Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Māori Party want training wheels off - The Māori Party has spent nine years in government, and co-leader Marama Fox believes it's well past time for the training wheels to come off. As part ...

Tool highlights men's health risks - He says efforts to improve the educational achievements of young Maori men would have a positive impact not only on the wellbeing of the tane but on ...

Health of Māori men matters too! - Te Tai Tonga candidate for the Māori Party, Mei Reedy-Taare, is speaking out about Māori men's health in her determination, both politically and ...

Taratahi-Telford off to good start with swell in Maori student numbers - The new Taratahi-Telford relationship has got off to a good start with a swell in student numbers, largely due to a recent influx of Whenua Kura - Maori .

Government view of Maori stuck in past - The Green's Te Tai Tonga candidate Metiria Turei says government still looks at iwi as if they were dealing with a 19th century people. Ms Turei is still ...

Government addled over immigration drug ` -  Mr Peters says Maori and Pasifika are often the first affected by rising immigration because of the competition by migrants for entry level and low wage ...

Students fuse Te Reo Maori with fashion - Portraying more than just words on a shirt is important to a group of Tokoroa High School business studies students. As part of the national Young ...

Scars of Bathurst's declaration of martial law laid bare at commemoration 193 years on - Author Bruce Elder, who wrote Blood on the Wattle, which details the massacres and mistreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788, said martial ...

Greens should shut up and listen to indigenous people - Yet footage of an Aboriginal man stomping on an Aboriginal woman and various other vicious acts — which in my view are far more shocking than that ...

'We are taking our culture out of the museum and into the 21st ... -  Aboriginal dance group Djuki Mala, from a remote island in Australia , has brought a show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Executive producer and ...

Grog bans, not cashless welfare cards, key to tackling violence' - The WA Aboriginal Health Council has criticised the cashless welfare card, ... council is poised to drop all references to January 26 as Australia Day.

Indigenous research success shows value of a good yarn - One program to have avoided these pitfalls is Shooting Stars, an initiative run by Glass Jar Australia – the charity arm of Netball WA – which uses ...

Yarra council votes to cancel citizenship ceremony, ban references to Australia Day - to stop referring to January 26 as Australia Day, to stop celebrating an annual citizenship ceremony on the day and to hold an Indigenous -themed ...

Port Stephens students celebrate National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day - STUDENTS around Port Stephens celebrated National Aboriginal and ... On this day, all Australians can show their support for and learn about the ...

Tiwi Sistagirls shine bright in new doco - The small remote community of the Tiwi Islands has the highest concentration of transgender and gay Indigenous people in Australia . They're known ...

E-cig ban may be responsible for increased smoking rates - But we're left with established, older smokers who can't or won't quit. The strategy of higher prices isn't working for them,” he said, whilst pointing out ...

Are you driving a potential death trap?More than 50000 cars sold between 1999 to 2006 in ... - Up to 50,000 motorists across Australia are driving potential death traps containing a model of airbag renowned for being defective in a crash.

Report finds US, China and the EU have higher standards for air pollution caused by power ... - Half of Australia's power stations are at least 30 years old , the oldest one is ... As power stations get older they often increase their toxic emissions ...

City of Melbourne to campaign for same sex marriage with rainbow Town Hall - THE City of Melbourne will campaign strongly for gay marriage as Australians prepare to vote on the issue in the Federal Government's proposed ...

No coercion, except to follow the law like the rest of us -  It is nonsense for Archbishop Anthony Fisher to suggest that if same-sex marriage becomes law in Australia , religious schools will have to “teach it” ...