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  Let's fight exclusion STIGMABASE  is a canadian non-profit internet initiative dedicated to informing and raising awareness on the damaging effects of social exclusion and stigma around the world. The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.

Promising start to Maori procurement database

Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson says initial indications are a push to increase the number of Māori firms doing business with government is ... View article...

Six Seasons Resources building the Indigenous workforce

The grant, awarded by the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA), will help the organisation to create employment for dozens of Aboriginal  ... View article...

Australia's mega prison raises fears for prisoner and rural health

Around 60 percent of the 155 women prisoners in CCC have dependent children and one-third are Aboriginal women, according to SHINE for Kids ... View article...

Labor pledges $91m to reduce Aboriginal incarceration rates and reduce deaths in custody

A “seismic shift” has been proposed to reduce the rate of Indigenous people being locked up in prison as the number of First Nation Australians dying ... View article...

Aboriginal imprisonment: don't confuse a social issue with a justice issue

West Australian Police Commissioner Chris Dawson is the latest public official to demand indigenous incarceration rates be reduced. He told The ... View article...

Why Are Māori Preterm Babies Less Likely To Get Breast Milk?

Māori preterm babies who were receiving intravenous fluids had the lowest odds of transitioning to breast milk in hospital, according to a study of 151 ... View article...

Polynesian Panthers say work still needs to be done to combat racism

Eventually there were 300 of them all across New Zealand. All their ... It's the kinds of trauma; and not just pacific people there were also Maori people ... View article...

$100k Māori Student Scholarship Sees Harvard Student Return As Mentor Alongside Former ...

New Zealand's only scholarship to support Māori high school students to gain admission to the world's most competitive universities is back for ... View article...

Maori art show goes virtual

Director Kirsten Lacy says it offers panoramic photography, 360-degree video and virtual reality software to give people around New Zealand and ... View article...

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  Let's fight exclusion STIGMABASE  is a canadian non-profit internet initiative dedicated to informing and raising awareness on the damaging effects of social exclusion and stigma around the world. The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.

Student strives to reduce suicide rates in his community

Dameyon is a gay Aboriginal (Mangarayi) and Torres Strait Islander ... at the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP) to help ... View article...

First Nations call for increased water ownership of Australia's largest river

First Nations groups say governments should be ashamed that Aboriginal Australians do not own more water; Water Minister Keith Pitt says he is ... View article...

Canberra Aboriginal health leader calls for justice system overhaul on royal ...

The boss of Canberra's Aboriginal health service says she lives in fear that another Aboriginal person will die in custody in the ACT as the country ... View article...

Australians protest Aboriginal deaths in custody, 30 years after major report

Hundreds of people demonstrated in Australia's major cities on Saturday (Apr 10) to protest the deaths of Indigenous people in custody ... View article...

No quick fixes to housing crisis in New Zealand

A further package specifically targeted at Māori housing and whenua is being developed for Budget 2021, which will be released on May 20th. I also ... View article...

Disabled four times more likely to report feeling lonely most of the time - report

The difference is through 2020, Statistics NZ began collecting more demographic ... earners, single parents, young people, recent migrants and Māori. View article...

Tauranga council commissioners vote to establish Māori ward

Tauranga City Council commissioners have unanimously voted to establish a Māori ward, becoming one of the first New Zealand councils to do so ... View article...

Māori Party referred to police over $328000 in undeclared donations

Then Māori Party co-leaders John Tamihere and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. Tamihere donated around $158,000 to the party. The Māori Party has been ... View article...

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  Let's fight exclusion STIGMABASE  is a canadian non-profit internet initiative dedicated to informing and raising awareness on the damaging effects of social exclusion and stigma around the world. The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.