Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

20 years of saving lives - Plumpy‘Nut is a powerful peanut-based paste with skimmed milk powder, sugar, vegetable fat, vitamins and minerals. Kids love it. And it can be the difference between their life and death.

Ludicrous' education system failing gifted children , parents and experts say - Parents and education experts say Australia's education system is failing gifted children and is in need of urgent change to help kids like six-year-old ...

The uncomfortable hypocrisy of Australia's Next Top Model - Admittedly, nobody watches Australia's Next Top Model for its moral compass, but it could be argued that the show has a big impetus to take mental  ...

Can Indigenous culture ever coexist with urban planning? - In Australia the acknowledgement of Indigenous land ownership, ... that considers coexistence in both the Australian and Canadian urban contexts.

Indigenous Advocate Named 2016 Telstra Business Woman of the Year -  Indigenous advocate and the CEO of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara ... Mason was also the 2016 Telstra Australian Business Women's For Purpose ...

Peak Indigenous body welcomes NSW language bill - Faith Baisden, manager of First Languages Australia , said she supported the commitment from the NSW Government, the first state to take this step.

Chinese company plans $400 million theme park for Queensland's Gold Coast - In a statement to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Songcheng said the theme park would have an " Australian Indigenous Cultural Village", a "wild ...

From UN Climate Talks, Indigenous Activists Align with Standing Rock Protesters as Tensions Rise ... - From UN Climate Talks, Indigenous Activists Align with Standing Rock ... the international indigenous community was already decrying the treatment of .... Australia and expert on Indigenous Peoples' engagement on climate issues, ...

The top mental health challenges facing refugees from Burma - An Australian study showed the rate of depression among Karen refugees there to be about 36 percent, while a University at Buffalo study found that ...

NSW suicide rate at 19-year high as road deaths decline - Overall, 504 children died in 2015 from all causes – the lowest the rate has been since 1996. But 58% of those children were infants aged less than 12 months and 42 of them died suddenly and unexpectedly.

Christmas a financial nightmare for almost half of all families -    Seventy per cent of respondents believed the gap between rich and poor was widening, a perception supported by the Poverty in Australia report by ...

Gay bobsledder Simon Dunn retires from sport with 'mixed emotions' -  Australian rugby pro Simon Dunn, the first openly gay man to represent Australia in the sport of bobsledding, took to Instagram today to announce he's ...

Australian Aboriginals Fight Government Plan to Build Radioactive Dump On Sacred Sites - An Australian government agency plan to build a central repository for ... gain and long-term custodianship of land occupied by Aboriginal people for ...

Australia Legendary Kingdom proposed for Gold Coast - According to The Australian, the Australia Legendary Kingdom theme park will offer “different precincts including ' Australian Aboriginal Cultural ...

Traditional owners make digital storybook -  Aboriginal rangers in Australia's central desert have created an interactive app with global potential for helping indigenous communities protect their ...

Aboriginal actress Nakkiah Lui clashes with commentator over 'racist' Bill Leak cartoon -  Aboriginal actress Nakkiah Lui went on the attack as the panel debated the cartoon and section 18C of ...

New Zealanders told to check letterboxes for meth - Holiday-home owners in a picturesque region of New Zealand's South Island are being warned to check their letterboxes for hard drugs. Meth dealers ...

Haka party history remembered as FOMA buddies up to engineers - It used to be a place where Maori culture was lampooned with crude jokes and drunken haka, leading the notorious 'haka party' protest by He Taua in ...

Latest Labour market factsheets for Māori and Pacific Peoples released - The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has today released the Labour Market Factsheets for Māori and Pacific peoples for the year to ...

Rotorua Library to host city's founding agreement events - Ngāti Whakaue kaumatua and Rotorua Lakes Council's Kaitiaki Māori , Monty Morrison, says it's important for people to know the history of the land ...

Maori community supporting domestic violence prevention - Jacobs Well Environmental Centre was set up to represent Maori style presentation of learning, delivering information to attendees to assist in filtering ...

Connections between the kauaka and the Maori people - The start of the kauaka and how it came to be with Maori . Oh is this the kauaka our tribe has been looking for? Who are these strange people?

Closure of Hato Petera College could be announced this week, principal fears - Principal John Matthews told Maori TV on Tuesday he expected there would be a formal announcement about when the school would close.

Discussion reveals drug addiction a health issue not a crime - That system will continue to put more and more Māori behind bars.” ... The NZ Drug Foundation will look to take this issue to the people of Te Arawa.