Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Reconciling child welfare with culture and identity  - At the start of this century, 4000 Indigenous children , or 2 per cent of the total Indigenous child population, were in care across Australia ; today there ...

Children often hidden victims  - For too long, children have been seen as secondary or lesser victims and not as victims in their own right. The Council of Australian Government ...

Unknown stories of WA's Aboriginal Anzacs highlighted in Perth exhibition  - The stories of the 13 Aboriginal soldiers from Western Australia who fought at Gallipoli are being told in an exhibition at Edith Cowan University.

Young Gay and Bisexual Men are 6 Times More Likely to Commit Suicide  - A study published in the Journal of Public Health reveals that gay and bisexual men below the age of 26 are six times more likely to commit suicide or ...

Malcolm Turnbull predicts marriage equality plebiscite 'will be carried'  - Supporters of same-sex marriage are “unlikely to be disappointed” by the ... Debate in Australia has been marked by controversial material against ...

How Gay Pop Stars Are Winning Over America  - American teens are pining over openly gay male pop stars from the United Kingdom and Australia . Years & Years' lead singer Olly Alexander could be ...

Peccadillo Pictures to tour the UK with a line-up of LGBT films this summer  - It includes HOLDING THE MAN, the powerful Australia drama of gay love in 1980s; THE GIRL KING, a true-life Scandinavian royal lesbian love story; ...

A practical, constitutional promise to do things with Aborigines, not to them  - In asking for these forms of practical constitutional recognition, indigenous advocates understood precisely the purpose and nature of Australia's  ...

Indigenous tribes in Queensland seek balance between tradition, tourism  - Juan Walker, a member of the Kuku Yulanji aboriginal tribe, walks through a small bay in Cape Tribulation, Australia . Walker, a guide, explained what ...

A young campaigner's case against constitutional recognition  - According to Nayuka's personal beliefs, a treaty is a progressive step toward something "real and tangible" for Indigenous Australians . It would provide ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smoking rate drops below 40%  - For the first time the rate of smoking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... However, the rate remains much higher than non- Indigenous Australians  ...

Queensland syphilis cases on the rise, spike in disease among Indigenous youth and gay men  - Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council spokesman Dion ... "This is probably the worst it's ever been, particularly in northern Australia ." ...

Young and old Aussies go crackers for biscuits  - Teenagers aged 14-17 and older Australians aged 65+ are the nation's most avid biscuit-eaters. The 65+ demographic is more likely to eat sweet ...

Aussie musos are Living Below the Line to raise poverty awareness  - For many, living in poverty , $2 a day and, sometimes, less is the norm and ... about social injustice and inequality in Australia and around the world.

LGBT Youths Are Turning To Facebook To Find A Safe Place To Live  - Increasingly, LGBT people like Jeremy and Jasper are turning to “Queer ... The groups have cropped up across Australia's biggest cities and beyond ...

More people being cremated leads to falling revenue for cemeteries  - The council was also considering the impact of a review of how people are buried in New Zealand . The rules regarding funerals and burials could be ...

A Potentially Dangerous New Model for Saving the Environment  - Conservation is important to New Zealanders ; a recent study showed it is at the heart of Kiwi identity. But so is dairy, meat, fruit, and wool production.

Maori turn statistics around  - Bridget Robson, the associate dean Maori at Otago School of Medicine in Wellington, is one of the authors of a report that looked at health, education ...

23-year-old has a beer with the mayor thanks to rangatahi mentoring programme  - He went through in the programme in 2015 with Tori Koroheke, who spoke at the meeting about how it made her embrace her Māori background for ...

Otorohanga youth desperate for better jobs  - There was no hesitation in putting the challenge to Prime Minister John Key during his visit to the King Country, where he met with Māori youth and ...

Poroti locals welcome water bottling plant  - Only yesterday the Waitangi Tribunal announced that it will hear the second stage of water claims with the New Zealand Maori Council indicating that ...

Stars bright and gloomy in Waikato show  - An exhibition at Waikato Museum to coincide with Matariki will examine how Maori understood the night sky and how that knowledge is being ...

US students experience tikanga Māori on the high seas  - A group of students from the United States tested the water on a new international student experience project being introduced by the international ...

Ocean Sanctuary Threatens Maori Constitutional Rights, Say New Zealand Indigenous Leaders  - Te Ohu Kaimoana — a statutory authority created to look after all Maori fishing rights — has filed a legal suit in the New Zealand High Court ...