Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Bullied gay boy, 13, takes his life - A Brisbane high school principal has offered sympathies to the parents of a gay student who took his own life but says staff did not know he was being ...

Why will Aborigines and other townspeople celebrate Australia Day two days late? - Many Aboriginal communities argue that Australia Day is a day for mourning, not celebration, because it marks the arrival of the first ships from Britain.

National debate about racism gets more interesting - He has devoted his life to the survival of a Aboriginal Australia , no mean feat. Pearson also has lived all his life battling racism, especially in large ...

'My door's always open' - Last year Wilson gave evidence at Australia's first royal commission into ... behavioural change programs did not work for Aboriginal men, she said.

I was set up for abuse by my childhood' - Part of that, particularly with Aboriginal women is being criminalised ... The amendment was argued to be silencing Australia's Indigenous people, ...

Precarious state of our Indigenous languages - Last week the NSW Government announced new measures to protect Aboriginal languages . In the context of seeking to preserve part of Australia's  ...

Nedlands student turns own mental health struggles into way of helping others - “I believe it's a collective approach to solving mental illness in Australia and getting our experts together in one room to brainstorm how we can make it ...

UWA's 'world-first' pole-dancing study - It provides physical and mental benefits for women, who participate in it for exercise. University of Western Australia researcher Joanna Nicholas is investigating how significant those benefits are in what she says is a world-first study ...

South Australian Premier to apologise to the LGBTIQ community for years of pain. - The bills, which have been passed by the lower house, include allowing same- sex couples to adopt and access assisted reproductive technology, ...

My Mother Taught Me How to Choose a Family - We would sit in Washington Square Park with the gay boys, who were always carrying tape decks and dancing to their favorite songs. She would drag ...

Natalie Imbruglia talks about meeting Indigenous Australians for the first time... after admitting she'd ... - Natalie Imbruglia admitted she'd never spoken to an Indigenous Australian before filming SBS documentary First Contact. But the Torn singer has ...

Proposed Indigenous cultural centre for Brisbane gathers support -  It was first proposed three decades ago but Brisbane is still the only capital city in Australia without an Indigenous cultural centre.A group of inspired ...

Filmmaker Warwick Thornton returns to desert to share tale of rough justice in ... - A white station owner lies dead in the red dirt of central Australia . ... "It's important to tell Indigenous stories like this just to remind us of who we are, ...

Liquor trader yet to share millions with indigenous owners - A company lobbying to wind back landmark alcohol restrictions in the troubled West Australian town of Fitzroy Crossing has failed to distribute millions ...

WA Premier Colin Barnett 'extremely disappointed' by Fremantle's decision to cancel Australia Day ... - Mr Barnett said everyone understood the history and debate around Australia Day, but it was a national day and he said most Aboriginal groups ...

Pope sends letter to indigenous Australians -  Pope Francis has sent a letter on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of St John Paul II's words to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Alice ...

Free GPs for teens proposed in poorer areas - HBDHB general manager performance, informatics and finance Tim Evans said whole practices were targeted, as opposed to Maori and Pacific teens, ...

National edges up to 50 per cent in latest poll - But with the Greens on 11 per cent (down two) and New Zealand First on 10 per cent (down one), the three combined make 49 per cent - virtually a ...

New Zealand best place to live in–2016 survey - The other news about New Zealand is much cheerier. ... away from Rotorua, a city and region said to be the cradle of ancient Maori history and culture.

More support helps push Maori and Pacific medical grads to record highs - The largest number of Maori and Pacific medical graduates ever to come out of the School of Medicine in Auckland is the result of a more supportive ...

Rethinking New Zealand's Racist Drug Laws - Our stale drug laws aren't working for Maori . Around 40 percent of Māori in jail are there because of minor drug possession or supply charges. This is ...

Call for Ngāti Maniapoto treaty claim negotiators - The Maniapoto Māori Trust Board will soon call for expressions of interest from iwi members with the right skills to be part of the team to negotiate the ...

This Crew Is Keeping London's Gay Fetish Scene Alive - "I think, by the numbers, that the community itself is growing—you see this in the amount of younger people on Twitter or coming to events," said Or, ...

Why Australians are heading to New Zealand to start businesses -  New Zealand has been the home to Australian expats for years, and now Kiwis ... Our names just keep popping up and people are just like, 'Who's this ...