Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

... to look into how the education system in New Zealand and in other colonised countries has overlooked Māori and Indigenous language and culture. View article...

Strict word limits for Māori translations of local body election candidate profiles is a form of “institutional racism” ... Photo: New Zealand Government. View article...

The Tuia 250 flotilla has started its visit to the Bay of Islands by paying respects to one of the earliest known sites where Māori settled after their long ... View article...

The report shows alcohol is still the most harmful drug in New Zealand. Methamphetamine use is an ongoing issue, and Māori continue to suffer ... View article...

Māori and Pacific Islanders were not excluded from the New Zealand cohorts, which were recruited from Christchurch and Auckland hospitals, ... View article...

In New Zealand, in 2010, he was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for his art. Flintoff humbly explains by phone how, as a non-Maori, serendipity ... View article...

Na Nagara said it was important to view New Zealand's suicide rate in its ... including a Maori advisory function to address high Maori suicide rates. View article...

The New Zealand Maori Council has called on both Maori and the Crown to “step back for a moment and start working on a plan to finally break the ... View article...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

In 1979, he went on a trip to Australia, where he began buying the Aboriginal bark carvings and dot paintings known as “dreamings”, before they ... View article...

Call it the Uluru effect. With the world-famous Aboriginal site now closed to climbing by tourists, other destinations in ... View article...

More than just a walk, it is a spiritual journey into Palawa which is the oldest aboriginal culture here. This 20 miles guided walk will be lead by an Elder ... View article...

The Department of Health is set to inject $90 million into a program to support primary health care in Aboriginal communities across Australia. View article...

One of my big bugaboos as a cultural historian and critic is originality. Today's spate of sequels, remakes and copycatting of content ... View article...

The first remote South Australian dialysis clinic officially opened its doors ... Purple House is an Aboriginal community-controlled health service that ... View article...

Uncle Jack Charles is often acknowledged as the 'grandfather of Aboriginal theatre in Australia', and co-founded the first Aboriginal theatre company, ... View article...

In 2016, Aboriginal activists slammed a chemist in Toowoomba, Queensland, for selling golliwog dolls, dubbing the town 'the most racist in Australia'. View article...

The report shows alcohol is still the most harmful drug in New Zealand. Methamphetamine use is an ongoing issue, and Māori continue to suffer ... View article...

National MP Joanne Hayes says some Maori could end up better off if their welfare payments were reduced - claims condemned by the Māori Council ... View article...

Public hearings in New Zealand on abuse of ... Thousands of Maori people protested across New Zealand in July calling for ... View article...

This week, Māori in the Taranaki region remembered the “day of plunder” – the 1881 government invasion of Parihaka, the small settlement that had ... View article...

"I would prefer that we didn't have a state department anywhere near, particularly tamariki Māori. We have to accept, Māori have to accept that we will ... View article...

One member who welcomed community members and Māori leaders onto their patch was Sonny Fatupaito, who has led the Mongrel Mob Kingdom ... View article...

Te Puia, a centre for Maori cultural experiences in Whakarewarewa Geothermal valley, lies just three km from the town centre. It was established and ... View article...

Josh Te Kani has dreadlocks, tattoos - including a traditional tā moko pūhoro - and wears a whale bone necklace that's the size of his fist. They're ... View article...

Recap : Aboriginal Community

Recap : Māori | NZ

More than just a walk, it is a spiritual journey into Palawa which is the oldest aboriginal culture here. This 20 miles guided walk will be lead by an Elder ... View article...

Yabun is held on January 26, the same as Australia Day, and is 'the largest one day gathering and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

As Mrs Pallett is an Aboriginal Australian, she can access the Indigenous Employment Program, which helps Aboriginal people secure work. View article...

Aboriginal remains to come home ... Several elders from across Australia will travel to Leipzig in Germany for an official handover of 42 ancestors' ... View article...

Rugby league legend Johnathan Thurston AM is among the high profile Indigenous Australians in Darwin this week to take part in the Northern ... View article...

Residents of Scotdesco in South Australia say they've been without clean drinking water for days. They're urging the State Government to include ... View article...

