Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Maori caucus expects key roles  - The Maori members would expect that we would be given the opportunities in key roles within the party, leadership aside. So some of those key roles ...

Council adopts Toi Moana title  - A Maori member on the Bay of Plenty Regional Council says the adoption of a Maori name is a sign of the organisation's increasing focus on working ...

Indonesia's Joko Widodo focused on solving West Papua problems  - "I want to give special attention to West Papua ," said Mr Joko in an ... Prominent Papuan woman, Frederika Korain, said people looked with hope ...

West Papuans enjoy fest  - The food festival has been a very good opportunity for us to come and introduce to people food from the Indonesian culture, especially from West ...

Survival calls for release of journalists and political prisoners in West Papua  - Survival also highlights the plight of Papuan tribal people who have suffered immensely under a brutal Indonesian occupation since 1963. Many have ...

Hot button: Oaktree's Fiona Canny discusses solutions to extreme poverty  - Last week's guest was Fiona Canny, the head of campaigns for Oaktree, Australia's biggest youth-led organisation, which works to end extreme ...

I just take it in my stride': Australian actor Ryan Kwanten talks about his gay vampire sex scenes -    Ryan's character, gay vampire Jason Stackhouse, in the cult supernatural ... The star also addresses rumours of a return to his roots on Australian  ...

Pilbara hopes to sew profitable future from collection of native wildflower seeds  - They're native , they grow here, it's hot here, there's very little nutrients and we're shipping plants up from all over Australia that just aren't suitable.

Blind boxer: 'I can see my beautiful wife again'  -  ALEX Dennis was in his early 40s when his vision started becoming cloudy and blurry.  Within a short space of time he had gone from living a full and independent life to completely relying on his wife Daphne and children to get around.

Case of jailed mentally ill man to be reviewed  - The imprisonment of a mentally impaired Aboriginal man without conviction in Western Australia since 2003 will be reviewed in December. The man ...

Tiwi Ashes pitches Matthew Hayden against Adam Gilchrist to help Indigenous school kids  - Here at Pickataramoor among gum trees and pandanus, some of the best players from the Australian team of previous decades have led competing ...

Cathy Freeman opens up about discrimination during her career  - The position that both Cathy and I were in as Australia's two elite indigenous athletes - we certainly had our moment where we received mail and that ...

Enough is enough – It's time to act by supporting the call for our true leaders  - As White Australians try and wash their hands of their own sins and close their eyes in denial of the past we, as Aboriginal People, become nothing ...

Hasty rollout of indigenous strategy to ruin groups, says Fred Chaney  -  Hasty rollout of indigenous strategy to ruin groups, says Fred Chaney ... FORMER Liberal Aboriginal affairs minister Fred Chaney has warned that “major ... destruction,” said Mr Chaney, co-founding chair of Reconciliation Australia .

Australian rock art is threatened by a lack of conservation  - But now, impending changes to the Aboriginal Heritage Act by the Western Australian government means Aboriginal heritage will be worse off than ...

Ebola causing some people to change travel plans  - Maryann Cook, a travel agent in New York, said that a Florida doctor who booked a $197,000 family safari trip to South Africa for 30 people next year ...

Could this be the world's most dangerous job?  - A New Zealand nurse has travelled to Ebola-ravaged West Africa to do some of the most ... More than 4500 people have died from it in West Africa.

Alicia's logo selected by New Zealand midwives  - 'She and the board in New Zealand thought the logo was perfect and just ... by both geographical area and population size, serving 510,000 people .

We've got to talk to NZers'  - There's a group of New Zealanders who feel that we're not speaking to them about their lives. They're all sorts of people from different backgrounds.".

Niue celebrates 40 years of self-government  - Niue's premier, Toke Talagi, said the biggest impact has been the migration of Niuen people to New Zealand . He said that had leveled off recently due ...