Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Kiwi Highlight Māori Names to be Updated on Google Maps - More than 54,000 New Zealanders have taken up the opportunity to pin incorrectly pronounced te reo Māori place names on an online platform ...

New clues in childhood obesity puzzle: Study - They also found this variant was more common in Māori and Pacific children. Previous international research has connected this genetic variant to ...

Living off the land, Maori style - Loughlin, Tuwharetoa Maori of mixed Irish descent, has sole guardianship of this tribal land, giving him the right to forage from it. Five generations of ...

Growing up study cut down by third - It's the first study designed to look at outcomes for Maori , Pasifika, and Asian children. The funding cut mean only 2000 children will be tracked from ...

Mental health key election issue -  She says Maori candidates and MPs are hearing calls for help to lift Maori home ownership rates, better access to healthcare, and ensuring there are ...

Board welcomes increase in visible te reo Māori - The Independent Māori Statutory Board welcomes a raft of new Auckland Council initiatives that will increase visibility of te reo Māori .

Reo progress hinges on vote turnaround - Greens leader James Shaw says it's well past time that every New Zealand school pupil was learning te reo Maori . As the election campaign winds ...

Ngati Mutunga wahine toa laid to rest - That advocacy earned the former Maori Affairs community officer a place on the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission during the 1990s, when the ...

Former Australian prime minister says he was head-butted - A former Australian prime minister who decided two years ago that the people should vote on whether same-sex marriage should be legalized says he ...

Indigenous archives provide window into hidden heritage of thousands of Australians -  Lost in Australia's vast archive collection are records of Indigenous people, places and languages, once not seen as valuable enough to bother ...

First indigenous PhD archaeology graduate - The first indigenous Australian to graduate with a PhD in archaeology will officially toss his cap at a graduation ceremony at Flinders University on ...

Cats are both solid and liquid — and other surprising tidbits of science from the Ig Nobel Awards - Well, it's a traditional wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia potentially, still fairly widespread today both in ...

Incarceration solutions lie within communities -  Aboriginal people make up 27 percent of Australia's adult prison population, despite representing only three percent of the nation's total population, ...

Kim Scott wants to reclaim Aboriginal stories and languages - He also studies indigenous languages and is equally as passionate in teaching us about the languages used in Australia before white colonisation ...

Brazil must protect its remaining 'uncontacted' indigenous Amazonians - Unlike indigenous lands elsewhere in the country, which have been ... of the declaration, with just 11 abstentions and four votes against 

How to say g'day in your local Indigenous language - Des Crump said there were about 120 to 130 Indigenous dialects in Queensland and about 250 distinct languages across Australia or 750 including ...

$1.1 Million Payment Will Not Stop Ms Dhu's Family From Seeking Justice Over Death In Custody - It's aimed at trying to bring about a just outcome not just for the Dhu family, but Indigenous people throughout Australia , who continue to suffer ...

A full vision of the hell of Australian race relations' - Pace is no substitute; nor is violence or big swooping aerial shots or slow-motion action. The day dawns hot on this particular Australia Day in the ...

The First 50 Refugees From Australia's Detention Camps Will Be Settled In The United States - The deal between the US and Australia came under immense public ... There have been reports of violence and abuse at the detention facilities since ...

Fight homophobia : the Aboriginal people express their needs - They are part of the project I have the right to love who I want! put forward by the Coalition, with funding from the office of the fight to the homophobia of ...