Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Cross-party report maps out climate change scenarios - 35 MPs from across the political divide are backing the report, released today, that maps out the way for New Zealand to reach the target. New Zealand has already signed up to the Paris Agreement, which has an emissions reduction target of 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Uncertainty hangs over the deal after US President Donald Trump dismissed climate change as a hoax during his presidential campaign and vowed to withdraw the United States from the agreement. Vivid Economics produced the report for GLOBE New Zealand - the group of MPs.

Taura Whiri role widens as Te Matawai emerges - All of a sudden we've gone from focusing primarily on Maori communities to promoting the language to wider New Zealand , to encouraging ...

War of wordsover alleged Māori privilege - It's the latest campaign by the NZ lobby group against Māori privilege since they campaigned for the closing of the Waitangi Tribunal and abolishing ...

Family violence summit to take place in Wellington - Adams says, “We know that family violence is a significant and complex issue in New Zealand , with Police responding to an incident every five ...

Labour's Māori electorate MPs take names off party list - None of Labour's Māori electorate MPs will stand on the party list, saying they ... Leader Andrew Little said this was a direct challenge to the Māori Party, ... the strongest, organised political voice of any political party in New Zealand .

An Indigenous community in Queensland is working to rebuild one of the country's first Aboriginal ... - The BerambahPpotters is re-forming, 30 years after it closed. And locals from Cherbourg in the state's south-west hope it'll again put their artwork on ...

A high rate of Indigenous child removal in the Northern Territory has led to suggestions another ... - Families are questioning whether protective services are prioritising indigenous children's needs. Muriel Bamblett is the ambassador for the Family ...

Guaranteed Indigenous parliamentary representation – it's time? - Dominic O'Sullivan There is a case for guaranteed Indigenous parliamentary representation argues a Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic in an ...

Why retire? Understanding the urge for doctors to work past 65 - In Australia in 2014, nearly 10 per cent of the medical workforce was over the ... The survey was sent to 6000 Australian doctors aged 55 and older in ...

Why Indigenous Australia will reject a minimalist referendum question - If the politicians have cooked up a "done deal" for mere minimalism on constitutional recognition, Aboriginal people will say no. Substantive reform, or ...

Aborigines were isolated from each other for tens of thousands of years - For example, a team of scientists has reconstructed the history of Australian Aboriginals . About 50,000 years ago, sea levels were so low that ...

Bill Leak's truth for all beats sensitivity of a few - The Australian has dominated coverage of Aboriginal affairs for three decades, something acknowledged widely by Aboriginal leaders. If you doubt it, ...

Indigenous leaders play hardball on recognition - This body would likely be elected, with responsibility for giving parliament input on laws affecting indigenous Australians — input parliament would ...

Three changes the Turnbull Government has made to Australia's Multicultural Statement - statement includes British and Irish settlers as being part of the makeup of 'multicultural Australia ', not just ethnic minorities and indigenous people.

Drop In Genital Warts Among Indigenous Youth Shows Vaccine Is Working -  Australian researchers have found a drop in diagnoses of genital warts in young Aboriginal women and men, hailing successful vaccination against ...

Students take indigenous perspective on legal system - The students were surprised to learn that while Australia's indigenous population is only about 2 percent of the country's population, they make up ...

When contemporary art meets aboriginal traditions, a remarkable show follows - Here, the “dot'' paintings typically associated with aboriginal work are ... In Australia , aboriginal women have been “officially” painting only since the ...

Conservative majority in 12 Coalition seats back same-sex marriage vote in 2017 - Voters in some of the most conservative seats in Australia overwhelmingly support legalising same-sex marriage in 2017, according to a decisive new ...

Australia Inc told to keep out of gay marriage debate -  Australian business leaders on Monday defended their right to campaign for same-sex marriage following calls by two government ministers for them ...

Customers stop visiting Australian man's cafe after finding out he's gay - Jay Horne, the co-owner of Paradiso Cafe in Cairns, Australia , found out that a couple who had been 'regulars' at his business for the last eight ...