Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Colonialism Is Bad for Your Health …but Indigenous Media Can Help  - Beyond the politics of culture and identity, a research team in Australia confirmed that Indigenous community radio plays a significant role in times of ...

Renewed calls for action to address Indigenous disadvantage  - Progress on meeting targets remains slow - with Indigenous life expectancy still well behind non- Indigenous Australia , and Aboriginal incarceration ...

Preventing gender-based violence in schools  - We know that gender-based violence is a profound issue in Australia with ... "1 in 3 women internationally experience physical or sexual violence , ...

The LGBT rights movement is gaining recognition -- and allies -- across Asia -  Australia and New Zealand Banking Group decked out these ATMs for the 2016 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. Dubbed GAYTMs, the ...

Captain America Civil War' Shooting Location to Pass Anti- Gay Law; Marvel, Disney Threaten ...  - Now, Disney and Marvel are taking a stand against Georgia, as the companies plan to boycott the shooting location if an anti- gay bill passes. They will ...

Indigenous Australians say Closing the Gap “doomed to fail”  -  Indigenous Australians say Closing the Gap “doomed to fail” ... “ Australia has the highest youth suicide rate in the world and within that, the highest ...

Third Aboriginal community takes legal action against Northern Territory over poor housing  - Residents of Larapinta, one of 18 town camps on the outskirts of Alice Springs, has formally notified the NT department of housing of 160 emergency repairs which have not been fixed.

The Shock And Awe Cycle: How Apathy To Abuse Is Hidden By Blaming Black Communities  - In Cairns, young mothers are more likely to be Aboriginal or Torres Strait ... to break the silence which has largely been imposed by white Australia .

Art project between Anangu women and APY Lands police officer wins SA award  - A collaboration between Anangu Indigenous women and their local police officer has been recognised with an arts and culture award. The idea came ...

Darebin deputy mayor Oliver Walsh questions inclusion of Aborigines in genocide memorial  - Darebin, and Australia more generally, still has a long way to go before we can ... Including Aborigines on the monument is the least Darebin can do,” ...

Indigenous Australians say Closing the Gap “doomed to fail”  -  Indigenous Australians say Closing the Gap “doomed to fail” ... Losing battle: Brisbane Indigenous community leader Sam Watson is concerned for the ...

Aboriginal shields used for battle and ceremony on display at SA Museum  - A unique exhibition of Aboriginal shields from around Australia has opened at the South Australian Museum. Anthropology senior curator Doctor Philip ...

These Aboriginal Groups Are Trying to Halt a Natural Gas Boom in Australia's Northern Territory  - Conservationists and indigenous communities in northern Australia are gearing up for a fight, as some of the world's largest energy companies line up ...

The LGBT rights movement is gaining recognition -- and allies -- across Asia  - Businesses across the Asia-Pacific region are embracing the LGBT community. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group decked out these ATMs for ...

Buffett Foundation Makes Record Pledge  - From birth, girls of colour are more likely to face poverty than white girls – over 60 per cent of girls of colour are born to families living on low incomes ...

Suburban dreams - A TV cameraman told me it was the kind of place where people would ask him ... The latter places are owned either by Housing New Zealand or social ...

A Vote On New Zealand's Flag Identity Crisis - After all that work, New Zealand put it to the people . And on Wednesday night, 56 percent (versus 43 percent) of the public voted for the status quo.

Future workforce needs different training  - Tamaki Makaurau MP Peeni Henare says the future of work is a conversation that needs to be had, especially for the generation of young Maori still ...

Iwi essential to future job vision  -  Iwi essential to future job vision. Labour leader Andrew Little says Maori need to play a major role in disuccsions about where jobs will be in the future.

Why are so many New Zealand book reviewers so gutless?  - An essay by long-time bad dude Iain Sharp on the state of book reviewing in New Zealand – and the preponderance of witless fucking “round-ups.”.

Maori mix makes for better building  -  Maori mix makes for better building ... is to help people in those professions work better with Maori clients and stakeholders, all people in New Zealand  ...

Young New Zealanders tipped the balance to keep their old flag flying  - More than a quarter of New Zealanders today are foreign-born, compared with 20.6 per cent in Canada. ( New Zealand's indigenous Maori occupy a ...

PNG Women in Leadership launch new website  - Young people nowadays love the internet and are not so keen about reading books or most have simply lost sight of the true Papua New Guinea ...

The LGBT rights movement is gaining recognition -- and allies -- across Asia  - Businesses across the Asia-Pacific region are embracing the LGBT community. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group decked out these ATMs for ...