Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

More people being cremated leads to falling revenue for cemeteries  - The council was also considering the impact of a review of how people are buried in New Zealand . The rules regarding funerals and burials could be ...

A Potentially Dangerous New Model for Saving the Environment  - Conservation is important to New Zealanders ; a recent study showed it is at the heart of Kiwi identity. But so is dairy, meat, fruit, and wool production.

Maori turn statistics around  - Bridget Robson, the associate dean Maori at Otago School of Medicine in Wellington, is one of the authors of a report that looked at health, education ...

23-year-old has a beer with the mayor thanks to rangatahi mentoring programme  - He went through in the programme in 2015 with Tori Koroheke, who spoke at the meeting about how it made her embrace her Māori background for ...

Otorohanga youth desperate for better jobs  - There was no hesitation in putting the challenge to Prime Minister John Key during his visit to the King Country, where he met with Māori youth and ...

Poroti locals welcome water bottling plant  - Only yesterday the Waitangi Tribunal announced that it will hear the second stage of water claims with the New Zealand Maori Council indicating that ...

Stars bright and gloomy in Waikato show  - An exhibition at Waikato Museum to coincide with Matariki will examine how Maori understood the night sky and how that knowledge is being ...

US students experience tikanga Māori on the high seas  - A group of students from the United States tested the water on a new international student experience project being introduced by the international ...

Ocean Sanctuary Threatens Maori Constitutional Rights, Say New Zealand Indigenous Leaders  - Te Ohu Kaimoana — a statutory authority created to look after all Maori fishing rights — has filed a legal suit in the New Zealand High Court ...

Australia , Canada and other economies are entering the billion-dollar medical cannabis industry  - A worker harvest buds of marijuana in a medicinal cannabis farm, approved for medical use and under the supervision of the government's agricultural ...

Proportion of young people under supervision in NT highest in nation  - Indigenous youth were over-represented in the number of children on ... Principal legal officer at the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency ...

ABC failing to reflect racial diversity of modern Australia  - ABC failing to reflect racial diversity of modern Australia , says Mark Scott ... At 30 June 2015, 2.28% of ABC staff were Indigenous , exceeding the 2% ...

After years of hosting a notorious refugee camp for Australia , Papua New Guinea says, Enough  - The saga of Australia's controversial offshore refugee detention centers ... Five suicide attempts were reported in the past few days, and two women ...

Reaganomics is Literally Making Americans Kill Themselves  - Thirteen out of every 100,000 people now kill themselves, making suicide one of ... a strong connection between right-wing economic policies and suicide . ... Another study, this time out of Australia , discovered a similar pattern in that ...

Thousands of overseas students in extreme financial hardship in Australia : expert  - For thousands of international students living in Australia , extreme financial hardship leaves them struggling to afford a decent meal, the expert says.

A Stronger Identity, And A Personal Tribute To The Late, Great Tiga Bayles - I was a shy 14 year-old Noongar girl who was ashamed of who I was when I got the opportunity to do a school-based traineeship at Triple A Training.

Gay couple win custody battle against Thai surrogate mother  - A same-sex couple have won a legal battle in Thailand against the ... Thai surrogate mother even as his parents took his twin sister back to Australia .

How Australia should recognise its Aboriginal people in the Constitution  - There has been a lot of discussion over the years about the lack of recognition in the body of the Australian Constitution, but a survey of hundreds of ...

Cultural awareness promotes better relationships between Indigenous Australians and police  - It's important that police understand cultural protocols and cultural traditions that [ Indigenous Australians ] still carry and have carried for thousands of ...

Who are Australia's feminist TV heroes? - Lui, who won an Australia Council Dreaming award and the Belvoir's Balnaves Indigenous Playwright Award in 2012, is a powerful advocate for the ...