Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Social Worker and proud Wiradjuri woman, Madeleine Bridge, has been recognised for her unwavering commitment to Aboriginal patients and their ... View article...

... the Business and Workforce Advisory Service and the Remote and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Aged Care Service Development Assistance Panel. View article...

Ricky Hampson Jr was diagnosed with cannaboid hyperemesis syndrome at Dubbo base hospital, shortly before he died from perforated stomach ulcers. View article...

... Aboriginal teenager, Kumanjayi Walker. And a warning to our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers that the following story has images of ... View article...

The National-led Government has forged ahead with a plan to scrap the Māori Health Authority, tabling it before Parliament and in doing so, ... View article...

Centre-right government says health agency set up to improve access for Maori people will be abolished by end of June. View article...

Māori elder and environmental advocate, Mike Smith, has won a monumental legal battle against the largest emitters in New Zealand. View article...

The Government has killed Te Aka Whai Ora - the Māori Health Authority despite pleas and protests from Māori . Staying true to National's campaign ... View article...

As Aboriginal women who have lived alongside families impacted by youth crime, they were eager to share their perspectives. They say government ... View article...

New South Wales is home to almost 90 independent multicultural and Aboriginal publications and 210 radio programs, spoken in more than 56 ... View article...

The inaugural First Nations Voice will provide a direct line of communication between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities around South ... View article...

Those forests are all high conservation value and should have been protected.” The foundation supported Aboriginal ownership without logging trade- ... View article...

“Despite the poorest health outcomes, highest levels of socioeconomic deprivation and the highest proportion of Māori residents, these areas have ... View article...

Te Pāti Māori has warned the Government that if its gang crackdown overreaches into Māori rangatiratanga - or sovereignty - there will be hell to ... View article...

The Māori king is in Fiji this week for a meeting of traditional Pacific leaders. Fijian paramount chief Epenisa Seru Cakobau invited leaders from ... View article...

“In order to address the many health inequities and health system disparities experienced by Māori , it is vital to have a truly Māori -led structure, ... View article...

Aboriginal health experts at the Heart Research Institute (HRI) are sounding the alarm on atrial fibrillation (AF), a leading cause of stroke, ... View article...

“We had the full burn team from Australia come up to Kapowairua and at that stage they were a full female burn team of Aboriginal traditional owners.”. View article...

The Albanese Labor Government is improving food security in remote Aboriginal communities and investing more than one million dollars on a range ... View article...

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Best Practice Principles for Clean Energy Projects. First Nations Clean Energy Network co-chair Karrina ... View article...

Māori develop lung cancer 6-8 years earlier than non- Māori on average and at lower exposure to smoking. Total mortality. In New Zealand, about 33,000 ... View article...

... Māori . He says the referendum result proves people don't want 'race-based rights' as he pushes ahead with his controversial plan to redefine New ... View article...

Māori health leaders say scathing Ombudsman's report into Oranga Tamariki further proves the troubled agency needs to be torn down. View article...

A real estate agent is facing a five-year ban after refusing to complete a compulsory short course on Māori culture and tikanga. View article...

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children's developmental and learning outcomes was on the agenda  View article...

Eligible groups include Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises that are currently ... View article...

The Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (Vaccho) said it has contacted the state government and the hospital expressing ... View article...

The work of Aboriginal engineers has survived thousands of years but universities are missing out on attracting a new generation of Indigenous ... View article...

Immersion education is an option for students alongside dedicated Māori news media. Te reo Māori is also increasingly used in mainstream schools, ... View article...

The Lunar New Year, celebrated by billions around the world, shares some similarities with Matariki, the Māori New Year. View article...

"These measures include supporting Māori -led vaccination programmes that engage effectively with communities, responding to misinformation and ... View article...

"By the end of that first kura reo, I remember it I was dreaming in te reo māori . It was in Christchurch and I went up the street to get a break ... View article...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) populations of Australia experience higher rates of both cancer morbidity and mortality than the ... View article...

Getty ImagesRural Aboriginal families are sleeping rough, borrowing money and avoiding medical treatment to try and reduce or avoid huge ... View article...

