Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

The Oldest Foods on Earth  - Before the British invaded, Aboriginal Australians were thriving on a vast diet of more than 6000 plants, grains and meats. There is a native strain of ...

Sexual fluidity: Living a label-free life  - My mother was driving me to netball practice and had mentioned something about gay men in the media. I was asking questions, which led her to use ...

Gay minister rejected before being welcomed by Neutral Bay church  -  Gay minister rejected before being welcomed by Neutral Bay church ... to be a minister at several Australian parishes was rejected because he is gay .

Twitter and ANZ celebrate Sydney Mardi Gras with awesome rainbow emoji  - To celebrate their 10th anniversary of sponsoring Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, ANZ Australia teamed up with the social media website and ...

Which Australians are donating millions for good?  - THEY'RE some of Australia's most generous givers, but you wouldn't ... They gave $50 million to the Poche indigenous Health Network, which aims to ...

An insult to black Australians is an insult to all Australians  - Then he adds “And I keep drinking until I think I'm a black Australian .” ... social issue happening right now involving indigenous people and alcohol.

Racial inequality in the Australian criminal system – 1 in 6 Black people go to prison  - In Western Australia , the mother of jailers, one in 13 of Aboriginal adult ... The most at-risk age group are the 20 to 30 year old males who suicide at the ...

Facebook's suicide prevention tool now in Britain  - After a successful trial in the US and Australia , social media giant Facebook has rolled out its suicide prevention in Britain that allows users to ...

Yvonne Sampson reveals the family secret that changed her identity  - Sampson said her father revealed that he was also given up for adoption in 1964 because his mother was an indigenous Australian , a secret that was ...

Indigenous journalist Stan Grant 'tried to scrub off' his colored skin through shame  - Journalist and author Stan Grant has given a passionate address about the ongoing suffering of Indigenous Australians , confessing that as a child he ...

Indigenous jobs need transparency, says Stan Grant  - Community leaders, including the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory ... Australian that Ms Campbell, who is white, invented an indigenous family ...

Rob Thomas Apologizes After Insulting Australian Audience With Racial Joke  - This didn't sit well with locals, who pointed out that drunkenness is an offensive stereotype of Australia's Aboriginal population, but Thomas insisted in ...

Indigenous MP ruled disorderly for speaking Warlpiri language in parliament  - An Aboriginal Australian minister has called for the use of Indigenous languages to be freely allowed in parliament, after she was chastised for ...

Aussie family group stands up to LGBT program for 11-year-olds  - An Australian Christian organization is warning school principals to keep out of a federally funded ...

Southland death rates for bowel and breast cancer second highest in New Zealand during 2010 ...  - "It's always difficult for people who are a bit further from an oncology centre. ... It's much more difficult for people further from the oncology centre.".

Refugee advocate wants to double New Zealand intake quota - Our system allows people to have basic protection. That's why New Zealand needs to help." Stephens is touring New Zealand hoping to educate the ...

Prison population at an all time high  - The prison population has reached all time high and double-bunking prisoners could be the Department of Corrections answer to help cope with the ...

Does the new housing bill support rangatiratanga?  - There are more than 600,000 state houses in New Zealand and Maori have a ... within a year, just who will be the new landlord is yet to be decided.

Blackboard recognises Maori as one of NZ's official languages  - Blackboard has released a Maori version of Bb Student - the next generation mobile solution that enables students to stay up-to-date on their ...

Rotorua artist carves a trail to the Holy Land  - Rotorua Maori artist Arekatera "Katz" Maihi will be travelling with a New Zealand film crew to the Middle East , to make a documentary on Maori and ...

Gisborne iwi backs art-to-UN project  - Helen Clark with New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute director Karl ... The resulting wooden artwork will stay in New Zealand while the bronze ...

New Edevu Power Project to benefit communities  - This is the reason why the clan representative marking the Heduvu people Mr. Tony Newton, appeals to the clans from Laloki down towards Hedevu to ...

Australia's ignorance about Papua New Guinea is a loss for both nations  - An Australian patrol officer holds a baby in Papua New Guinea in 1948. ... Australia does not celebrate that as a nation it ruled over another people .

Indonesia environment ministry detects 370-500 hotspots in Papua  - The ministry sent a team to Papua last January and found local people burning old grass in order to prepare the ground to grow fresh grass for cattle.