Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Wananga looks at NZ Wars legacy - Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi and Te Runanga o Ngati Awa have teamed up to present a symposium on the wars between Maori and colonial ...

Te Puea refines homeless project - has signed agreements with other social agencies as it attempts to develop new ways to tackle the needs of homeless Maori and Pasifika whanau.

Why learning te reo Māori doesn't have to be a political act - Among nine guests, five languages were spoken: Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and Māori . At different points in the evening, it was not ..

Enough with the MMP catastrophising. The system is working just fine - National, for example, needed the Māori Party to remain in parliament. If it had been more alert to the issues of poverty championed by the Māori Party, ...

Thor: Ragnarok' Director Taika Waititi Says He Filled The Film With Cool Aussie Easter Eggs - Some of those “little things” that make the film Australian include casting Indigenous Australian and Māori actors, meeting with traditional owners for a ...

A universal story told in an Indigenous way:' Maori anthology tale Waru opens ImagineNative film fest -  Maori stories have been some of New Zealand's biggest box office successes, but it's time for female Maori stories to shine, say two of the filmmakers ...

All Indonesians are migrants': Tracing the origins of Indonesia's peoples through genetics - Meanwhile in the eastern part of Indonesia we found haplogroups Q and P. These two haplogroups are unique to people of Papua and Nusa .

Northland to become more diverse as population multiplies - The population increase for Maori in Northland is expected to be the biggest of all ethnic groups. Statistics NZ is predicting an additional 21,200 Maori  ...

Indigenous prisoner numbers to jump - By 2025 one in two Australian prisoners will be Aboriginal unless generational disadvantage is addressed now, a prison reform expert warns.

It's hard to imagine the family of a white artist being treated like Albert Namatjira's - But it should not be at all surprising given the Commonwealth of Australia's historic and ongoing treatment of its Indigenous people – even those it has ...

How Aussies Beat the Odds To Build The Trans- Australian Railway - Ooldea was part of the lands of the Kokatha people, serving as an axis for Indigenous trade and a sacred water source for thousands of years before ...

Australia launches revenge porn reporting tool -  Australia has set up the first national reporting tool to help victims of revenge porn. Revenge porn, or image-based abuse, is the sharing of explicit ...

Australia needs to clean up its act, warn NGOs - But Oxfam, Amnesty International and the Human Rights Law Centre say Australia's own treatment of refugees and indigenous people leaves a lot to ...

Adani's Australia Story: What's the Fuss All About? - As the Adani project becomes a symbol of Australia's future, The Wire .... In Australia , native title law is a recognition that 'some indigenous people ...

Australia wins seat on powerful United Nations Human Rights Council - Ms Bishop said Australia's primary focus on the Council would be the empowerment of women, indigenous rights, and pushing for the abolition of the ...

High school students abuse queer Indigenous writer after her poem was in their exam - A queer Aboriginal writer has copped a barrage of racist abuse from high school students in Australia after one of her poems featured in their end of ...

Robin Hood in reverse — how companies fleece the poor to pay the better off - The South Australian Council of Social Service studied 10 examples of what it labels “ poverty premiums” paid in electricity bills, telecommunications, ...

Suicide migration fears intensify over planned euthanasia laws - Fears of suicide migration from other states caused by ambiguity in ... “You read the legislation (and) it means that any Australian resident willing to ...

Two-thirds of Australians have voted in same-sex marriage postal survey -  Australia's support for same-sex marriage had hovered between 60 and 65 per cent for the past five years, and Mr Brady hopeful the figure will be ...

Australia launches website to report revenge porn in 'world first' -  Australia has launched an online portal to report revenge porn, with ... with one in three people who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual falling victim.