Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Toi Iti, son of activist Tāme Iti, has toppled Tīpene Marr to take the Kōhi Māori constituency seat on the Bay of Plenty Regional Council. Marr had ... View article...

A Taranaki iwi leader is the first candidate to be selected by the Māori Party as it launches its comeback bid for Parliament. Debbie Ngarewa-Packer ... View article...

The Māori party is looking ahead to next year's general election after selecting Debbie Ngarewa-Packer to contest the Te Tai Hauāuru seat. View article...

The Māori Party is excited by some of the electoral trends emerging from the 2019 Local Government elections. “This election, the commitment and ... View article...

... conducted from 20 to 24 July, National polled at 45 per cent, Labor hit 43 per cent, the Greens 6 per cent, NZ First 3 per cent, Maori Party 1 per cent, ... View article...

It's been billed as a Māori-centric hotel that will be "unlike anything else in the world." The iwi-backed project will also feature a commercial centre and ... View article...

Dr Kyle Eggleton, Northland GP of 16 years and Māori health advocate, will be a DHB newcomer if votes confirm his appointment on Thursday. View article...

Its very name means howling wind in Maori, and the lake lives up to this at times. The wind, funnelled by the steep surrounding hills, can create huge ... View article...

Tasmanian LGBTI equality advocates say they are disappointed the state government has not condemned the federal government's proposed ... View article...

Folau objected at the time to the appointment of Eastman “on the ground of apprehended bias”, partly due to her advocacy for the LGBTI community. View article...

The documentary will yammer the fact that LGBTI-people all over the country are encouraged to take part in Equality Marches all over the country and ... View article...

And for the first time in its 30 years of existence, a person from the LGBTI community is on the list: Marielle Franco. Marielle Franco was a Brazilian ... View article...

The number of free birth certificates being issued to Indigenous and vulnerable Australians has increased ten-fold in the past two years. View article...

The former South Australian AFL player was widely condemned, even by Indigenous elders, and 300,000 people have signed a petition calling for him ... View article...

The 2019 Grand Final of the Mooting Competition of Australia's First ... The competition showcases the advocacy skills of Indigenous law students from ... View article...

Mayor speaks to key indigenous people around Australia for his book, including Northern Aboriginal woman Darlene Mansell, to assist an ... View article...

Australia's first indigenous surgeon, Kelvin Kong, says he is terrified by the McGowan government's plan to let doctors suggest voluntary assisted ... View article...

The rate of Newstart is killing Indigenous Australians, with no prospect of closing the life expectancy gap while the unemployment benefit remains so ... View article...

Australia's rich Indigenous cultures and traditions proved inspiring for PNG Australia Awards scholars at the recent Garma Festival in northern ... View article...

He has West Australian Aboriginal (Nykina) descent through his father, and Torres Strait Islander and Malaysian descent through his mother. View article...

They say he has functioned as a mobilizing media figure for both Māori and Pākehā New Zealanders to engage with the colonial past and present. View article...

Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand. This week he talks to Kiri Nathan, the co-founder ... View article...

The Trust's aim is to publish a great library of literature in te reo Māori, including books for young readers and adults, from New Zealand and around ... View article...

Data from the New Zealand Mortality Collection is for "all deaths" and 10 subcategories: all cancer, assault, cerebrovascular disease, chronic lower ... View article...

Independent Tertiary Education New Zealand is a group representing most private tertiary institutions. Its president Craig Musson said student pass ... View article...

“I don't think you'd speak to any Maori that says New Zealand is perfect with recognition,” Martin said. “We've only just made the decision as a ... View article...

The New Zealand Maori Council calls time on the out of control vaping industry – sends a warning that Council is ready to intervene unless the sector ... View article...

"I am proud of my New Zealand and Maori heritage but it would not sit right with me to be nominated for this prestigious award," Stokes told British ... View article...

... UK over their homophobic words — and they haven't written “some of the most refreshing verses about same-sex attraction in a major label hip-hop ... View article...

The pending supreme court verdict on whether gay and trans people are protected from job discrimination has wide-reaching consequences for ... View article...

Miracle of Love, an Orlando LGBTQ nonprofit, is helping increase the number of bilingual HIV testers to help prevent the spread of ... View article...

The late artist Gilbert Baker is sometimes called the "Gay Betsy Ross" for having sewn and designed the first rainbow flag for the 1978 San Francisco ... View article...

Their ground-breaking approach to supporting LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers has delivered a tangible social impact and it's a pleasure to have ... View article...

