Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Aboriginal Australians were among the 'first out of Africa', study suggests  -  Aboriginal Australians have an indigenous genetic history tracing all the way back to the earliest settlement of the continent 50,000 years ago, the first ...

The art of aeons  - ART has evolved from the creativity of the world's oldest continuous living culture to explode onto the world stage.

The Viral Rise Of Stan Grant: Why Diplomacy Won't Be Enough For Our People  - It was a fact that even Grant acknowledged in the Guardian Australia , stating “other Indigenous people have delivered speeches similar to mine, ...

Discrimination of the vilest kind  - Lanhupuy, the sole Aboriginal MP to support the bill, was, according to one ... “Also many Aborigines from remote communities with traditional belief .... social and cultural systems do not 'match' those of non- Aboriginal Australia , ...

Victoria begins talks about Australia's first-ever treaty with Indigenous people  - Talks are beginning into the formation of Australia's first-ever treaty with Indigenous people after a Victorian government forum brought together ...

Indonesia's Psychiatry Association Classifies LGBT People as Having a 'Mental Disorder'  - Participants hold a giant rainbow flag during an LGBT pride parade in Hong Kong, ... Australia Broadcasting Corporation News reported Thursday that ...

Equality is far away with friends like Malcolm Turnbull  - We thought the new Prime Minister would be a true friend to gay Australia . Now he seems more frenemy than friend.

Safe Schools Coalition: what is the Christian Right afraid of?  - Bernardi and the Australian Christian Lobby's claims that Safe Schools Coalition programs promote homosexuality (read “turn kids gay ”) implies that ...

The rules of the game: Did New Zealand get its prostitution laws right?  - In 2003 New Zealand chose to decriminalise prostitution, but in Europe .... "You're still giving people the idea that what these girls are doing is bad.

Fashioned from nature  - A mix of art, architecture and geometry, the weird and wonderful 3-D models in his Dunedin workspace could be straight out of some futuristic movie.

Wellingtonians will come to embrace cycleways  - Every New Zealand child deserves a chance to bike. All around the world, people are flocking to great cities. Wellington is expecting to grow by 50,000 ...

Indonesia's West Papua crimes laid bare in award-winning documentary  - Indonesia's West Papua crimes laid bare in award-winning documentary ... “Initially there was a bit of a stand-off — 'who are these people blah blah' ...

Maori tribal art Tekoteko figure for New Zealand  - This superb Aotearoa Maori Tekoteko figure has been masterfully carved in the round with impressive detail featuring intricately carved traditional ...

A bunch of people poking their little sticks into the marijuana zoo to see what funny stuff the Maoris ...  - A number of people felt the list was more or less really insulting to Maori , that it failed to properly represent great works by and about Maori in the ...

Strategy needed for Maori fishing effort  - The Maori fisheries settlement trust is holding a hui at the Auckland Airport Novotel this morning to consult on a new structure and business plan.

Film 'This is not Dying' records everyday scenes from Māori community  - New Zealander Nova Paul's film This is not Dying records everyday scenes from around her family Marae and Māori community, in the north ...