Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

I realised I never was able to help one child': where the justice system fails - Cathy McLennan threw herself into the heart of the justice system, fighting on behalf of Indigenous clients, only to emerge with a stark conclusion.

Diving into defining moments of Australian Indigenous civil rights with the Freedom Rides - An ugly splash in Australia's history will be remembered today in the regional NSW town of Moree. A swimming pool that once segregated Aboriginal  ...

Labor to establish national caucus to increase Indigenous representation - Mr Shorten said for over a century there has been an under-representation of Indigenous Australians in the parliaments and decision-making forums ...

Could language revival cure diabetes? - The multidisciplinary study hopes to change the way that governments all over the world, not just in Australia , approach health issues in Indigenous  ...

8 war heroes you didn't learn about in school - After Indigenous people were increasingly pushed out of the main settlements he ... was born about 1870 in the Kimberley region of Western Australia .

Failed 'closing the gap' the least of worries – hidden are more shocking crises - The latest Closing The Gap report reveals that Australia is failing six of seven measures. The closing of the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal  ...

Indigenous art policy reversal - The Art Gallery of Western Australia is putting indigenous art permanently back on the gallery's walls in response to demand by overseas visitors and ...

Aboriginal dance performance Our Corka Bubs just for babies - Its creator, renowned South Australian Aboriginal choreographer Gina Rings, said Our Corka Bubs, drew its inspiration from Ngarrindjeri storytelling, ...

Incredible portraits show heavily tattooed members of one of New Zealand's most powerful gangs ... - THE tough and tattooed faces of one of New Zealand's most powerful ... “I want people not to judge them for who they are, but to ask why gangs are so ...

The not-so-nice side of New Zealand : Notorious Maori 'Black Power' gang is captured in striking ... - They are one of New Zealand's most infamous gangs with members ... joining a gang was often seen as a solution to the problems people faced.

High rate of acute pancreatitis in NZ -  New Zealand has one of the highest rates of acute pancreatitis, with Maori and Pacific people being more vulnerable to diseases of the pancreas.

Harawira tries again - The latest is the proposed marriage between Mana's Hone Harawira and the Maori Party, the group he divorced with such biting acrimony back in ...

Pancreas disease hits Maori and Pacifika - New Zealand has one of the highest rates of acute pancreatitis in the world with Mori and Pacific people at more than double the risk of developing ...

Kawenata a chance for kaupapa Maori agenda -  Mana movement president Lisa McNab says the kawenata signed yesterday with the Maori Party is the way to get an independent Maori voice back ...

Maori -Mana deal paves way for Hone -  Faced with queries about the impact of the Maori -Mana nonaggression pact, he punted for the distant future. Would National continue its long-standing ...

Huge casualty rate among NZ Pioneers - There was another issue to consider in that the Maori population was only recovering, following European settlement, from an all-time population low ...

Prison to wellbeing to education and work – transforming lives - The Labor Party has at least committed to the Custody Notification Service. I have written widely about this service – and if implemented in Western Australia it will save lives – and reduce the sentencing rate. It mandatorily provides a stout advocate, highly trained, to every First Nations detainee immediately after their arrest. Where this service has been applied in NSW and the ACT it has led to zero deaths in police custody. During the 2015/16 stretch Western Australia reported six unnatural deaths in custody, the nation’s highest total rate. But a Custody Notification Service in Western Australia would provide support for an individual from soon after their arrest. It would provide vital health, welfare, legal support and psychosocial validation. The CNS has also led to lower sentencing rates in NSW and the ACT

Midnight Oil are re-forming but Garrett's power and passion still questionable - For example, they used words of apology to the Stolen Generations to assuage guilt and disguise the dispossession and indigenocide of Aboriginal  ...

First-ever cases of obesity in Arctic peoples as noodles replace traditional diet - Alexey Titovsky, regional director for science and innovation, said: 'It never happened before that the small local indigenous peoples of the north ...

Language as identity: Native Indian tribes and the revitalisation movement in the US - Overall, assimilationist education has left behind many Indigenous people worldwide; evidently, they are less-educated than their non-Indigenous ...