... to indigenous populations, young LGBTI people and people on the move, inclusion in education is needed for all learners across different settings. View article...

Punitive laws along with violence and discrimination prevent LGBTI people from fully participating in society and living as their true, authentic selves ... View article...

... Accept LGBTI, and the association for the prevention of domestic violence, have written a letter to the attorney-general asking for the prosecution to ... View article...

The number of free birth certificates being issued to Indigenous and vulnerable Australians has increased ten-fold in the past two years. View article...

Ms Bachelet also touched on Australia's Indigenous relations. "I was shocked to learn that the age of criminal responsibility in Australia is only 10 ... View article...

More than 40 sacred indigenous Australian artefacts held by Manchester Museum in the UK will be returned to their traditional owners as part of a ... View article...

An Aboriginal man lights a fire for an indigenous ceremony as climate ... PERTH, Australia (AP) - Activists blocked major roads and demonstrated in ... View article...

"Indigenous people, including Aboriginal people in Australia, have a ... The Endeavour replica, which is based at the Australian National Maritime ... View article...

WHEN Captain Arthur Phillip sailed the First Fleet into Sydney Harbour in 1788 there were more than 250 indigenous Australian languages spoken, ... View article...

Held in partnership with the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), the four-day Web Series workshop provided networking and ... View article...

Mayrah Sonter has been running her own business for five years now and knows how hard it can be for indigenous operators to break through in this ... View article...

Britain delivered a "statement of regret" to indigenous Maori this week for the killing of nine of their number immediately after Cook's landing, although ... View article...

It aims to advance scholarship and research in Māori and indigenous ... to insights that will support the resurgence of Rongoā Māori in New Zealand. View article...

The value of the large foreign ownership of New Zealand land and forests is raising alarm bells among Maori. A Radio New Zealand investigation ... View article...

Eight New Zealanders associated with Tuia 250 and other events in ... will sail around New Zealand acknowledging the long history of Māori ocean ... View article...

Items can be borrowed or browsed, and include topics such as Māori and Māori local history, NZ fiction, biography, books in te reo, art and architecture ... View article...

... kaupapa Māori category is Dr Ngarino Ellis from the University of Auckland, who is the only Māori art historian teaching in a New Zealand university. View article...

Reflections on Captain James Cook's role in New Zealand history around the ... "Through that event, Maori perspectives were at best marginal and ... View article...

A replica of James Cook's ship was met with Maori protestors as it docked in Gisborne to mark the 250th anniversary of the British explorer's arrival in ... View article...

The commission is this week examining aged care for people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTI people, homeless people ... View article...

Brazil,More than 20 consular offices gathered together to support the LGBTi parade in Rio More than 20 consular officers gathered together to support ... View article...

... Achiume praised the Dutch government for promoting gender equality and the rights of LGBTI people and urged similar efforts to improve racial and ... View article...

Kosovo's LGBTI rights NGOs plan several innovative activities to mark the country's third Pride Week – which will end with a parade on Thursday. View article...

... of older Australians, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTI people and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. View article...

Established in 2009 as the first international cohort of LGBTI funders, GPP is internationally recognized as the primary thought-leader and go-to ... View article...

As a part of the theme “Breaking Through the Backlash: Transformative encounters between LGBTI people and the churches of Africa”, renowned ... View article...

Based on a video of the arrests released by the University of Sydney Socialist Alternative, the National Union of Students LGBTI Officer and University ... View article...

Make sure you know the origins of Aboriginal art for sale in the Northern Territory, Pam Jones advises, as she explores some of the galleries that ... View article...

In Barunga, where high-risk pregnancies are on the rise, Aboriginal health practitioners (AHPs) like Desleigh Shields are in high demand. View article...

During the discussion Kennerley said “Aboriginal elder women” were ... communities but the Australia Day protesters had done “nothing” or “zippo”. View article...

The spike in visitor numbers to the UNESCO World Heritage-listed rock has coincided with school holidays in Australia. The Anangu Aboriginal people ... View article...

It has prompted Australia's industry leaders to call for more action on ... from Sydney to Brisbane (approximately 12 positions);; Aboriginal Hostels ... View article...

She quips about what to call her potential Indigenous ginger-haired ... Tisdell always knew she wanted to talk about being Aboriginal in Australia and ... View article...

... an Aboriginal word meaning “little people who come from the sandhills”). ... Scriven then became a member of the Marionette Theatre of Australia, ... View article...

... and found them off a South Australian island that the mainland aboriginal people called Island of the Dead in honor of their long spiritless ancestors. View article...

