Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Healing art: The traditional Maori poupou at the Wairau Hospital chapel - Museums and galleries are great, but there's a little chapel in Blenheim decorated with some of the region's finest woodwork. David James reports. If...

With friends like Hone, who needs enemies? - With less than three months until the election, Hone Harawira has delivered another blow to the Māori Party's flagship policy of Te Ture Whenua Māori  ...

Papua New Guinea votes, evaluates Peter O'Neill government - Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, who took office with his People's National Congress after the 2012 elections, campaigned on delivering key infrastructure ...

Why is Whanganui asthma city? - researcher, said the health board areas most affected by asthma seemed to be those with a high Maori population and/or low socio-economic areas.

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Saturday recap : Māori | NZ

Saturday recap : Aboriginal Community

New school teachers in far west NSW learn a lesson from Aboriginal community members - Primary school teacher Natalie Elliott started working at Broken Hill this year after almost two decades of teaching, including at remote Indigenous  ...

One-third of police stations set up under NT 'intervention' sitting empty - has heard that since 2007, youth convictions for traffic and vehicle offences have doubled in the NT and added to Indigenous imprisonment rates.

Six Australian films set for world premieres at MIFF - 16 per cent included Indigenous themes and/or characters (including Bran Nue Dae), and nearly 7 per cent had Indigenous creative principals.

Mutitjulu, the community that was ground zero for the NT Intervention, ten years on - The Intervention saw the Commonwealth Government withhold 50% of welfare payments from Indigenous recipients, banned alcohol and ...

Our military could be making an actual difference to a real threat - Ultimately Australia responded to Washington's request with a token ... currently engaged in training and mentoring indigenous Afghan forces who appear ... Our policy makers are constrained by a pernicious 'Little Australia ' mindset.

Australia's founding document should not embody 'racist past', Pat ... - Labor Senator and Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson is demanding "the stubborn stains in our racist Constitution" be removed.

Lawyers call for legislative protection for Indigenous artists - An Australian arts law body has spoken out against the “prolific” appropriation of Indigenous arts and crafts, and urged the government to step in.

Top university post for former High Court judge - In the early 1970s he chaired the Justice Committee of the New Era Aboriginal Fellowship and the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia from ...

Brisbane, Melbourne city councils unimpressed by Hobart's Australia Day date change motion - Hobart City Lord Mayor Sue Hickey, who led the push for change, said Australia Day should not be on a date that many indigenous people regarded ...

Our country doesn't recognise Indigenous people enough': Buddy Franklin's wife Jesinta Campbell ... - And in the new edition of InStyle Magazine, Jesinta Franklin (nee Campbell) says Australia 'doesn't recognise Indigenous people enough.'.

Expert advice: making the most of Australia's Northern Territory - When people think of Australia's Northern Territory they tend to picture the magnificent monolith of Uluru or the ancient aboriginal rock art of Kakadu ...

Pride In London's first-ever TV ads are sure to make you cry - On the day, 50 special guests and supporters of LGBTI community will take over all continuity announcements on all of the broadcaster's channels, ...

TV star goes transphobic after being compared to Caitlyn Jenner - His name was trending on Twitter in Australia for most of the day. ... Pride in Sport (PIS) is Australia's first and only sporting inclusion program ... Its vice-president Andrew Purchas told Gay Star News he was disappointed with ...