Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Salvation Army brings Christmas to less fortunate families - Salvation Army are calling on New Zealanders to step up and help break poverty this Christmas by preparing for the busy festive season ahead of ...

Māori successes to motivate future Māori health leaders -  Māori are under represented among most professional groups who contribute to the health of New Zealanders in addition to holding significant ...

Pillars provide wrap-around social service for 30 Auckland kids -  New Zealand are building prisons at a higher rate per capita than anywhere in the world which means more prisons and more children without parents. Mark Taylor started mentoring a 14-year-old boy six years ago and says this journey has had a huge impact on his life, he says, “You go into it thinking ...

Screens are 'digital cocaine' to children - Dr Nicholas Kardaras - Electronic devices are a normal part of 65% of New Zealand children's daily lives. Addiction psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Kardarashas done extensive ...

Cantabrian picks up national Māori education award - An "outstanding" Canterbury researcher has been awarded a top prize for her tireless contribution to Māori education. Associate Professor Sonja Macfarlane (Ngāti Waewae, Ngāi Tahu), from the University of Canterbury, will be given the Te Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award for 2017 at the annual New Zealand  ...

Primary School Maori Festival kicks off in Rotorua - Soloman also thanked the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute for its sponsorship. The festival has been on the Rotorua calendar for more than four decades and last year about 30 schools took part. When it started, four schools were involved and this year there will be 34 groups taking the stage.

Can the World's Youngest Female Leader Make Her Country a More Compassionate ... - Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand and the world's .... the indigenous Maori (“to think that such a people exists upon the Islands of the ...

Northland artist's "Best Maori " award a bit dated? - The NZ Music awards rightly puts our artists on a pedestal for an evening. It's live, so the potential for chaos is high. And there is always debate about ...

Remote Aboriginal community in the NT signs 99-year lease to control their own land - After 10 years of negotiations, members of the Gumatj clan in the community of Gunyangara in north-east Arnhem Land have signed a 99-year lease ...

Mungo Man: the final journey of our 40000-year-old ancestor - artefacts that were held in collection by the Australian National Museum. ... When I pulled into the Balranald Aboriginal cemetery, Mutthi Mutthi elder ...

Northern Territory royal commission must lead to change - The report is, above all, a terrible indictment of the treatment and plight of Indigenous Australians . As many as 94 per cent of minors in detention in the NT are Aboriginal . Yet, around the time Mr Turnbull announced the judicial inquiry, his Indigenous Affairs Minister, Nigel Scullion, made the astounding ...

Groups urge national youth justice changes - "These must be developed collaboratively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities to ensure that all of Australia's children thrive." The organisations highlight the fact indigenous children make up more than half the number of children in youth prisons across the country.

Lidia Thorpe pursues national park - Some high-profile indigenous advocates including Marcia Langton took to Twitter on Sunday to question whether Ms Thorpe would still pledge allegiance to the state of Victoria and Australia given her stance against constitutional recognition in favour of a treaty recognising indigenous sovereignty.

Youth Justice Shake-Up after Abuse Inquiry in Australia - Most of the teenage inmates in the Northern Territory are Aboriginal Australians , who are significantly over-represented in the justice system. The children who were tear-gassed have said they feared for their lives and still suffer disturbing flashbacks and nightmares. Lawyers said detaining children in ...

After Don Dale, a new path for Indigenous Australians -  The report is, above all, a terrible indictment of the treatment and plight of Indigenous Australians . As many as 94 per cent of minors in detention in the ...

The pillars of First Peoples' communities -  She then briefly outlined the problems the Indigenous Australian women are facing: 'We suffer the worst health in our country, the worst incarceration ...

Greenfields Primary School students blend environment and indigenous culture in artwork - The initiative brought together Noongar Elders, scientists, educators and artists, all sharing their knowledge and stories with students about the value ...

Should we legalise assisted suicide for people with terminal illnesses? - A recent survey asked Australians if they supported a doctor “giving a lethal dose when a patient is hopelessly ill with no chance of recovery and asks ...

Why Muslims' No vote in same-sex marriage survey is no mystery - Is it smart to have a government policy to “celebrate our diversity” by encouraging migrants to preserve their own culture rather than merge with Australia's ? Some on the Left could even wonder now at the wisdom of importing thousands more people from the Middle East who are so set against gay  ..

Religious protections debate could delay marriage equality 'for months' - are pushing for further parliamentary debate around religious protections and parental rights prior to legislating same-sex marriage. Dr Zareh Ghazarian, a political scientist at Monash University, said debate around religious protections before Christmas could delay same-sex marriage in Australia by ...