Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Kōkiri programme to realise Māori business potential - Kōkiri is a programme that aims to get new Māori endeavours market-ready with assistance from companies such as online accounting software company MYOB, Air New Zealand , and Spark. MYOB New Zealand General Manager Carolyn Luey says that, as largest accounting solutions provider, MYOB ...

Australian woman recites NZ citizenship oath in Māori - An Australian-born woman has become a New Zealand citizen after reciting her oath of allegiance in te reo Māori . Natalie Evans' asked Auckland Council if she could recite her oath at Monday nights ceremony at Auckland Town Hall in te reo, and they agreed to let her to do so. "It is an official language ...

National shrugs off warnings about next election - What's the impact on both New Zealand First and the Greens of being part of government? What's the ... He was surprised Māori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell failed to hold on to his Waiariki seat. But the Māori Party distanced itself from the government during the election campaign. It would have ...

Files show birth of Papua independence struggle -  Another cable written by Ambassador Marshall Green, however, described Papuans as “stone-age” people . Their “horizons are strictly limited,” it said, and they weren't capable of deciding their own future, contradicting other assessments by the embassy of Papuans ' widespread desire for independence ...

Why India is stuck with 157-yr-old LGBT laws - With the exception of South Africa, New Zealand and Australia all these countries are in Europe or the Americas. LGBT . In how many countries is it illegal for people of same gender to form a sexual relationship? Recommended By Colombia. Including India, there are 71 countries that prohibit same-sex ...

Christmas at the Pa outstanding success - We were blessed with a good day, but it was just us entertaining ourselves and doing it very well, and those guys can sing, really proud to be Maori , just outstanding, very natural, no 12-piece orchestra, just them and their guitars and off they go," he says. He's looking forward to working with the new ...

Dunedin Boundary Signs Get the Brand Treatment - Ongoing discussions with the Maori Participation Working Party are leading towards the inclusion of culturally appropriate Maori greetings that are aligned with the local Runaka. Once confirmed, these greeting signs will be added to the scope of boundary city signage work. The now iconic Dunedin logo ...

Australia and New Zealand's indigenous experiences - From treks in the Outback to Maori arts and crafts, Chloe Cann rounds up the varied indigenous cultural experiences on offer for clients travelling to Australia ... After all, it would be a shame to fly to the other side of the planet and not experience the legacy of the Maori people or the Dreamtime stories of ...

My people are still suffering from Australia's secret nuclear testing -  My name is Sue Coleman-Haseldine. I was born into poverty on the margins of Australian society on the Aboriginal mission of Koonibba in 1951. At this time my people were not allowed to vote and we had very few means to be understood, let alone be heard. I was born into one of the oldest living ...

First Aboriginal owned and operated mine in Australian history opens in Arnhem land - The moment marked the opening of the Gulkula mine, the first Aboriginal owned and operated mine in Australian history. The mine will sell its product to Rio Tinto for export to domestic and international customers. Rio Tinto Gove operations general manager Linda Murry said the significance of the ...

Same-sex marriage welcomed by Catholic priest, hopes to officiate weddings on Tiwi Islands -  Australia's support for same-sex marriage is an important step for the relatively large community of Sistagirls, a group of Aboriginal transgender women ... He said it was nice that wider Australia supported same-sex marriage, but there were much bigger issues that the Tiwi Islands needed to address.

Aboriginal Masterpiece in Australia to Raise Money For Kidney Patients - A rare painting by Albert Namatjira, one of Australia's most iconic Aboriginal artists, is to be sold to raise money for kidney patients in remote parts of central Australia . Indigenous people suffer kidney disease at 15 times the national average. Albert Namatjira was a trailblazer. Born in 1902 near Alice ..

Australian Wildlife Conservancy strike deal with Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation to protect ... - An Aboriginal corporation and a conservation group have agreed on a deal to protect thousands of hectares of Kimberley land described as a “lost world”. The Australian Wildlife Conservancy will partner with the Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation to manage 800,000ha of Kimberley land, which ...

Keating speech still powerful 25 years on - The sentiment was echoed by Oxfam Australia's Indigenous Manager Ngarra Murray, who says successive governments have failed to do away with entrenched poverty and inequality. "A quarter of a century on from the Redfern speech, far too many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples live in ...

Nationwide Museum director poses with Milo Yiannopoulos - A council member of the National Museum of Australia has posed for a photo with right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos shortly after he said Aboriginal art was 'crap' and 'really s**t'. Janet Albrechtsen posed for a selfie with Mr Yiannopoulos and Michael Kauter, former deputy campaign director for ...

Will same-sex marriage change anything for transgender Aboriginal Australians ? - The electoral district of Lingiari, which has the largest indigenous population in Australia , also had a significantly lower turnout than any other district, with 50% voter participation, in comparison to the national average of 77%. However the Sistagirls still worked hard on the Yes campaign in their ..

Ageist or safe? New calls for elderly drivers to lose their licences - The show explained that despite the stereotype that older people are worse drivers, it's actually not true. In fact, they're less risky than younger people. While the show debated when the right time is for people to hand in their keys, news reports revealed that many Australians would feel safer without ..

Energy poverty is a social problem that needs to be tackled - It's been quite a year for the demographically inclined. First came the results of the 2016 Census and then if that wasn't enough excitement the Australian Bureau of Statistics published the results of the Household Expenditure Survey. The census operates on a five-yearly cycle while the HES is ...

MPs' 'no' to liberty ushers in new sectarianism - Despite 38.4 per cent of Australians voting No to same-sex marriage and about 62 per cent of Australians wanting protections for religious freedom, large majorities in the federal parliament, and a substantial number of Liberal MPs, rejected the amendments to the Smith bill that guaranteed religious ...

Curb your enthusiasm for legislation - In March, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated there were 24,000 bakers and pastrycooks and 6000 florists in Australia . Let's assume 79 per cent of them voted in the same-sex marriage survey, and 38 per cent voted no, reflecting the overall result. That leaves about 9000 vendors who might ...