Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

How Australia's Aborigines Are Using Fire to Save the Dazzling Gouldian Finch - A new burn program led by Kija rangers is helping bring back the beloved birds while delivering hope to an impoverished community.

In historic gathering, nation's Indigenous MPs reject hate and vow to work together -  Australia's record-high five Indigenous MPs have vowed to work together across ... Six years ago, there were no Aboriginal MPs in federal Parliament.

Queenslanders dying earlier than most other Australians , with those in the bush most at risk - Rural Doctors Association of Australia chief executive Peta Rutherford. ... “(We) need to look at supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...

Pauline Hanson was wrong 20 years ago. And she's wrong now - Firstly, take her 1996 comments about Indigenous Australians , and her outlandish declarations that a form of reverse racism had begun to flourish ...

Where is the opposition? - TAI also noted the “staggering inequality in Australia where the 10 richest ... have the same wealth as the poorest 3.9 million Australians combined”. ... the poverty line and then to a level on which people can live with some dignity.

Gays must get behind same-sex vote - Malcolm Turnbull, sensibly sticking to a policy devised by Tony Abbott to appeal to mainstream Australia , has promised a gay marriage plebiscite on ...

Why a gay senator in Australia opposes a public vote on marriage equality - As the Australian Parliament weighs whether to hold a countrywide vote on marriage equality, the plebiscite's loudest critics have been LGBT  ...

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has a powerful message on plebiscite - On issues like economic reform and gun control, Australia was well ahead of ... ago, avoiding a lot of uncertainty and trauma for the LGBT community.

Someone's got to give this country hope': Clinton Pryor begins journey across Australia - He agrees with Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Ben Wyatt's ... Kara Keys, the Indigenous Officer of the Australian Council of Trade Unions says ...

Study's findings up the ante on pension poverty in Australia - In March Australian Ageing Agenda reported on a study that found half a million older Australian women were living in long-term income poverty (read ...

Reject ageism, ' old age will come to us all' - The bishops link Australia’s treatment of the elderly with Western discomfort around dying and point to the looming threat posed by euthanasia and assisted dying in a society that “idealizes notions of youthfulness and vitality.”

Canberra LGBT groups reject plebiscite on same-sex marriage - As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull introduced legislation to Parliament this week that would see Australians vote on the issue on February 11, LGBT  ...

Female health professionals at a greater risk of suicide - Female health professionals are at twice the risk of suicide according to report. Photo: Joe Armao. Published in the Medical Journal of Australia on ...

Aboriginal law academic says colonialism ongoing within Australia . - A South Australian Aboriginal law academic says colonialism still exists within Australia and the High Court ruling on native title hasn't really fixed ...

Australia to remove tributes to Scot who massacred Aboriginals - A SCOTS explorer credited as one of the founding fathers of Australia is set to have his name wiped from the map after his bloody past came to light.

Sotheby's London to Sell Second Lot of Aboriginal Art Masterpieces - Following their first foray into Aboriginal art, Sotheby's London will be putting nearly 100 more works from indigenous Australia on the block on ...

Lack of respect creates Kermadec impasse - A far north tribal leader says the Government's failure to respect Maori treaty rights means the problems it now faces to create a marine sanctuary ...

Engagement excellence awards - In 2015, Professor Higgins was appointed by the Minister for Māori Development to chair the independent expert Māori Language Advisory Group.

One up to Australia in indigenous basketball test - The Apunipima Australian Indigenous All Stars basketball team are one up in a three game trans-Tasman series after beating the National Maori team ...

Maori Party challenge - Just like the Foreshore and Seabed debate ended up being the downfall of Helen Clark's Labour Party's Maori MPs, the Kermadecs could go the ...

Crunch time for the Maori Party - The Maori Party is at the centre of the storm over the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary but others are having to navigate a way through it as well.

Maori blame Smith for Kermadec impasse - Environment Minister Nick Smith has handled the proposed Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary poorly and would deprive Maori of future fishing rights, says ...

Maori king cuts ties with Labour Party -  The New Zealand Maori king, the traditional figurehead of the central North Island Tainui tribe, used a speech on the 10th anniversary of his ...

Prime Minister Peter O'Neill congratulates PNG on 41 years of Independence - We are helping our people to enter the small business sector, or grow ... Today, more and more people know about Papua New Guinea around the ...