Ita Buttrose, Chair of the Australian Mental Health Prize Advisory Group said ... As Aboriginal people, we have some of the highest suicide rates in the ... View article...

There are also different risk factors among fathers and partners, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Culturally and Linguistically ... View article...

It's one of many targets set out in their new Māori strategy - Te Huringa o Te Tai - launched at Pipitea Marae in Wellington last night. Māori make up 51 ... View article...

Still, I would argue that these Kiwi-Indians have played a major role in shaping modern New Zealand – along with Māori, Pākehā and other ... View article...

... felt like a dream," gushes Dot, the only New Zealand designer to feature. ... was recently awarded a Queen's Service Medal for services to Māori art). View article...

The group of young men and women took part in various fixtures against New Zealand schools and teams, taking in the proud Maori culture in the ... View article...

In the opening scenes of NZ Wars: The Stories of Waitara, a young wahine methodically plants her kūmara crops in the fertile Taranaki soil, unaware ... View article...

All are examples of Māori-owned business forging a distinctive identity in New Zealand's economic and social future. Based on a five-year research ... View article...

Fire and Emergency New Zealand Maori liaison officer Hori Mana blows a pūtātara, a Māori shell trumpet, at a ceremony to unveil at carving at New ... View article...

Maori have asserted their sovereign rights to forge agreements which grant the Whanganui River and the Te Urewera ... View article...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

Yorta Yorta, Taungurung, Boonwurrung and Mutti Mutti woman Tahnee Edwards was inspired to start Gammin Threads based on the 2018 NAIDOC ... View article...

The collective wrote to the federal minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt, and the South Australian premier, Steven Marshall, pleading for help ... View article...

Former Labor frontbencher Daryl Melham says Labor in this term must devote itself to dealing with unfinished business with Indigenous Australians, ... View article...

McGinlay says the problem is that the scheme doesn't acknowledge that Indigenous Australians in remote communities have particular needs due to ... View article...

In August, the Australian Government through IP Australia published the `Protection of Indigenous knowledge in the intellectual property system: ... View article...

Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt has ordered his department to urgently investigate claims that some of Australia's most successful ... View article...

With the world-famous Aboriginal site now closed to climbing by tourists, other destinations in Australia are considering similar tourist-reducing ... View article...

The rock art painted by Aboriginal people thousands of years ago is a priceless national treasure that few Australians have seen, and whose ... View article...

... as a hallmark of excellence for researchers working in New Zealand. ... in New Zealand and in other colonised countries has overlooked Māori and ... View article...

In New Zealand, Māori men make up 62 percent of the prison population and Māori women 64 percent. Mr Jackson said the common thread was they ... View article...

Why a gene variant specific to Māori and Pacific people increases blood pressure, understanding how colour-blind octopus are so exceptional at ... View article...

Manawa – a tool service providers can use to accurately capture what matters to Māori so government can identify necessary steps to improve ... View article...

A Māori trust says the decision to give local councils the right to set fishing regulations is the right one. The Court of Appeal today decided the Bay of ... View article...

“They not only built friendships with others from Australia, but they made new connections with the Maori people.” Drawing 28-all against Tokora High ... View article...

New Zealand's migrant boom is good news for Māori. It empowers us ... We are expanding our coverage of New Zealand.  View article...

In Aoetaroa / New Zealand, Maori have asserted their sovereign rights to forge agreements which grant the Whanganui River and the Te Urewera ... View article...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta is keen for an indigenous cooperation arrangement covering Māori and Australian Aboriginal businesses ... View article...

... has highlighted the growing burden of mental illness in Australia. ... and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are more than twice as ... View article...

An Aboriginal community on South Australia's west coast has run dry and has called for help from the federal government to subsidise water carting ... View article...

“This project will provide data of national significance to assist our understanding of the nature of Aboriginal settlement in north-eastern Australia and ... View article...

... Aunty Maxine Ryan takes kids on hikes around Aboriginal landmarks, cooks traditional bush tucker with students and makes shell maps of Australia. View article...

Throughout the process of colonisation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia have been killed and massacred in Frontier ... View article...

The University of Western Australia (UWA) is ranked amongst the top 100 ... to improve the health and wellbeing of older Aboriginal Australians. View article...

