Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Tobacco excise duty increases from “robots on a steamroller”: Marewa Glover  - The financial stress being loaded on to people in lower socioeconomic groups, such as Maori women, is, if anything, driving them to smoke more, she ...

Police Involved in Repatriation of Maori and Moriori Ancestral Remains  - On Friday 27 May, New Zealand Police staff will assist Te Papa with the repatriation of Maori ancestral remains which were traded, collected or taken ...

Researchers find new ways to reduce smoking in NZ  - The project aims to reduce the prevalence and initiation of smoking among Māori through the revitalisation of tikanga aukati (imposed restriction) and ...

Watch New Zealand Infantrymen Honor Fallen Troops With This Ancestral War Cry  - In New Zealand, the Maori people have an ancestral war cry with a dance called “haka” that was originally performed by warriors before a battle.

House reverses course on LGBT rights for federal contractors  - House reverses course on LGBT rights for federal contractors ... Openly gay New York Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney returned to attach the measure ...

WA Government urged to fix contaminated water supplies in remote Indigenous communities  - Residents in remote WA communities have urged the State Government to fix their drinking water supplies, some of which have been contaminated ...

How to unlock the traditional science of Indigenous Australians  - The divide between Indigenous and non- Indigenous Australians is still undeniably wide, with Indigenous Australians consistently losing out in health, ...

Indigenous community rebuilds after Lam  - For the first time, building materials for remote houses are being made locally in Northeast Arnhem Land, creating dozens of jobs for indigenous  ...

Half of NT's Indigenous population not enrolled to vote, electoral commission says  - Half of the Northern Territory's Indigenous population is not enrolled to vote in the upcoming federal election, the Australian Electoral Commission has ...

We've been silent on injustice for too long  - Governments around Australia are again playing politics with the lives and liberty of Indigenous people. As a nation, we should have no tolerance for ...

Social media and digital technology use among Indigenous young people in Australia  - The use of social media and digital technologies has grown rapidly in Australia and around the world, including among Indigenous young people who ...

People in Australia were once convicted for being gay . Finally, they have received an apology.  - A change has arrived in the Australian state of Victoria. After decades of living with the shame of a criminal conviction for simply being gay , members of ...

An EPIC step forward for HIV prevention  - to have PrEP listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to ensure that gay men across Australia have access to this game-changing treatment.

Indigenous Australians ' military memorial chosen  - The winning design for a long-overdue memorial for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans has been chosen ahead of its construction in ...

No easy answers to Australia's Aboriginals debates  - I was ranting about the shocking disparity in Australia between indigenous - Aboriginal - people and everybody else. On average, Aboriginal  ...

Aboriginal Australians had innovative axe to grind  -  Professor Sue O'Connor of the Australian National University, whose team ... The findings were published this month in the Australian Archaeology ...

Indigenous Round continues to help Close the Gap  - Goodes also utilised the equivalent round last year to celebrate Indigenous heritage which prompted a significant debate on racism in Australia , and ...

10% of Australia in poverty : Pensioner's pain  - We've known for much of the last decade that 2.5 million people in Australia are living in poverty , and this report today is showing the shameful state of ...

National Indigenous newspaper, the Koori Mail, marks 25 years in print  - After 10 years with the Koori Mail, Ms Moran worked at a few other media outlets before returning this year as the general manager at its headquarters ...

Sales boom in one of NZ's 'most underrated towns'  - Mr Metcalfe said Patea was one of New Zealand's best kept secrets. ... "There's a lot of new people come into town which is really good to see.