Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Trump's America Includes Gay Conversion Therapy  - As a survivor of "ex- gay " conversion therapy and the author of a memoir that addresses my experience, I'm often met with incredulity when I talk about ...

Growing up gay : researchers want to talk to you!  - Researchers at UNSW, Australian National University, the University of Western Australia and Deakin University are seeking volunteer research ...

Time to come together on same sex marriage plebiscite  - But if Ireland could get a popular vote carried, surely Australia can - provided the political supporters of the yes case co-operate to help make it happen ...

Do you feel you're getting richer? - But the survey also shows Australia is still a land of poverty and deprivation. The interesting thing is how they go looking for deprivation.The survey ...

Exquisite icons of sing of connection - The West Australian  - In Aboriginal Dreaming, songlines are a map, they define the travel of ancestral beings across the earth and, through their singing, land, water bodies, ...

Northern Territory political parties called upon to address 'justice crisis' ​  - He said Labor was relying on the advice of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (Naaja) “to prevent anti-criminalisation legislation being ...

Uber driver's racist attack against Aboriginal Australians  -  Indigenous rapper Nooky was heading home from work in Sydney on Friday night when he says his Uber driver launched into a racist rant, calling ...

Why Aboriginal moms are more likely to die from homicide or suicide  - A new study has found that Indigenous Australian mothers are 17.5 more likely to be victims of homicide. Since last September, 100 people in the ...

Female Muslim MP Anne Aly and Indigenous MP Linda Burney share common ground  - You're not really Australian because you're brown," Anne Aly was told as an Egyptian-born child growing up among white, freckled children in ...

Territory beauty wows at pageant  - Magnolia Maymuru was also the pageant’s first indigenous woman to be featured, and, despite not taking out the title, has been one of the most talked about contestants this year, for challenging the ideals of beauty.

Same-sex marriage: George Brandis prepares Cabinet submission for plebiscite within year  -  Australians will all be invited to say “I do” on the question of same-sex ... it was not dealing with the important matter of indigenous recognition in the ...

Are Indigenous rangers engaged in 'real jobs'? The answer is simple  - As well as protecting the land, Indigenous rangers play an undervalued role as ... authorities to support large ethnic communities throughout Australia .

In their 50s and older and they love martial arts  - The 57-year- old says he still remembers the phone call in which he was ... His 20-year- old daughter, who will be moving to Australia next year, also ...

When are women having babies and how old is too old ?  - New studies coming out of Australia and the U.K. point out that ... this week confirm people are becoming first-time parents at an older age.

Ben Whishaw on why his gay character resonates with him  - One of the things I loved most was that it was about a gay character who isn't ... Because it wasn't a sensible thing to [pursue]—he's from Australia .

Home HIV tests coming to Australia  - Most people currently go to medical clinics in Australia for HIV tests. ... Higher-risk gay men in Australia who have unprotected sex with men are ...

Bank of PNG to reduce unbanked population  - It is the duty of the Bank of Papua New Guinea (BPNG) to assist financial ... This is to create a higher wellbeing of our people to become wealthy and ...

Maori mosquito sparks up HIV network  -  Maori HIV/AIDs activist Marama Pala says a Red Ribbon award for community leadership given to her organisation INA shows its efforts to raise ...

Housing and money woes stress families  - Superu says Maori , Pacific and Asian two-parent families with younger children are more likely to face financial and housing difficulties when ...

Tuku a great choice.  - Not only did the Maori Party run a candidate in the seat which split Harawira's vote, but it seemed like ninety nine percent of the country had turned on ...

Goodwill needed to bridge urban-iwi divide  - The MP with the largest urban Maori population has welcomed a court judgment on a trust which was supposed to give Maori in cities some return ...

Shared culture a help in coping with poverty  - students who took part in the Youth 2012 study showed strong differences between groups, with one in three Maori adolescents living in poverty.

Ethnic differences in wellbeing of Kiwi familes  -  Mäori , Pacific and Asian two-parent families with younger children are more likely to face financial and housing difficulties when compared to similar ...

Goodwill needed to bridge urban-iwi divide  - The MP with the largest urban Maori population has welcomed a court judgment on a trust which was supposed to give Maori in cities some return ...