“Australia's indigenous Aboriginal people have the oldest living culture on Earth. For around 60,000 years, their intricate understanding ... View article...

Britain's High Commissioner to New Zealand has elaborated on the statement of regret made to Gisborne iwi over the first interaction between Māori ... View article...

My recent book shows New Zealand is no different and, in my view, ... on New Zealand is about (I exclude significant sections in the chapter on Maori ... The fake liberals were very different from a traditional NZ labor party but few ... View article...

Local control of fishing rules have been upheld by Court of Appeal in Mōtītī case. A Māori trust says the decision to give local councils the right to set ... View article...

In Aoetaroa / New Zealand, Maori have asserted their sovereign rights to forge agreements which grant the Whanganui River and the Te Urewera ... View article...

It also had high historic value as a site of early occupation by Māori, and strong significance linked to identity and belonging, especially for tangata ... View article...

"I have received hundreds of reports with sub-standard comments under the heading 'Māori impacts'" she said. Both Dalton and Coom backed the ... View article...

"Men, women, young, old, Māori and non Māori, it was good to have people from all over the top of the south." The waka's launch was part of a ... View article...

Starring Taika Waititi. Rated PG. Certainly the best known Jewish-Maori filmmaker to come from the Antipodes, Taika Waititi moves from Thor: ... View article...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Australia have advanced since the late-twentieth century. LGBT people in Australia are afforded protection from discrimination and are equally regarded as individuals who possess the same rights and responsibilities as others egaylity.org/au

... has highlighted the growing burden of mental illness in Australia. ... and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are more than twice as ... View article...

Wyatt, minister for Indigenous Australians, aspires to deliver constitutional recognition of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in this term, ... View article...

Mr Wyatt, Minister for Indigenous Australians, aspires to deliver constitutional recognition of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in this ... View article...

“The reason that I'm riffing on this film clip is that it's possibility the first time that Aboriginality or Australian Indigenous culture intercepts with global ... View article...

In a powerful statement about the central place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and artists in contemporary Australian culture, the Artistic ... View article...

There are 38 children being held in detention in Australia's Northern Territory and every single one of them is Aboriginal, a parliamentary committee ... View article...

Many were not recognised Australian citizens at the time. ... The memorial opened in the grounds of Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal ... View article...

Aboriginal leaders in Australia's Outback have been expressing relief that their sacred rock, Uluru, will no longer have tourists climbing on it. Anangu ... View article...

“Despite rhetoric about reducing inequities, the New Zealand health system has failed to ... These show that we need significant, Māori-led, changes”. View article...

This area in Fiordland was traditionally visited by Māori hunting seals for food and from the early 1800s by Pākehā sealers who gathered fur seal skins ... View article...

Curator of New Zealand Historical Art at Te Papa Rebecca Rice said it ... it is known that Māori believed that atua would inhabit a rākau atua when ... View article...

The soft-spoken scholar homed in on the intergenerational legacy of the system for Māori, in particular, who accounted for at least half the kids who ... View article...

As election year looms, Green Party MPs have held a retreat to prepare themselves for the fray. Co-leader Marama Davis says it's a numbers game, ... View article...

“I discovered that I was prescribing lower rates of the medication for Māori ... and unconscious bias is an issue within New Zealand's health system. View article...

“I discovered that I was prescribing lower rates of the medication for Māori ... The chair of the commission's Te Rōpū Māori advisory group, Ria Earp, ... View article...

It will be Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Wairarapa's second national competition ever, after performing for the first time with the top teams in Gisborne two ... View article...

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All government engagement with Indigenous Australia and its policies were “mainstreamed”. That involved eradicating any Aboriginal and Torres ... View article...

Roach also went into detail on his stance on the controversial 'Change the date' debate over Australia Day. He believes Aboriginal people can't feel ... View article...

But instead of celebrating as Australians they are encouraged by the vast industry that has evolved to serve Aboriginal Australians to eschew their ... View article...

Dan Kelly, a solicitor with Australian Lawyers for Remote Aboriginal Rights, said the supreme court action would appeal that decision using a ... View article...

Walking alongside her is the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania (ALCT) manager Graeme Gardner, who keenly points out the rich tapestry of ... View article...