Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Maori Party says iwi should have right of refusal  - The Maori Party wants iwi to get the first right of refusal for all state houses the ... The Maori Party described the plan as a mixed bag that fell short. ... more than 100 houses which it had leased to Housing New Zealand since 1996.

Housing WOF could be price of support  - The Maori Party wants a warrant of fitness for social housing to be part of the overhaul of social housing policy. Co-leader Marama Fox says Prime ...

Technology lays open language  - Business development director Steven Renata says by animating graphic novels about the Maori demigods, they hope to reach a new audience of ...

Presbyterian Church to lead Waitangi Day dawn ceremony  - For the first time in the history of the Presbyterian Church, its ministers, led by the Church's Māori Synod, will conduct the Waitangi Day dawn ...

Social housing proposal falls short  - While the Māori Party welcomes some of the social housing proposals announced yesterday, it believes much more needs to be done to provide ...

New report: Australia needs to radically rethink its housing policy for ageing population  -  Australia has it wrong when it comes to housing policy for an ageing society, a new report has found. The problem stems from a presumption that older  ...

Majority of Queenslanders in support of euthanasia  - Currently, no jurisdiction in Australia allows assisted suicide . A voluntary euthanasia bill was narrowly defeated in Tasmania in 2013. The Northern ...

Tablets can become a bitter pill  - ALMOST 30 per cent of schools in Australia now require children to bring their own laptops or tablets, and experts say this trend has added to ...

Peanut allergy treatment trials work for 80pc of children  - Now an Australian treatment for peanut allergy has been trialled with ... May is one of thousands of Australian parents with a child who suffers from a ...

Australians Are Trying REALLY Hard To Make Their Weddings Gay -Friendly  - At every Australian wedding, the civil celebrant must read a set of words that ... it is proof there is no such thing as a gay -friendly wedding in Australia .

Perhaps it's not too late to recast ourselves as custodians of Western Australia '  - And the effects on the Western Australian government's finances are ..... But we are not ignorant of the fact that Australia's Aboriginal people view their ...

Money's Aussie visit 'for the kids'  - The charitable funds raised during Mr Mayweather's time in Australia will be ... disadvantaged and needy people and children, including Aboriginal .

Scrap private health rebate'  - If there is a single policy that would help to reduce the level of poverty among the poorest households in Australia , and improve employment ...

South Australia's traditional landowners face investigation over mismanagement  - South Australia's Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands may be facing an investigation by the state's auditor general after a visit by the minister ...

Western technology and Yolngu culture combine to improve school attendance  - Following the rollout of the Australian Government's Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS), local community members were recruited as school ...

Indigenous youth 24 times as likely to be locked up, research shows  - However, Western Australia detained Aboriginal young people at by far the highest rate — 720 per 100,000 young people, compared to an average of ...

The brains behind Australia's coming of age  - As a history of Europeans in Australia , Aboriginal Australians appear as victims of violence, objects of disciplinary and isolationist policies, bereft of the ...

Protect your creative expression - a free workshop for indigenous artists   - Are you an Indigenous artist or involved in the Indigenous creative industries sector? Do you want to find out how to protect your artwork from being ...

NZ farms eyed as 'boltholes' for world's super rich  -  New Zealand farms are being snapped up by the world's super-rich as ... land were being purchased so the rich could flee here should people rise up.

Housing affordability crisis worsens in New Zealand  - Rosemary Goodyear from Statistics NZ told the New Zealand Herald: “It is not only young people who have been affected by the fall in home ...