Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Māori health is not just a Māori problem, IronMāori founder Heather Te Au ... “Māori are twice as likely to face discrimination in health, Māori are less likely ... on average the poorest health status of any ethnic group in New Zealand. View article...

In the same year, Māori were approximately 51% of the total prison ... However, some New Zealanders are simply not concerned by this apparent ... View article...

New Zealand voted to change its electoral system from first-past-the-post to a proportional system in 1993. .... Twenty-two per cent are Maori. And the ... View article...

Māori are in the spotlight at a hui in Manukau today where Water Safety New Zealand and the Accident Compensation Corporation will discuss what's ... View article...

Māori Affairs Minister meets with Australian counterpart for the first time ... New Zealand's Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta has met with ... View article...

From a Maori perspective they learned cultural safety, and where and why it was developed. The language and values are threaded throughout the ... View article...

Minister for Maori Development Nanaia Mahuta said it was another example of working alongside the Parihaka community to improve their ... View article...

Minister for Maori Development Nanaia Mahuta said this investment is a further example of working alongside the Parihaka community to improve ... View article...

Strip-Searches of Protesters Renew Issue in Australia ... "It's predominantly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are criminalized, ... View article...

Spirit, by Australia's Bangarra Dance Theatre, is a rich theatrical experience that makes the cultural history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

The extent of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia is harrowing. A 2018 report stated that Indigenous Australians ... View article...

And here was the chance for the prime minister to state his own position on the aspirations of Aboriginal people to have a voice in Australian affairs. View article...

An Indigenous activist says water is being stolen from the First Nation ... to speak about the impact of Australia's crippling drought on the Indigenous ... View article...

For over 75 years, cultural items handcrafted by Australian Aboriginal peoples rested quietly at the Illinois State Museum (ISM), cared for by museum ... View article...

A NEW healthy lifestyle program aimed at helping indigenous Australians at risk of developing type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease is coming to ... View article...

When that initiative took effect in 2013, NSW became the first place in Australia to start allocating decision-making powers to Aboriginal communities. View article...

The haka is a centuries-old ceremonial Maori dance that has hundreds of varieties. ... It reflects the multicultural nature of modern New Zealand. View article...

Te Minita Whanaketanga Māori Minister for Māori Development ... the wars and conflicts within Aotearoa between the Crown and Māori, and was held ... View article...

The Government's decision to give a foreign-owned forestry company unfettered access to New Zealand land highlights the hypocrisy of their ... View article...

The Māori Inquiry into Oranga Tamariki led by Whanau Ora is calling for ... 100 per cent of New Zealand's emissions will be on the path downwards. View article...

The study, led by Unitec Professor Jenny Lee-Morgan and funded by Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, looked at language efforts in Air New Zealand, ... View article...

Māori leader Mike Smith has shot the first arrow in a global war between ... Launched on Friday 1 March, 2013, the 'TheDailyBlog.co.nz' unites New ... View article...

... to let him trample all over the really good relationships that had been built up over that time between Pakeha and Maori and Pakeha in Tauranga. View article...

"People still think that it's just a Maori issue, but it's not, everyone is affected by violence but when you fix the issues with us, then we fix the issues with ... View article...

As a gauge of Australian contemporary art, the annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAAs) have become key; ... View article...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people are 17 ... detention and 10 times more likely to be in out-of-home care in Australia. View article...

Barramundi is an Aboriginal word possibly from the Darambal or Gangalu language from along the Fitzroy River west of Rockhampton. They used it to ... View article...

It's got lovely historical buildings that are quite unique to New Zealand and obviously the river, our awa, and that's important to Maori people here ... View article...

The New Zealand Wars, or land wars, were battles between the Crown and some ... Minister for Maori Crown Relations Kelvin Davis will be part of a ... View article...

Wepiha Health Co is a newly-created entity led by Maori clinical researchers and academics, agriculturalists and leading pharmacists, which is ... View article...

The New Zealand Maori Council has once again questioned the Minister involved in approving another deal that has seen a foreign owned company ... View article...

To many New Zealanders the link between remand and the presumption of innocence may not be necessarily clear. Let me explain. When a person ... View article...

Hundreds of Māori toa, warriors, have given Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Māori ministers a fierce welcome to Owae Marae in Waitara for the ... View article...

England's players revealed that Eddie Jones was behind the plan to counter New Zealand's traditional Maori challenge in order to show they were ... View article...

