Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

It's time to axe the unkindest cut of all for baby boys — circumcision  - Most Australian parents opt to keep their boys intact, but among certain ... Do parents have the right to modify, some would argue mutilate, their child  ...

Obsession with youth creates discrimination  - All too often, older Australians tell me that they are made by society to feel like a burden rather than someone who has spent their life contributing to ...

Aurukun review is shameless and disgusting, says Noel Pearson  - Six weeks ago the school principal was car-jacked and other teachers in the school, run by Noel Pearson's Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy, ...

Aboriginal Art Exhibit Brings New Light to Primitive Australian Paintings  - Roebourne is a sparsely populated and remote region in mining country, with many of the paintings in this collection depicting the dramatic bright red rocks scattered throughout the flat desert. The people of the desert tend to use more of the traditional Aboriginal colors (rust, black, gold and white) as opposed to the brightly colored seashells you see painted by the people of the coast.

Future leader wins Aboriginal Student of the Year  - The Lloyd McDermott Development team is made up of indigenous rugby players from across Australia . Mr Charlton-Walker wants to continue with his ...

Mosaic helps Muslim and Aboriginal communities piece together old and new connections  - An art project at an Islamic school in Melbourne's north has led to a remarkable cultural exchange between the country's oldest Australians , some of ...

 Muslim homophobia in spotlight after gay nightclub massacre  - The mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando by a radicalised man who proclaimed to follow Islam has prompted strong reaction from several ...

Islam threat ignored with a gay abandon  - ANOTHER week, another act of Islamist violence, another hate preacher arriving in Australia to spread his poison, another homegrown hate preacher ...

Seniors forced to wait ages for residential care  - COTA Australia chief executive Ian Yates said a system that assesses an older person as needing care but then makes them wait months before they ...

Indigenous women subject to horrifying levels of violence  - Would indigenous women and children feel safer if constitutional recognition, or even a treaty, eventuated in Australia ? The answer must be a ...

Indigenous Plurinationalism Requires Respect, Understanding  - What Indigenous Peoples are seeking in terms of self-governance is more akin to plurinationalism than the assimilationist blueprints given by most nation states and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Plurinationalism enables people to form their own constitutions with laws, government, territory, and cultural life that is congruent with their history. Plurinationalism does not require secession 

Closing the gap - $24m for Indigenous schooling  - YOUNG Indigenous women in Tamworth will benefit from a $24 million ... The Clontarf Foundation and Role Models and Leaders Australia will each ...

Investing in the future of Indigenous Youth  - The Coalition is investing the money from July 2016 in a range of projects to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians throughout their ...

Gay Men Wanted to Donate Blood in Orlando. They're Still Not Allowed To.  - There were many gay men who would have liked to help but couldn't. ... In 2000, Australia replaced its own indefinite ban on MSM blood donations ...

Tension at funerals for victims with anti- gay protest, irate driver  - Funerals for two of the 49 victims killed in the shooting at a nightclub in Florida have been marked by tense scenes, as an impatient driver was ...

Australia's same-sex marriage plebiscite is unnecessary, wasteful and dangerous  - And yet, pretty much in direct contravention of such unassailable notions, Australia is headed for an utterly predictable and preventable social ...

End of the line for Nigh-oh and Para-pa-rumu  - We should be pronouncing Māori kupu correctly, there's no doubt about that, and we all have a responsibility as Māori and as New Zealanders to do ...

Key defends 'disappointing' refugee quota at opening of new resettlement facility  - Former refugee Faisal Farghaly says, “I love the Maori culture. From the beginning I come to New Zealand , they make us a ceremony here and we go ...

Humility the key for historic walk  - Social activist Vivian Hutchinson, a veteran of the 1975 Maori Land March, says it's humbling that when march instigator Andrew Judd was elected ...

90-day trials fail to deliver jobs for Maori  - A new paper prepared for Treasury by economic research firm Motu has found 90-day work trials has failed to increase the likelihood of Maori being ...

Role sought for wardens in child protection  - The New Zealand Maori Council is looking at ways Maori wardens could become involved in child protection work. Having resolved an internal ...

Green MPs on Parihaka peace hikoi  -  Māori are severely underrepresented at council tables around New Zealand, and it is important that mana whenua have the power to decide what ...

Luhut warns Papuans of fatal threat of narcotics and HIV/AIDS  - It is important for religious and community leaders to know that millions of Indonesian have been addicted to narcotics," Luhut, who is a on visit here, said on Saturday.

Orlando shooting is the latest chapter in global fight for LGBT rights  - Those who failed to acknowledge the sexuality of the victims or the motivation for the crime include the pope and New Zealand Prime Minister John ...