Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Bachelor NZ's only Māori contestant eliminated - Mariana Morrison, a granddaughter of Lady Kuia Morrison and the late Sir Howard Morrison, spoke to Kawe Kōrero Reporters about her short time on the show. She says, her whanau have reacted positively from her part in the production and it didn’t really phase her being the only Māori on the show. “I was just there to find love. I wasn’t really bemused by anything else that was going on.”

New Zealand and China plan to expand free-trade deal - New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English said the 9-year-old deal had been a huge success and resulted in trade between the countries tripling. He said an upgrade to the agreement would expand trade further, and that talks would begin next month. Li also praised the deal, saying it was the first that China had signed with a developed nation and remained the most advanced. He said the deal helps send a signal to the world. "It's important to the peace and stability of the region and beyond," he said. New Zealand hopes that a renegotiated agreement would allow it to sell more dairy products to China, while China also hopes to sell more goods in New Zealand and erase a small trade deficit. The original deal imposes tariffs on certain New Zealand products sold in China after limits are reached.

Chinese Premier received in New Zealand with traditional ceremony - Li was received by New Zealand's governor general with a traditional Maori Hongi, or nose rub. Then, Li and his wife Cheng Hong watched a ...

How a jail joke 'turned my life around' - Mr Mundine, then in his 20s, was talking to a group of indigenous inmates when they joked about serving a life sentence between them. “It was a huge ...

Violent dispossession at hands of police central to indigenous case for change -  Indigenous leaders yesterday invoked violent forced dispossessions in the far north Queensland community of Mapoon half a century ago as a ...

EU migrants keep benefits after Brexit - EU migrants who have come to Britain will continue to be paid child benefit after Brexit to send to their families back home, under plans sent to ...

Some thing are not for sale' Merkel warns UK to expect no favours in Brexit talks - We will ensure that Brexit does not happen to the detriment of Europe, that Britain remains a partner of the union but that, necessarily, it will pay the ...

Genius Behind Suicide Squad Claims Trump Has 'Perfect Genes' And Doesn't Eat McDonald's - US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the Trump appointee also known as one of the executive producers of the Oscar-winning (*shudder*) film Suicide Squad , was interviewed by Axios's Mike Allen on Friday, and he had some insane things to say about the US president.

Experts alarmed by MD suicide rate in Australia -  Australian doctors are calling for a campaign to fight mental illness in the medical profession, after it was revealed that four junior clinicians had taken ...

China, Australia work together to develop Asia-Pacific trade - For China and Australia, the stability and prosperity of the region relies on access to the free market and the global economy. "Given the less than desirable global economic recovery, the push-back against globalization, rising protectionism, heightened geopolitical rivalry and local conflicts, the existing international order and system is being called into question," Li said in a signed article published Wednesday on The Australian, a leading national newspaper. In fact, China as well, faces its own trade challenges. Its free trade agreement with Australia runs at a deficit, with the Aussies exporting more and importing less than China. 

Lodgings versus lifestyle: Can older Australians have it all? - Home is where the heart is for many older Australians . Stephen Hardy weighs up their desire to keep the family home with the challenge of funding ...

Australia values the rights of bigots more than the lives of Aboriginal people - The furore over Bill Leak's death, and the effect it had on the RDA shows again that the dominant class do not value Aboriginal life, writes AMY ...

Closing the Gap: PM overturns Government's opposition to target Indigenous imprisonment - Despite making up just 3 per cent of the general population, about a quarter of Australia's prison population is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

Race-hate inquiry blocks indigenous group -  Labor and the Greens wanted the Aboriginal Legal Service to give ... change could put Australia in breach of its international human rights obligations.

Undertaker buries his son as Aboriginal suicides continue in remote WA town - The West Australian mining town of Leonora is a community in a constant state of mourning. In the past 18 months alone, six young Aboriginal people ...

The Coming Back Out Ball: being out and proud and older in Australia - Instead it is a cultivation of high camp and community spirit for a very specific audience: LGBTI elders. The Coming Back Out Ball, which will premiere ...

LGBTI groups cheer Republican failure to repeal Obamacare -  LGBTI groups are cheering a failure of the Republican-led House of Representatives to get enough support for a replacement plan. House Speaker ...

Anti-gay Caribbean pastors urge Trump to end push for LGBT rights - Randy Berry, the U.S. State Department's special envoy for the human rights of LGBTI persons, will keep his role under the current administration, the ...

There is method to Peter Dutton's madness on marriage equality - Peter Dutton working to smooth the way for gay marriage? ... having complained for years that Australia was ignoring the issue, suddenly getting all ...

Whakatau to welcome new Māori students to Ara - This represented 12% of the overall Ara domestic student population, which is higher than the general Māori population in Canterbury at 8%. The Ara ...