Aboriginal Territorians could soon have a direct connection to the floor of the Territory parliament as debate looms over the structure, ... View article...

A new report into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing must be the starting point for renewed action. Australian Catholics are being ... View article...

The Paediatric Society of New Zealand has expressed concern over the Government's decision to review the Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme ... View article...

The Waitangi Tribunal will go ahead with an urgent inquiry into the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority. View article...

... Māori ” in early usage, noting that “with increasing European settlement after 1840, the term widened in application to include non- Maori immigrants”. View article...

Health NZ and the Māori Health Authority - Te Aka Whai Ora are working on the next three-year New Zealand Health Plan, which takes the report's ... View article...

An Aboriginal and recreational fishing action plan for all areas needs to be created to guide fishing in the Territory for the next 50 to 100 ... View article...

The Allan Labor Government is supporting First Nations led family violence services, with Aboriginal service Dardi Munwurro to deliver a new ... View article...

There could have been two boats but they used the same landing site, a dark spot between two remote Aboriginal communities north of Broome. View article...

In Victoria, the position of Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People is not enshrined in legislation, unlike the Principal Commissioner, ... View article...

Samoan health authorities are on alert if the measles vaccination rates in Aotearoa remain low, which may well see a transmission back to the ... View article...

NZ First had 6%, while Te Pāti Māori was on 4%. Te Pāti Māori's result was the highest it had received in seven years in the 1News polls. View article...

Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air The Government will be told tomorrow that its plans to scrap the Māori Health Authority will ... View article...

It was around the time of heightened Māori activism. Harawira steadfastly denied the allegations, telling the jury he had been confronted by his ... View article...

Developing Aboriginal cultural centres, and making WA Australia's Aboriginal tourism leader;; Enticing high yield travellers and international ... View article...

Courtney delivers Djirra's YoungLuv program, teaching young Aboriginal women about healthy relationships and consent. View article...

An Australian Aboriginal Christian Theology of Custodianship and Connection to Country. Rhanee Lester, Adnyamathanha delegate from South Australia at ... View article...

The Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Service said its clinics will not be referring patients against their will to the BDR - because it breached the ... View article...

Maori can't be shut out of water governance because they own most of it. That's according to iwi leaders, who say National politicians shutting ... View article...

Māori All Stars coach Adam Blair goes in depth on his coaching philosophies and some of the tough calls he's had to make early in his career. View article...

Māori are still five times more likely than non- Māori to need social housing. That's according to the Salvation Army's state of the nation annual ... View article...

The Māori Climate Platform was also pointed to as a key action from the Emission Reduction Plan 2022, which would "play a central role in ensuring ... View article...

The NSW Government has taken another step towards improving Aboriginal child safety and reforming the child protection system with the first ... View article...

We need Aboriginal health in Aboriginal hands — not another Close the Gap report. Read More. Because the total Indigenous population is relatively ... View article...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students now make up 6.5 per cent of all school students. The Apparent Retention Rate, which is the estimated ... View article...

"For remote and very remote Aboriginal students, in particular, there is a need to teach using a two-way approach, and also giving strong support to ... View article...

“Despite repeated recommendations for the Crown and Māori to determine the appropriate constitutional protections of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Māori  ... View article...

Mātauranga Iwi Leaders Group (MILG) and Pou Tangata welcomes the discussion on Māori education achievement following the group's first hui with ... View article...

Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission chair Hayden Wano says protecting rangatahi Māori needs to be a top priority. View article...

“The establishment of kura kaupapa Māori , the higher number of tamariki in Māori medium education, and iwi reo revitalisation have been a large driver ... View article...

Commissioner for Aboriginal children and young people was announced in response to damning Closing the Gap report. View article...

“The Commission heard a clear message from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during the course of this review: persistent barriers to ... View article...

Victoria launches $1.6M Aboriginal infrastructure grant program. Applications open for orgs to build, renovate or expand facilities to deliver ... View article...

The Uluru Statement says Makaratta – defined by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups as the coming together after a struggle – would help ... View article...

