Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Yes to Children, No to Poverty” Says Commissioner  - This is a unique opportunity to hear how traditional Māori health pratices and approaches contribute to health and wellbeing” said Riki Nia Nia, ...

Maori party slams attack on workers' rights  - In what could be a test of their relationship, the Maori Party has condemned the first major piece of legislation National has introduced for its third term.

NZ protest calls for media freedom in West Papua   -When Japan invaded Indonesia, only twenty years before Indonesia occupied West Papua , Indonesia and its people experienced similar if not the ...

Brutal new Defence Minister undermines Jokowi's overtures to West Papua   -The Indonesian Armed Forces have marginalised the West Papuan ... Papua Association (AWPA) states: “The people of West Papua live in fear of ...

Johnny Weir fights gay intolerance in EPIX documentary  -  Gay figure skater Johnny Weir has a lifelong, unwavering affection for ... New Zealand speed skater Blake Skjellerup — who in the film is shown ...

Remove race reference from Constitution: Recognise committee  -  The report contains three options for recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution and for dealing with ...

Sex and gay children in Catholic families  - Over the last few weeks the Australian couple featured in this interview have become unlikely international media celebrities. The very forthright ...

MPs offer options on indigenous recognition  - Both options propose recognising indigenous prior occupation of Australia , acknowledging the continuing relationship between indigenous people ...

Punishment makes things worse  - Indigenous women are now currently the most represented group in ... A majority of Australia's Indigenous population live in low socio-economic ...

Smartphone apps used to save endangered Indigenous languages  - There were more than 500 dialects and 250 distinct languages spoken by Australia's Indigenous population at the time of European settlement, the ...

Miss Universe Australia Tegan Martin prepares to strutt her stuff on world stage  - WHEN she's not on a catwalk, Miss Universe Australia beauty queen Tegan ... in our constitution, I am really proud to wear this indigenous creation.

While old Indigenous languages disappear, new ones evolve   - But if children in remote Indigenous communities aren't still learning ... Astonishingly most non- Indigenous Australians have never even heard of it.

Breaking the poverty cycle with education  - Nearly 640,000 Australian children live in a 'jobless' family. These children are, on average, up to three years behind their peers in reading and maths ...

Gaymers are very welcome at PAX Australia  - For the longest time I felt like I was the only gay in the village, but once you make more friends you realise that the games community is just as diverse ...

Australia paper finally says sorry for 'she-male' headline  - An Australian newspaper has finally apologized for its sensationalist coverage of a transgender woman’s murder after public outrage and several complaints to the Press Council. 

NZ 'stagnated' on child poverty and inequality - UNICEF  - A United Nation's report says New Zealand's child poverty and inequality ... The report also commissioned a Gallup poll on how people around the ...

The doctor who died to save Nigeria  - Cruel and deadly in equal measure, Ebola has killed nearly 5,000 people in west Africa - most of them, like Mr Cardoso's mother, dying without the ...

Depression initiative wins advertising awards  - It is great to see New Zealand's National Depression Initiative gain ... affects the lives of thousands of New Zealanders , and it is important people get ...

Health professionals say TPPA risks climate and health protection  - Climate change is a health threat for all New Zealanders , with Maori, Pacific people , children, the elderly, and low income groups likely to be the ...

Age discrimination - How old is too old?  - With an ageing population and the growing tendency for people to keep working in some shape or form beyond the traditional retirement age, it is a ...