Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Boochani is able to travel to New Zealand because of help from United ... receiving a traditional welcome by the local Maori Iwi, or tribe, Ngai Tahu. View article...

If we were to identify the New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi as Maori, we would ignore the fact that he is as much Russian-Jewish. When today's ... View article...

Late last month, the New Zealand Police launched Armed Response ... of Maori and Pacific Islanders, who are disproportionately affected by police ... View article...

The Waitangi Tribunal is slamming the Crown for letting rivers and lakes get so polluted and for essentially blocking Māori from helping to fix the ... View article...

Māori Party – As Labour continue to make Willie Jackson's job of winning all the electorates back for Labour harder and harder by giving him crumbs ... View article...

In New Zealand it's disproportionately targetted, prosecuted and imprisoned Māori. People who need help have been put in jail. It's cost the justice ... View article...

Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters calls them "a huge asset to New Zealand's social cohesion". Samantha Olley met some of our local volunteers. View article...

From Monday 18 November New Zealand women are working for free until ... for free on 12 October for Māori women (22.1% pay gap) and 29 September for ... The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi brings ... View article...

Recap : Aboriginal Community

Recap : Māori | NZ

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

The highest life expectancy in Australia is found on the north shore of ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders life expectancy was 71.6 years for men ... View article...

Among the first class actions of its kind in Australia, it has been filed on behalf of eight Aboriginal residents, including Cumaiyi. In an affidavit to support ... View article...

The Inner West Council has voted to move festivities usually held on Australia Day and encourage constituents to attend the Aboriginal Yabun festival. View article...

'I had goosebumps': New Indigenous exhibition brings people to tears ... A new exhibition showcasing Aboriginal history and the constant evolution of ... map of lines that link Australia together culturally, spiritually and physically. View article...

Celebrations held on January 26 should have Australia Day in the title, ... inclusivity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians continues. View article...

“People across Australia are grappling with how that date can be commemorated in a way that includes Aboriginal people and this is a small step ... View article...

“We recently partnered with outback South Australian school, Marree Aboriginal School, to form a career pathway program for high school graduates ... View article...

Mr McLean said comments by WA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt in The Australian on Wednesday accurately reflected the huge problem for ... View article...

Twenty young people local to the eastern Bay of Plenty region spent five days exploring what it means to be a young Māori in New Zealand, learning ... View article...

One of New Zealand's toughest prisons has been slammed for treating ... The prison was built in 2005 with the aim of rehabilitating Māori inmates as ... View article...

"My mother changed dramatically from the passionate, strong Maori leader she was," he said. "Last night I spoke with three of the most high-profile ... View article...

The MFAT Aorere Internship is aimed towards applicants of Māori descent and specifically targets rangatahi who ...  View article...

It is also vital that bowel screening be available for Māori aged 50 and over now. Māori are directly disadvantaged by screening starting at age 60 as a ... View article...

He says the police watchdog is racist and biased because it regards Western values as superior to Māori tikanga. In October, Dennis laid a complaint ... View article...

National's Maori development spokesperson says a critical report into Oranga Tamariki's attempted uplift of a baby in Hawke's Bay in May shows the ... View article...

His story covered how Maori came to be in New Zealand, their ancestral connection with certain voyaging canoes, and how Maori relate to land and ... 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

Bolivia faces its worst unrest in decades amid a political vacuum as Evo Morales, who transformed the Andean nation as its first indigenous president, ... View article...

Indigenous activists and traditional owners in Australia, encouraged by the recent closure of the country's iconic Uluru rock structure to tourists, are ... View article...

Joanne Cassady is an acclaimed indigenous artist leaving her mark on the world through murals, paintings and ... commissioned murals in dozens of locations all over Australia and supply the artwork for an NRMA billboard. View article...

Yesterday federal Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt announced he'd asked Professor Marcia Langton to help design an Aboriginal-only ... View article...

Instead, the government has launched a co-design process for a legislated voice, and a separate process for including indigenous Australian's in the ... View article...

Minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt has released the membership list of the Senior Advisory Group that will be leading the way on ... View article...

At the opening, audiences will hear Aboriginal mission songs sung by indigenous Australian singer Jessie Lloyd. An exhibition of photographs from ... View article...

