Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Call for major parties to prioritise policies for an ageing Australia  - Experts in work and care policy are urging the next Australian government to address the high rate of old age poverty and the need for a ...

Why Punishment Won't Stop Your Child From Being A Bully  - No one likes to imagine their child is a bully. But with one in four Year 4 to Year 9 Australian students (27 percent) reportedly being affected by bullying ...

We need answers on domestic violence  - Police cannot say how many South Australian women and children died last year, or so far this year, from family violence . In the wake of the alleged ...

Poet saw Aboriginal people as the invaders  - Reeve would have known through the Historical Records of New South Wales and Historical Records of Australia that Simon Freebody was one of five ...

Endangered Kiwi Chick Hatches  - Ngati Hine Rua and Ngati Hine Tahi were given to SCBI as a gift from the government of New Zealand in 2010 after receiving a Maori blessing.

Ethnic diversity means old categories are less relevant today - Most of us wish to see genuine transformation within Aboriginal affairs, yet this is becoming a strained task when progress is so clearly incommensurate with the amount of spending.

Sorry, for a sorry state of affairs  - It is a familiar and sorry tale all over Australia but nobody seems to have a solution. Indigenous children in Aurukun – some indigenous residents have ...

6000 more Indigenous students supported to stay in school  - The AIME programme demonstrates you can be proud of your culture and heritage as an Indigenous Australian , and be highly educated – these two ...

Indigenous owners appeal to Minister's 'human side' to shelve proposed nuclear waste site  -  Aboriginal traditional owners near the Flinders Ranges are outraged their land's been selected as the proposed site for Australia's  ...

Telethon Kids Institute researchers find link between excessive internet use and mental health issues  - The Perth-based medical research team used data from Young Minds Matter, one of the largest youth mental health survey in Australia . Lead author ...

Affordable Australia – head West for extraordinary experiences that won't cost the earth  - New tours and affordable hotels are making Western Australia easier to ... with aboriginal elders before picking up a return service back to Broome.

Aboriginal Teenager Reaches Miss World Australia Final And Breaks Records  - It's hard to believe Miss World still exists in 2016, what with the sparkling tiaras, pinned sashes, male judges, points cards, not to mention the bikini ...

A Social History of Australia , Through Its Swimming Pools  - For Hetti Perkins, an eminent curator of indigenous arts, the swimming pool is a key site of social integration. Her father, the Australian aboriginal  ...

Why Every Aussie Should Learn To Speak An Indigenous Australian Language  - It does seem ridiculous that in Australia very few people speak an Australian language . Who of you reading this piece speaks or knows anything about ...

Nick Jonas Gay ? Confirms Sex with a Guy  - Nick Jonas grew up before our very eyes. He was that little, curly-haired kid with the husky voice from the Jonas Brothers band with Kevin and Joe ...

Australia Christian lobbyist won't apologise for comparing gay weddings to the Holocaust  - The head of Australia's largest Christian lobbying group has refused to apologise for comparing the equal marriage movement to Nazi Germany.

Six major sports embracing diversity  - New Zealand and Australia also had the highest number of gay youth who hid their sexuality, while New Zealand lesbians in adult sport were the most ...

Blindness to the beauty of Ngāruawāhia is blindness to the beauty of New Zealand  -  New Zealand's small towns are one bastion that protects our national identity: if only because we are close enough to the land and to the people upon ...

Wellington Council backs down on burial fee  - It used to be in place, we pulled it out a couple of years ago, there's only one or two people per year that this impacts, it's something that we will ...

NZDF tackle sexual harassment issues  - The New Zealand Defence Force has brought in an outside team of six professionals to help reduce sexual harassment and harmful behaviour within ...

Minister Tolley agrees system has failed children  - Last night on Native Affairs Outgoing Children's Commissioner Dr. Russell Wills said New Zealand has failed in keeping children safe from child ...

Indigenous solutions sought to combat suicide  - Suicide rates for Māori are two-and-a-half times more than for non- Maori , but New Zealand's tāngata whenua are not alone, with indigenous ...

A kiwi is born! Rare flightless New Zealand bird hatched at National Zoo's Virginia research facility  - The bird is sacred to the Maori people of New Zealand , said Murphy, who added that keepers routinely collect fallen feathers that are later returned ...

Emotikis and New Keyboards Bring Indigenous Cultures to Text Messaging  - But when people from the Te Puia Māori cultural center in Rotorua, New Zealand looked at existing emojis, they realized there was an opportunity to ...

Assessing Jokowi's election promises to the Papuan people Devina Heriyanto  - During his campaign period, the now President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo made several promises to Papuan people . Nearly two years on, the ...

Four Maori Henderson-Massey candidates a first for Auckland  - The Henderson-Massey board is the second largest in the city and represents the second highest Maori population in Auckland. Yet, it has only one ...