Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Ten ways New Zealand might surprise you - This national festival is a biennial event celebrating Maori traditional ... There's the picture-postcard beauty, but New Zealand is so much more than the ...

Indonesian police make further arrests in West Papua protestors - Over two hundred people were arrested in Jakarta last week at a rally to mark the anniversary of the first raising of the banned Papuan nationalist ...

YMCA head on youth think tank - Acting Youth Minister Anne Tolley has appointed Arama Ngapo-Lipscombe as the Maori community representative on the Partnership Fund Board.

Policy ignores cultural trauma - The Maori Women's Welfare League says the number of Maori children caught up in state care means Maori need to be involved in any policy ...

Parker's support-crew to perform haka if he wins world title - The historical title bout to be staged in New Zealand for the first time in Heavyweight Boxing history will be a significant moment for Parker who has ...

Doctors warn Victoria against legalising euthanasia  - The Government is considering assisted suicide but doctors say expanded palliative care would deliver better results. Professor Peter Hudson from St ...

How can we meaningfully recognise cities as Indigenous places? - The return of land to Indigenous custodians in Australia over the past 20 years is a dramatic shift in Australian land tenure and management. Yet this ...

Bringing social change to indigenous people - Being from Australia , Kate Falconer's interest in indigenous populations in that country began at an early age. As she grew, she began to think about ...

10 things you should know about slavery in Australia - The dark history of forced labour and Stolen Wages is slowly becoming a national conversation, with people sharing their traumatic first-hand ...

Treat Your Eyes With Australia's Most Mesmerising Indigenous Art -  Indigenous Australia is the oldest living culture on earth, so you can imagine the art it bears is as sacred as it is significant. Stories from the Dreamtime ...

Ongoing gross violations of human rights, genocide, ethnocide, ecocide in ' Australia ' - The Gathering was opened by veteran campaigner Denis Walker Nunukel, who was at the 1972 Aboriginal Embasy. He identified the need to issue Bills of Cost against the foreign occupying powers, that is, the governments of the Australian States and Territories, and the Commonwealth of Australia, which are but colonies of Britain and which rule ‘Australia’, not in right of the people, by rather in right of the Crown of England, which is the foreign occupying power.

Indigenous textiles in a contemporary light - The continuing strength and importance of textile practice in the Pacific and Indigenous Australia continues to carry a lot of cultural weight and a place ...

Look up: how policy gaps and failure blind us to what's going on in Indigenous affairs - Cash is critical for survival in remote Australia : it is a key element of the sharing economy, one of the strengths of Aboriginal kinship and sociality.

Keeping Older Workers Engaged Means Fighting Age Stereotypes - Carol Kulik, one of the study's authors and a professor at the University of South Australia , said organizations that implement policies designed to ...

Gay Brisbane schoolboy shared bullying torment with friend day before suicide - A gay teenager broke down in tears the day before his suicide, telling a friend he was afraid of returning to school. Gypsie-Lee Edwards Kennard told ...

South Australia Premier stands before Parliament to apologize to LGBTI people - Jay Weatherill, the Premier of South Australia yesterday stood up in the ... In concluding, he said, ', I spoke to a gay man earlier today and asked him ...

Your Aboriginals are so black up there' - That's just one of the many responses I've heard in Sydney and Brisbane from non- Aboriginal people about indigenous Australians as they learned I ...

Hip hop music video launched in Western Australia - Let's wipe out infections — is the message from a group of Indigenous students who have made a music video about preventing infectious disease.

How can we meaningfully recognise cities as Indigenous places? - The return of land to Indigenous custodians in Australia over the past 20 years is a dramatic shift in Australian land tenure and management. Yet this ...

Popular beach hotel in racism storm - Peter Miller Koncz said he and his wife Kahlia were refused entry at the Palais Hotel on Saturday night because they are indigenous . “When we were ...