Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Schools In Australia Have Started Teaching Students About Male Privilege - As I left school two years ago, the traditional sex education that we'd received was only just starting to change. I attended a comprehensive all-girls ...

Is this the first man to be killed by a boomerang? 800-year- old skeleton bears weapon's trauma ... - Researchers believe trauma wounds found on a 13th century skeleton discovered in Australia are consistent with a sharp wooden object like a fighting ...

The shifting goal posts of the retirement age in Australia - But if you're like most older Australians , you're probably asking why that should even be a reason for increasing the retirement age in the first place?

What you can do to improve your Indigenous representation - As the recent Showcasing Creativity research from the Australia Council reveals, only 2% of the 6000 works programmed in the 2015 season by 135 ...

Light shed on history of Australia's first people - He has filled many roles over his life, including farmer, teacher, Aboriginal ... Also, he said Indigenous Australians in the Alps used to live in stone ...

Ancestral remains returned to Aboriginal elder after 90 years in moving ceremony - ANCESTRAL remains have been returned to an Aboriginal leader more ... The repatriation is part of an Australian Government programme assisting ...

Some Nauru Island Detainees See Suicide as the Only Way Out - Human Rights group Amnesty has called for Australia to recognize the poor conditions of their detention centers on Nauru Island. However, is it too ...

Australian Schools Will Teach A Gender Equality Class To Prevent Domestic Violence - The Respectful Relationships program was trialed in Victoria, Australia and is now going to be implemented in all of the state's public schools over the ...

Gay Liberal MP Tim Wilson: 'We Are Not Victims' - Wilson said it would be a "great day for our country" when marriage equality is legalised, and would make Australia "a more perfect Commonwealth".

Outcry over slaying of openly gay man in Papua New Guinea - A Papua New Guinea gay rights activist at a recent LGBTI Youth Forum in Sydney, Australia , said gay boys and men in Papua New Guinea typically ...

Cartoon was not news to indigenous realists - days and weeks after The Australian newspaper published a cartoon that is now central to a debate about free speech, social media feeds were ...

A dream finish to indigenous football and netball carnival for Ballarat team - A dream finish to indigenous football and netball carnival for Ballarat team ... Hi I'm Emma, I'm new to Australia and looking for friends. I would like ...

Twelve extraordinary Aussies picked for NSW Australian of the Year - Familiar national heroes like burns survivor and ironwoman Turia Pitt and indigenous activist Stan Grant are up for the prestigious awards, alongside ...

I am young, I am gay, I am black': First openly gay Indigenous MP delivers stirring maiden speech -  Australia's first every openly gay, Indigenous MP, Chansey Paech appeared in the Northern Territory parliament yesterday to give a historic speech.

Foundation launches million-dollar plan to record Australia's songlines - One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every year, say experts who estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous languages will be left ...

Malcolm Turnbull claims same-sex marriage will affect “every Australian” - He said on ABC: “It affects not just LGBTI Australians, it affects everybody… the way your proposition would go is you'd say the only people that should ...

How can you criticise me about my culture? - Also, what it means to be Maori in the 21st century is to be culturally diverse. Surely, no one can go through life in Aotearoa/ New Zealand without ...

Programme for Māori and Pasifika students launches - TupuToa will provide paid internships for tertiary students with some of New Zealand's leading corporates, and will provide early-career support to ...

Provisional statistics show increasing number of suicide deaths in NZ -  Māori suicide death numbers are down by one from last year with 129. Within this total, Māori male suicide has dropped by 10 from last year and ...

Behind the beauty of Indonesia's Raja Ampat islands lie poverty and neglect - But the appeal of the image hides the abject poverty of the people living on the islands. A cluster of islands in the Bird's Head peninsula of West Papua  ...

Are the Maori separate and equal? - When Europeans encountered the islands in the late 18th century, the Maori inhabitants possessed a tribal culture with splendid visual arts and an ...

Rehab options ignored for more prison space - The chief executive of the National Urban Maori Authority says no good will come out of the government's investment in more prisons. Corrections ...

Documentary on Maori anthem a nostalgia trip for Kiwis - The late Dalvanius Prime might sound like a minor character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but in ...

Council welcomes first female Māori Councillor - I am proud to see this milestone - the election of the first female Māori Councillor,” Mayor Lester said. “Wellington is a diverse city and we welcome ...