Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Tame Iti backs Maori Party  - He says the Maori Party is focused on the issues that are important to whanau, hapu and iwi and provides an independent voice for Maori in ...

Fear of lost votes is te reo's worst enemy  - Luckily my employer doesn't reprimand me for greeting you in Maori, unlike the ... a young woman in Whangarei, a town with a large Maori population .

Inside the 21st century Pompeii: Meet the families scratching a living in ruined ash-covered town ...  - the town of Rabaul on East New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea should be a ... 'Over 30,000 people left the town itself and a further 50,000 ran from the ... 'Only four people lost their lives in the eruption, although one other was ...

Troy Williams representing NZ at Mr Gay World in Rome  - Auckland's Troy Williams has arrived in Rome with high expectations as he seeks to bring the Mr Gay World title back to New Zealand for the third year ...

Aboriginal justice commissioner pushes for 2015 referendum on Indigenous recognition  -  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda has called on the government to break ties with Australia's 'racist past' ...

Males have higher death rate than females  - A new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows that the death rate for males is 1.5 times as high as the rate for females. The report,   Mortality inequalities in Australia: 2009-2011 , shows that there are significant inequalities when it comes to dying early or from potentially avoidable causes

Funding certainty call for Indigenous family violence legal help  - Funding uncertainty for the program and its high-need Indigenous family violence clients has entered a critical phase under new tender arrangements, ...

How our fruit and vegetables are lying to us  - OUR vegetables are looking better than ever but many of them are less healthy they used to be thanks to modern farming practices. “Over the last 50 years, as plant breeders breed for specific things like shelf life, and ignored nutrition, it has been falling slowly,” Dr Dyno Keatinge said.

Andrew Bolt Insists Indigenous Australians Weren't 'Here First'  - Andrew Bolt, the Australian media's answer to that kid who dances around you in the schoolyard waving his hand centimeters from your face and ...

Linguists record endangered Indigenous Goldfields language Tjupan in bid to save it  - A linguist from Yale University is recording an endangered Indigenous language in Western Australia's Goldfields region in attempt to stop it from ...

Aboriginal sport and health funding grant  - The Aboriginal sport and health funding grant provides small grants to support Aboriginal organisations to plan and conduct community sporting ...

Public inquiry to overseas gay marriage bill sees minor changes  - Brown also argued that under the current law, same-sex couples married overseas may be unable to divorce their spouse within Australia .

The issue of corporal punishment of children and men's violence against women in Australia A ...  - In relation to corporal punishment by parents, it remains lawful for parents in all jurisdictions to use "reasonable" corporal punishment to discipline their children. New South Wales is the only state to have made legislative amendments concerning corporal punishment by parents

Second Australian state Labor Party branch backs binding MPs to vote for marriage equality  - Delegates to the Queensland State Australian Labor Party Conference have today voted to bind its federal MPs to vote for the legalization of same-sex  ...

Refugees' mental anguish in Australia's 'Guantanamo'  -  Australia's policy of indefinite detention of the refugees with adverse security findings was found by the United Nations last August to be in breach of ...

New campaign backs older workers  - Senator Abetz said the campaign was a way of getting the message about the value of older workers, to people of all ages around Australia .

Is New Zealand an unequal society?  - Radio New Zealand's education, health and economics correspondents .... "We actually need to be targetting people who at the moment struggle to ...

Two-thirds of New Zealanders are touched by dementia  - Most New Zealanders indicated they would be willing and able to help people with dementia in public, and would be happy to talk about it if a close ...

Dementia affects most NZers - study  - The research, by Alzheimers New Zealand , also shows half of those have been involved in the direct care of people suffering from dementia.

What Is It Like to Live in Christchurch, New Zealand ?  - The values described in this answer are more typical of rural New Zealanders , who, like rural people in most developed countries, tend to be more ...