“Our company design and create Māori and Pasifika designed greeting cards, wrapping paper and contemporary wooden crafts,” says found Catherine. “Ka ... View article...

Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA), the Council of Medical Colleges in New Zealand (CMC), and Te Ohu Rata O Aotearoa – Māori Medical ... View article...

The Council of Medical Colleges represents doctors from 34 specialities and has joined with the Māori Medical Practitioners Association and Health ... View article...

Te Wānanga Ihorangi, a whakapono-based wānanga Māori has welcomed their first cohort of students onto their campus, committed to learning te ... View article...

Three Aboriginal boys seen from behind. Statistics show progress to reduce the number of First Nations children being removed from their families ... View article...

The latest data from 2023 shows Māori and Pacific infants and toddlers made up more than half of meningococcal disease, and while those cases are ... View article...

Auntie Aliethea Cutmore's dedication to empowering Indigenous communities has earned her a nomination for the NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year ... View article...

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people must benefit. Renewables projects can provide income and jobs to Aboriginal land owners. Access to ... View article...

The projects will be led by Aboriginal corporations and organisations in areas stretching from the waterways of the Trinity Inlet in Cairns (Gimuy ... View article...

The Aboriginal Employment Enabling Program will grant funds to employers and organisations in the Kimberley and Goldfields-Esperance region to develop ... View article...

Dr Karaitiana Taiuru, a Māori AI specialist and tech ethicist is warning that Thursday's launch of Foodstuffs North Island's facial recognition ... View article...

Luxon has copped criticism after his Waitangi Day speech for not addressing the fears from Māori that the Treaty of Waitangi and te reo Māori are ... View article...

Māori data ethicist Dr Karaitiana Taiuru said he was "disturbed" by the trial. He said there was overseas evidence the technology struggled to ... View article...

Teams have been announced for next Friday's Indigenous and Māori All Stars fixtures in Townsville with Dally M Medallists, Origin representativ... View article...

Australia's largest Aboriginal legal service could be stripped of its funding amid a crisis that is seeing Indigenous people fronting court ... View article...

Aboriginal students will benefit from stability and connection in their schools thanks to a NSW Government initiative that has increased the ... View article...

An Aboriginal housing provider has helped launch one of the first purpose-built Elders' retirement villages in Australia. The Aboriginal Community ... View article...

A sad thing about our politicians' tributes to Aboriginal leader Lowitja O'Donoghue after her death last weekend is that they trashed a great ... View article...

Māori will be among the most impacted by the Government's cruel, irrational, and senseless plan to stop funding pre-sentencing background reports. View article...

Māori activist Mike Smith is celebrating a big win in his legal battle against what he calls New Zealand's "Polluting 7", including Fonterra, ... View article...

Many Maori leaders find the bill abhorrent and a re-casting of New Zealand's foundational promise, made back in 1840 when the treaty was signed ... View article...

In 2021, te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi questioned the dusty parliamentary dress code that deemed a European style tie “appropriate business ... View article...

A gay Aboriginal man on a work trip from Melbourne alleged race and sexual orientation discrimination when he complained to the hotel about his room ... View article...

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. Elected Body members will have their paid time increased and will be supported by an independent ... View article...

Advocacy groups want legal changes after an adoption agency refused to consider an Aboriginal baby's aunt as a carer because she was in same-sex ... View article...

A study by The University of Western Australia has found disparities in cancer screenings for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the. View article...

Thousands of people converged on Waitangi on Tuesday in the biggest turnout in decades. And in the words of Dame Whina Cooper, the star of these ... View article...

Criminalising Māori activists because of the museum's own inaccuracies is fundamentally wrong and racist. The action has generated extraordinary ... View article...

... Māori language in public services, and scrapping the Maori Health Authority and anti-smoking laws, among other issues. The coalition also ... View article...

More than 1000 people have marched into the treaty grounds at Waitangi on New Zealand's north island — the culmination of a week-long protest ... View article...

A year on from the return of alcohol bans in Aboriginal town camps and communities, progress on alcohol-related harm and violence remains an ... View article...

“Jumbunna has recent experience working in the ACT, where it led co-design work on the establishment of the ACT's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... View article...