“This is an opportunity for the voices and stories of Maori living with a physical or intellectual disability to be heard. No more shall our peoples only live ... View article...

... dominance by white capital, race, class and personal relationships that crisscross the human complexities of bisexual, race and LGBTI dynamics. View article...

Up next on the group's agenda is a town hall meeting to discuss LGBTI politics, with Safe Schools founder Roz Ward joining the event via Skype. View article...

The government is being asked to consider more gender-neutral bathrooms in public buildings, as part of a new strategy to improve the lives of LGBTI ... View article...

"There is this discrepancy between perception and reality and LGBTI people do not report this discrimination because they don't trust the local ... View article...

The 32 LGBTI rights organizations that formed Cameroon's human rights watchdog group, the Unity Platform, gathered recently in Yaoundé to review ... View article...

On the other hand, women, young people, persons with disabilities and members of the LGBTI community did not evoke the same feelings, with rates ... View article...

The Military Pride Ball celebrates the magnificent contribution to Defence capability by people with diverse sexuality and gender. Proudly sponsored ... View article...

Australia offers some of the best glamping in the world, thanks to our ability ... At 20,000 square kilometres, Kakadu is Australia's largest land-based ... but was raised by her father and an Aboriginal woman after her birth mother left. View article...

In Peru, mortality among indigenous children under 5 years is over three times .... Australia's National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health plan ... View article...

... flowering of indigenous language revitalisation across the country,” Professor Karskens, who researches Australian colonial history at the University ... View article...

Balgo, Western Australia, a remote Aboriginal community, located in the south-east Kimberley approximately 1100 miles NE of Perth and 560 miles ... View article...

Hundreds of tourists flocked to Uluru Friday for one last chance to scale the sacred red monolith ahead of a climbing ban long-sought by Aboriginal ... View article...

I arrived in Australia's Top End against the backdrop of 'The Northern Territory Emergency Response'. Or, as it would come to be known: 'The ... View article...

Almost two centuries on, many families in Western Australia's south-west ... Numbers vary over how many Aboriginal men, women and children lost ... View article...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people are 17 ... “Victoria and South Australia have established state commissioners that ... View article...

"People still think that it's just a Maori issue, but it's not, everyone is affected by violence but when you fix the issues with us, then we fix the issues with ... View article...

In 2015, Commissioner Mike Bush admitted there was a bias among police against Māori and that they needed to work hard to address the issue. View article...

The decision proved controversial, particularly among Māori who have suffered under colonisation. After 250 years, Māori make up more than half of ... View article...

Political commentator Tau Henare said, "It's been good and more power to the the Maori community to say, 'hey we're here and we're part of the ... View article...

Before them, the hill was a pā site of Ngāti Apakura, but the 1863 Confiscation Act banished Māori from their land south of the Puniu River. Militia from ... View article...

Iriaka Ratana was New Zealand's first Maori woman MP. “Hilda Ross and Iriaka Ratana were not only inspirational leaders, they were remarkable for ... View article...

“In our role as Maori police officers, we bring everything to our mahi. It's not just about our reo (language), it's about everything that encompasses ... View article...

Generations of Maori leaders and, for the most part, well-meaning politicians have struggled to make sense of an ugly and brutal confrontation ... View article...

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Sí, Acepto (“Yes I accept” in Spanish) formally launched in August and includes ads that feature LGBTI Costa Ricans' relatives, friends and teammates. View article...

Labor senator Jenny McAllister and shadow assistant treasurer Stephen Jones said the revelation was reminder of LGBTI Australians being 'ignored' ... View article...

LGBTI community took her words in the wrong way. Cyrus had to issue a statement clarifying her thoughts about her previous statement. The singer ... View article...

A draft Religious Discrimination Bill was released in August and was criticised by activists for allowing discrimination against LGBTI people on the ... View article...

Indigenous Australians have been fishing and eating giant freshwater prawns from creeks across the Top End for thousands of years. View article...

Glover painted Aboriginal people into his artwork, even though they had been forced from the area by the time he claimed a land grant in 1831. View article...

The cost of late intervention for Indigenous children hurts Australian ... In 2014 when the then commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People ... View article...

But Australia's leading child psychologist says it's “totally unacceptable”. The pre-school students at Kelly's Place Children's Centre in Crows Nest ... View article...

