Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

West Coast residents 'sick of burying people ' after suspected suicides  - The fact that there are more suicides in New Zealand than deaths from drowning and car crashes combined means our fire brigade are more likely to ...

Papua New Guinea: interactive drama as a tool to lessen suffering  - In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, hundreds of people are killed or displaced due to tribal conflict each year. Ongoing violence has caused ...

Give Papua more freedom  - The fact that Papuan people have to risk arrest and jail sentences on treason charges to simply exercise their freedom of expression will only ...

Rates remission policy for Maori land considered  - Some Maori land was listed as abandoned, which allowed rates to be ... a policy was causing "significant hardship for the local Maori population '' and ...

NZ baseballers in training mode ahead of World Champs - Two New Zealand baseball teams are preparing to depart for their ... and includes a surge of ballplayers represented Maori and Pacific Islander ...

Smokefree campaign uses text to help smokers quit  - around 550,000 people smoke daily in New Zealand , which is about 15 percent of the adult population, and the figure is as high as 40% for Maori .

Māori Language Policy  - For its part the New Zealand Māori Council considers the restoration of Māori group housing should be recognised as a necessary step for the revival ...

Home ownership gets much tougher for Maori  - According to figures released by Statistics New Zealand , 42.3 per cent of Maori in Whanganui lived in resident-owned homes - the rest lived in ...