Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

NBA legend Michael Jordan speaks out on guns and racial violence in rare politically charged piece  - Basketball icon Michael Jordan, long reluctant to speak out on social issues, has condemned the gun violence that has heightened racial tensions in ...

Tanya Plibersek handed education job in Labor shadow ministry shake-up  - Shorten has taken on the Indigenous affairs portfolio, with the new West Australian senator and Indigenous leader Patrick Dodson advising him on the ...

The Black Lives Matter Movement Has Come To Australia And It's Not Messing Around  - “We all know that all humans lives matter, but at this point in time it's black people and the Indigenous people here in Australia along with the West ...

Top End explorer, Knut Dahl, a witness to Aboriginal -settler tensions  - So, with a bang, the first of many, begins In Savage Australia , the most ... He could probe the intricacies of indigenous tradition and belief, and wonder ...

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of indigenous Australian children…  - A group of indigenous Australian grandmothers have organised themselves to stop the Australian government from taking away indigenous children ...

Warren H Williams and Dani Young team up to record an album and make history in Nashville  -  Indigenous country music artist Warren H Williams from Central Australia has teamed up with emerging artist Dani Young and they are about to launch ...

Images expose boys as young as 14 tortured in Australia , practiced for at least 5 years  - Explosive revelations on a national television show of a regime of widespread brutality and humiliation in a Northern Territory juvenile detention center ...

Homo sapiens interbred with THIRD species of hominem on way to Australia  - We show that populations from South and Southeast Asia harbor a small proportion of ancestry from an unknown extinct hominin, and this ancestry is absent from Europeans and East Asians,' the researchers wrote in Nature Genetics .

Economic benefit of up to $78 billion if Australia employed more people over 55  - If Australia increased the workforce participation of older workers it could boost the economy by up to $78 billion, a new report has found.

MH370 pilot's home simulator data not evidence of murder– suicide , says Australian Government  - An apparent clue to the involvement of the chief pilot in the mass murder and suicide theory of MH370's disappearance, which helped shape the vastly ...

Forum told of teaching  - According to the Australian Indigenous Lecturers in Teachers Education Association, there are about 4,000 Indigenous teachers nationally and about ...

Let Indigenous Australians decide  - The Don Dale abuse, while horrific, is just another atrocity to add to a long list of systemic oppression endured by Indigenous Australians , writes John ...

Indigenous leaders call for NT Government to be sacked amid youth detention scandal  - Now a group of organisations including the Northern Land Council and the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency says the Federal Parliament ...

Children stripped, assaulted and tear-gassed at detention center  - The allegations, which appeared on Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s "Four Corners" investigative program, showed children as young as 10 being stripped naked, assaulted, tear-gassed and kept in solitary confinement.

Victoria Premier Andrews urges Turnbull to abandon same-sex marriage plebiscite  - Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews has asked Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to call off the plans for a plebiscite on same-sex marriage in Australia .

Open arms win open minds  - In Australia the over-50s currently spend $200 billion per year. The lesbian, gay , bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community spends $20 ...

Indigenous communities worldwide are fighting to deal with the threat of HIV  - Many Indigenous people from across the Pacific islands end up going to New Zealand for care, because they don't want others knowing what they are ...

Child abuse is a problem that can be solved: Here's how  - The Faces of Innocents project highlights New Zealand's problem with child abuse, neglect .... Many news stories of abuse concern Maori children.

New Zealand aims to get rid of Invasive Predators by 2050  - Rats, called kiore, are the invasive animals in New Zealand . These were first introduced in the country over 700 years ago by Maori settlers, who used ...

Kupe scholarships to increase Maori teachers  - They represent a range of ages and stages in terms of career choice, and many of them also speak their heritage language, whether that's Maori or ...

Te Puea winding up homeless outreach  - He told Radio Waatea host Willie Jackson 90 percent of the whanau helped were Maori , with families who had been sleeping in their cars joined by ...

Families report bureaucratic box ticking  - The president of the Maori Women's Welfare League is questioning the value of a report which attempted to track ethnic differences in the way families ...

Strength and beauty on display at schools kapa haka  - This is the strength and the beauty of our Maori rangataha throughout the many schools, whether they are kura kaupapa Maori , kura Maori as well as ...

Minister can take big step to save babies' lives  -  Māori babies make up more than 60 percent of all cot deaths in New Zealand. Providing every Māori family with a pepi-pod for their baby will help to ...