The Coalition of Aboriginal and TorresStrait Islander Community Controlled Peak ... ProfessorIan Anderson, Deputy CEO of the National Indigenous Australians ... It is critical that Aboriginal andTorres Strait Islander people across the ... View article...

The project, led by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, exists to return cultural heritage material, Simpson said. View article...

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's (AIHW) NT hearing health ... on average it affects 12 per cent of people in Aboriginal communities. View article...

Uluru climb closure 2019: Why these Australians flocked to climb the rock ... "Most people are actually here out of some sort of respect for Aboriginal ... View article...

Many of the waka of the Māori migration sailed into Waitematā. "The portrayal of waka arriving into the City of Sails is a great way to connect the ... View article...

White, who works with his wider whānau and iwi on social initiatives, says it is important Māori continue to help lead the change in gang culture. View article...

Those differences in rates of exposure to police are also what Māori and Pasifika experience in New Zealand, where Māori are almost eight times ... View article...

New Zealanders could soon be saying 'kia ora' to their smartphone voice assistants, like Siri and Alexa, thanks to new funding from the government. View article...

From 200 years ago to the 1990s, it was dominated by farmers and hunters. New Zealand has a proud tradition of military prowess on both the Maori ... View article...

The study, led by Professor Jenny Lee-Morgan and funded by Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, looked at the success of Air New Zealand, Microsoft, ... View article...

This story originally appeared on Kveller. Taika Waititi's satirical film “Jojo Rabbit” is finally out! Set in Nazi Germany, the Jewish Maori director ... View article...

The new head of Māori in Corrections says the focus of prison needs to shift from punishing people to showing them respect, and helping them ... View article...

Russia's international fight against LGBTI-rights is an inherent part of their strategy to undermine the European Union's liberal democracy. View article...

... entitled “Ending Discrimination and Expanding Access to Inclusive and Stigma-free Services for LGBTI Communities in India: A Four-state Initiative”. View article...

Taiwan has teamed up with the European Union to hold talks on LGBTI and human rights issues in Taipei beginning on ... View article...

None of the core UN treaties contain language on LGBTI rights, but proactive interpretation and application by treaty bodies has had positive local ... View article...

... paintings and prints from artists from around 50 Aboriginal arts centres. ... reimagining Australia's bank notes with portraits of Indigenous Australians ... View article...

Dr Oyelola Adegboye from James Cook University's Australian Institute of ... been little research on pneumonia attributable to weather effects in Australia. ... Similarly, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander group studied showed a ... View article...

Senior officers from local and national Aboriginal organisations say Yamaji people from the Murchison and Gascoyne have the nation's highest ... View article...

“I always felt frustrated that the history I wrote and everyone in the field of Aboriginal history wrote began in 1770 or 1788,” said Professor McGrath, ... View article...

There are an estimated 60,000 survivors of institutional child sexual abuse in Australia. Based on the private sessions held as part of the Royal ... View article...

Type 2 diabetes is the fastest growing chronic disease in Australia, and Aboriginal and Torre Strait Islander Australians with diabetes are 38 times ... View article...

For Indigenous Australians the Aboriginal flag has a very importantpolitical and legal status and is an important symbol. Flying it on such a busy ... View article...

A higher proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people also ... in our current cohort of youth, a finding that is not unique to Australia. View article...

The children performed a selection of tunes, including a karakia, Happy Birthday in Māori and their own take on novelty rock'n'roll number Splish ... View article...

... interest which seems to me would disqualify him from any participation in any council business that has to do with Māori interests because the whole ... View article... - 

A 2014 report by the New Zealand Ministry of Education on outcomes of tertiary education for Maori graduates found that the earnings premium for ... View article...

Apps and social media campaigns are being produced as researchers and Māori communities work to find out what interventions will help to enable ... View article...

The band seamlessly fuses traditional and contemporary styles to create an authentic blend of reggae, embodying the sounds of Māori, Polynesian, ... View article...

The tools will enable applications to be built that will ensure all New Zealanders can use te reo Māori when engaging with their digital devices. View article...

On the left, a noble Maori from a different age and opposite, in ubiquitous ... As stated in the programme, “Many Maori feel lost both within their own ... View article...

Diversity with Maori represented, more women elected and an interesting mix of cultures and ages able to offer an interesting perspective. In hindsight ... View article...