a Navy trailblazer who fought passionately for equal rights  - Marjorie will receive a guard of honour to recognise her service career, becoming the first Aboriginal member of the Women's Royal Australian Naval ...

Australian Pavilion installs pool as space for healing division   - Landmark events in the nation's history have evolved around public pools, with protests by Australia's Indigenous community forming a pivotal role in ...

Little change for First Peoples as assimilation continues  - The Aboriginal rights struggle, the greatest rights struggle of any peoples on this ... I wonder if Australia will ever acknowledge that there are wonderful, 

Australia Offers ' National Sorry Day' to Black Aboriginal People for Brutal Eugenics and Theft of ...  - On May 26, Australia observes National Sorry Day, an acknowledgement of the Stolen Generations of Black indigenous people who were kidnapped from their families in a policy of assimilationism. The title of the holiday itself screams out for more than an apology.

Ancestral remains to be welcomed back into New Zealand  -  Maori remains are being returned to New Zealand after spending more than a century overseas. New Zealand Police said the remains of 60 Maori and ...

New Zealand The Longest Place Name In The World   - This 1,000-foot hill on the North Island of New Zealand is named after Tamatea, who was a legendary Maori explorer who traversed across the vast ...

Northlanders urged to immunise against measles  - and diarrhoea and one in ten ended up in hospital. Dr Mills said hospital admission rates in recent New Zealand outbreaks had been even higher.

The more people smoke, the more they pay   - Act New Zealand leader David Seymour said the Budget increased taxes on ... About 15% of adult New Zealanders - or 50,000 people - smoked daily.

Whanau Ora, reo and whenua funded in Budget 2016  -  Mrs Fox says the Maori Party championed this initiative after trials in the Auckland region showed the long-term benefits of providing micro-financing.

Tobacco excise duty increases from “robots on a steamroller”: Marewa Glover  - The financial stress being loaded on to people in lower socioeconomic groups, such as Maori women, is, if anything, driving them to smoke more, she ...

Police Involved in Repatriation of Maori and Moriori Ancestral Remains  - On Friday 27 May, New Zealand Police staff will assist Te Papa with the repatriation of Maori ancestral remains which were traded, collected or taken ...

Researchers find new ways to reduce smoking in NZ  - The project aims to reduce the prevalence and initiation of smoking among Māori through the revitalisation of tikanga aukati (imposed restriction) and ...

Watch New Zealand Infantrymen Honor Fallen Troops With This Ancestral War Cry  - In New Zealand, the Maori people have an ancestral war cry with a dance called “haka” that was originally performed by warriors before a battle.

House reverses course on LGBT rights for federal contractors  - House reverses course on LGBT rights for federal contractors ... Openly gay New York Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney returned to attach the measure ...