In New Zealand, one in five adults has high blood pressure, and this burden is unequal, with Māori being 30 per cent more likely than non-Māori to ... View article...

Gabrielle Baker went along to see how the best in New Zealand's dental ... This included the comment that “Māori as Tiriti/Treaty partners have not ... View article...

New Zealanders in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa (Poverty Bay) will get to witness Māori, Pākehā and Pacific voyaging traditions come together as the Tuia 250 ... View article...

... Aotearoa intentionally killing, raping, and deliberately infecting local Maori with ... Richard Seddon “King Dick” served as the 15th Premier of New Zealand ... for his promotion of New Zealand's interests in the name of imperialism. View article...

... per cent of the dialysis population in Hawke's Bay, but only 12 percent of the 187 kidney transplant recipients in New Zealand in 2017 were Maori. View article...

Te Taru White from Te Arawa Federation of Maori Authorities says it's a reflection of the shortage of capital available to New Zealand owners, ... View article...

... even Local Government New Zealand is saying they need more diversity. ... the chance to give Hauraki its first wahine Māori mayor and councillors. View article...

But New Zealand - or Aotearoa in Maori - had been populated by the Maori ... As the flotilla has travelled around the coast, some Maori tribes have ... View article...

As a creator, Murphy has always included LGBTQ characters and odes to queer culture in his shows. But in The Politician, these distinctive traits of his ... View article...

ILGA ASIA is looking for LGBTI activists to join the training of trainers on UN human rights mechanisms. The training will take place from 2-6 December ... View article...

... last year the Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum installed “We're not going to the mainland” to mark three decades of campaigning for LGBTI rights, ... View article...

This year's LGBTi+ Pride Parade in Rio also celebrated the 40th anniversary of the LGBT movement in Brazil and the 50th anniversary of the ... View article...

This was hailed as a huge step forward for LGBTI rights in Hong Kong, but the case of MK may now test how progressive the Court of Final Appeal's ... View article...

With LGBTI Australians having high rates of suicide and mental illness—especially trans young people at high risk for poor mental health, self-harming ... View article...

The National LGBTI Health Alliance's Samantha Edmonds said some aged care ... systems and service delivery being culturally safe for LGBTI people. View article...

In the lead up to the third Prishtina Pride Parade, which will take place on Thursday morning in Prishtina's city center, LGBTI rights activists have ... View article...

Migrants earn a place in Australia's diverse music landscape ... Australia's rich and deep music history from Indigenous folklores, rhythms, and chants ... View article...

Former head of sustainability at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence Carla McGrath is described as a “proud indigenous Australian woman of ... View article...

Confronting footage of an off-duty South Australian police officer stoning a ... He has previously been praised for his work helping non-indigenous ... View article...

Aboriginal activist and Labor Party politician Ray Gibson (Tony Briggs) ... He still likes to think of himself as an Australian Martin Luther King, even ... View article...

Yumi Stynes reignites Australia Day feud with Kerri-Anne Kennerley .... Aboriginal elder women are desperate for help, and they're not getting it. View article...

New research turns Tasmanian Aboriginal history on its head. The results will help care for ... The same can be said of the first Europeans in Australia. View article...

The family service has employed Aboriginal family support workers for ... "Working with Reconciliation Australia gave us a formal structure to embed ... View article...

Craig Ritchie, from the Australia Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), welcomed the decision as significant not only for ... View article...

Edouard Fritch was invited to New Zealand in recognition of mediator role between Māori communities and the Endeavour crew during James Cook's ... View article...

In the year 2019, some 250 years after he first made contact with Māori at the start of a six-month circumnavigation of New Zealand, it has become ... View article...

Internal dispute within Taranaki iwi to be heard in Māori Land Court ... reject or seek to change a compensation deal on offer from New Zealand ... View article...

A south Auckland general practitioner says the national bowel cancer screening programme now being rolled out will fail Māori. The programme will a ... View article...

... replicated across New Zealand. He drew parallels between Moeke's case and the confiscation of Māori land by the Crown, in particular Ihumātao. View article...

Currently maternal suicide rates in New Zealand are seven times higher per capita than in the United Kingdom, with Maori overrepresented. View article...

“In the wider context of our overall Maori engagement, where my High ... a partnership with Air New Zealand and with three universities for PHD Maori ... View article...

It is a love letter to the many Maori matriarchs who fulfil their roles in a ... She has brought forth from Witi's work the inherently Maori style of oral ... View article...