We're on our way to a remote Aboriginal community in the central north of Western Australia. After being granted permission to enter – having applied ... View article...

Aucklander Taylah Kereama has become the first Māori curve model to ... Kereama has previously modelled for New Zealand designers such as ... View article...

“It's been particularly challenging for Māori, Pacific peoples, and people with disabilities and additional learning needs. This is reflected in a 2018 ... View article...

The Maangai Māori will have full voting rights on the council's three ... The three representatives will be appointed in the new year by the Mayor Allan ... View article...

Some southern Māori are upset at the closure of the Southland Mortuary saying it interferes with their traditional grieving process. The Southern ... View article...

Māori teachers and parents are calling for the qualifications authority to change the NCEA timetable to stop disadvantaging te reo Māori students. View article...

She is a ministerial appointment on the National Ethics Advisory Committee and president of Ikaroa Region Māori Women's Welfare League. View article...

New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute general manager, Eraia Kiel says it is proud moment to see NZMACI play such an important role – both ... View article...

Maori short changed on lung cancer treatment ... Māori are high expressers of a particular ALK biomarker for a cancer which responds well ... 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

At the opening, audiences will hear Aboriginal mission songs sung by indigenous Australian singer Jessie Lloyd. An exhibition of photographs from ... View article...

... across Australia, Canada, Aotearoa, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. As part of this focus, Jimmy Chi and Kuckle's exuberant Aboriginal musical ... View article...

Monty Boori Pryor shares his passions for literacy and Aboriginal storytelling globally. The Carlton man has performed in a symphony orchestra, ... View article...

One of the most disturbing aspects of this program, researchers found, was it disproportionately targets young Aboriginal people. The data from five ... View article...

A total of 2700 Māori and Pacific men served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the First World War, while 70 Indigenous Australian men ... View article...

Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley region of Western Australia have been managing fire for millennia by lighting 'cool' fires in targeted areas at ... View article...

For Indigenous Australians who were put in out-of-home care with mental illness, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) might not be the best ... View article...

Indigenous woman's children call for criminal investigation and say ... Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning ... View article...

The number of women, Māori and Pasifika pursuing a career in trades on the increase. The Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation ... View article...

Te Whānau o Waipareira has released its third issue of a journal that evidences positive transformation for Māori and indigenous communities. View article...

“Māori said they want to exercise more agency and authority over the education of Māori learners; they want to see their identity, language and culture ... View article...

“The single biggest thing Labour could have done to support Māori ... This is reflected in a 2018 Unicef report ranking New Zealand 33rd out of 38 ... View article...

What if Climate Change was Purple? is an exciting opportunity to draw on our unique kaupapa in New Zealand, with Maori knowledge, history, a no.8 ... View article...

Kapa haka groups from around the country will be descending on Nelson for what's been described as "the biggest Māori event in the world". View article...

Māori Television has handed creative control of its new Instagram platform to a production team of young content producers, social media influencers ... View article...

He is described as being of Maori/Pacific Islander in appearance, with a thin build and aged in his late teens. At the time of the offence he was wearing ... 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

When we talk about the troubled youths of Australia, it's important to remember that indigenous youth are disproportionately affected by the ... View article...

A fact sheet from the Australian Government's Parks Australia section ... was ignoring of its ancient history and link to aboriginal tribes and culture.'. View article...

Now they have now been digitally replicated for display in Australia's overseas ... 'The doors are symbolic of the oral tradition of sharing Aboriginal ... View article...

Harper's Bazaar Australia is defending the cover of its December issue after a backlash from angry fans. ... "Where are the aboriginal models? This is ... View article...

Australia Day celebrations in Sydney's inner west are set to be scrapped in favour of the Aboriginal festival Yabun under a council proposal aimed at a ... View article...

And on Saturday, Australian model Nicole Trunfio turned heads as she ... how she wants to raise their children with a keen sense of Aboriginal culture. View article...

The original inhabitants of Rottnest were the Whadjuk Noongar people, one of the largest Aboriginal cultural blocks in Australia. Their name for ... View article...

... Women's Legal Services Australia, Community Legal Centres Australia and National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services urged the ... View article...

... 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...