Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

How the global response to HIV/AIDS renders Indigenous peoples “invisible”  -  Australian Indigenous health researcher James Ward has called on the international HIV and AIDS community to identify Indigenous peoples as a ...

Hip-hop takes centre stage at National Indigenous Music Awards  - It is only appropriate, says Mark Smith, executive director of MusicNT, which stages the NIMAs, as hip-hop ''has given a voice to indigenous Australia  ...

Are Aboriginal inmates the next Muslim extremists?  -  Australia's spy agency has been enlisted to help crack down on radicalisation in jails after revelations Aboriginal prisoners are converting to Islam and ...

Anglican Bishop continues work to 'close the gap'  - The Anglican Bishop of Newcastle Greg Thompson says fear has driven many people to treat indigenous Australians the same way as asylum seekers ...

Neighbours casts its first Indigenous actor after 29 years of drama on Ramsay Street  - Meyne Wyatt, who was born in the remote town of Kalgoolie in Western Australia , is joining the show next month as character Nate Kinski.

Stepping up the HIV response in the world's Indigenous communities  -  Indigenous people are estimated to comprise 4.5% of the total global ... But the patterns of HIV between non- Indigenous Australians and the First ...

Modern Australia , school culture converge  - Kobi Russell provides tips on dot painting. It's all about creativity; no need to cross the t's and dot the i's here! From left: Kobi ...

Matthew Mitcham: 'Platform king' to 'queen of the world'  - When Mitcham triumphed at the Beijing Olympics, he was afforded the ultimate kudos by Australia's LGBT community -- being named "Chief of ...

Effort to eliminate religious education 'misdirected'  -  New Zealand Christian Network spokesman Glyn Carpenter says efforts by Secular Education Network to close down Bible in Schools are misdirected ...

The little film that could  - Currie's debut feature film will be New Zealand's first ever day-and-date release, ... And if that's the case - what are the people like who took her?

Creative Commonwealth: New Zealand and South Africa share their insights into creativity across ...  - Thirdly, whether it is the distance from the rest of the world or the lack of people , there is something in the New Zealand psyche that values creativity, ...

AIDS 2014: NZ sets condom use example  -  New Zealand's total adherence to condoms as the first and main line of ... "But when people make a song and dance about treatment as prevention, ...

Let's design our cities around people  - The decision of the Board of Inquiry to reject the New Zealand Transport Agency's proposal for a Basin Reserve Flyover places the public ...

Majority of Maori still on the general roll  - New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is promising to bring more Maori MPs into parliament, but the party still won't be running candidates in the ...

Maori language week: arohanui  - It is Maori language week. Maori is a Polynesian language and close to the language of the Cook islands and Tahitian. it is an official language ...

Te Reo Māori in schools  - The only Māori content then was provided by a Pakeha teacher who had his kids build a matchstick and papier-mache pa each year and was ...

NZ First leader pledges to remove GST on food  - He adds that Maori voters are returning to the NZ First party who is positioned to address four important issues for its constituents: affordable housing, ...

Maori farm expertise on show  - Work to increase the productivity of Maori land will be on display this week to manuhiri from Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation economies. The APEC ...

Maori economy' underperforms  - Financial commentator Bernard Hickey puts his political correctness on show in his article titled “New Zealand's Maori economy: a powerful force in ...

Rapist artist to stay behind bars  - The victim had given inconsistent evidence, including describing the offender as Maori , in his late 20s to early 30s, and incorrectly describing his ...