Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Principals homophobic slur; No “ gay children” here - Keysar Trad, Muslim community spokesperson and president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Council, said students are strictly taught sex is an ...

Home is Where My Heart Is  - ‘Home Is Where My Heart Is’ will coincided with Homelessness Prevention Week, exhibiting the works of brilliant young photographers who have been partnered with other youth who have experienced the struggles of life without a home.

Australian LGBT Awards Launched  - A new series of awards for LGBTI people have been launched. The new LGBT Australia Awards aim to help Australia effect change on LGBTI Equality Laws, which currently lag behind many other developed nations when it comes to these key areas of human rights.

Adam Giles reneges on promise to release latest juvenile detention report - As the fallout over the Don Dale abuses continues, a leading Indigenous educator has asked “what is wrong with Australia ?”, and said the staff shown ...

Canadian path to recognition not for Aussies, tribe warns  - Spokesman Reuben George supported the fight by Australian indigenous people to strengthen their rights. “Canadian First Nations peoples are ...

No responsible adult relative for bail purposes 'is not uncommon'  - He said Australians could borrow from Aboriginal tradition by letting everyone who had something to say be heard. “That's a consensus style of ...

IndigenousDads Is The Perfect Response To Bill Leak's Racist & Offensive Cartoon  - Last week The Australian published a controversial image by cartoonist Bill Leak, which was deemed both “racist” and “insulting” to Indigenous  ...

Hunt For The Wilderpeople on Instagram - Some of the other crew members were hired as “attachments” (a sort of paid internship position) through an initiative by Screen Australia's Indigenous  ...

Iwi leaders sign covenant to protect NZ children  - Iwi leaders have signed a covenant promising to protect the nation's children. The covenant was written by Judge Carolyn Henwood and commits to ...

Here's How the LGBT Olympic Athletes Are Doing at the Summer Games  - We’ve mentioned the out male Olympians competing at the Rio 2016 Summer Games, but we wondered how all the openly LGBT Olympic athletes are doing. So here’s a rundown of each athlete’s performance, arranged by chronologically starting with those who have already finished  

New Zealand's large, fragile mountains face twin threats  - Record-droves of tourists don't pay an entry fee, but leave waste that has to be removed by helicopter, while an increase in rockfall avalanches has caused house-sized boulders to tumble from the Southern Alps.

Survey takes the measure of high-tech marketing  - Concentrate managing director, Owen Scott, citing research from the New Zealand Technology Industry Assocation NZTech, said there were 28,000 hi-tech companies in New Zealand, employing over 100,000 people and contributing eight percent of GDP. (A relatively small sample of 323 participated in the 2015 survey.)

Bylaw business unusual for anti-smoking push  -  Maori public health service Hapai Te Hauora is welcoming Auckland Council's consideration of a bylaw to ban smoking in some open spaces.

Beer labels depicting revered Maori ancestress and stories removed  - Beer labels depicting revered Maori ancestress and stories removed ... perspective and its importance, to not only us but to New Zealand Aotearoa.

Young hope for Cook Islands' reo  - Kohanga reo or language nests, were established in the early 80s for New Zealand Maori and use an immersion based approach to revitalise ...

Māori Olympians excel at Rio Olympics  - Rooney is the second NZ athlete to win a medal in shoot-trap since Ian Ballinger first won bronze in 1968. However, for many of our Māori Olympians, ...