Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Gender theory slap for religious charity relief - They suggest that specialist LGBTI services help in recovery efforts and recommend consideration of “facilities, such as bathrooms, toilets and ...

Tonga's LGBTI community wants law change - Tonga's LGBTI community has called on government leaders to revise legislation in order to protect LGBTI people. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and ...

Melbourne Pride Ditches News Corp Australia Sponsorship After Community Outcry - 

More Australians entering the golden years  - Tasmania and South Australia have the highest proportions of older people and the lowest proportions of both children and working age population.

The myth of 'over-funded' Indigenous communities - For instance, Roebourne in Western Australia's Pilbara is said to have 67 service providers with over 400 programmes for less than 1,200 residents.

SA government aims to sign treaty with Indigenous Australians within 12 months - Jay Weatherill's government says it will begin treaty negotiations with Indigenous South Australians with the aim of signing an agreement within 12 ...

Sovereignty: Same indigenous stories, fresh telling - I think it is perhaps true that southeast Australian indigenous art hasn't had the same profile on a national scale,” he says. Sovereignty is at the ...

Australians have far too much in common to divide over a treaty -  It is hard to pick the instant when the movement to recognise Aborigines in the Constitution died. There were signposts. An early one was prime ...

Indigenous art exhibition Who's Afraid of Colour redefining the genre -  But an unprecedented exhibition of more than 100 female Indigenous artists at the National Gallery of Victoria is challenging what aboriginality and Aboriginal art is "meant" to look like. Paintings, photographs and video installations, alongside traditional woven objects and bark paintings, are among the more than 200 works on display in the Who's Afraid of Colour exhibition.

Tasmania adds 'missing chapter' to constitution, officially recognising Indigenous owners - A change to formally recognise Aboriginal Tasmanians unanimously ... Today, Tasmania joined the other Australian states by making that change ...

Indigenous treaties 'just playing games with words' - This assessment, from constitutional lawyers Greg Craven and Anne Twomey, comes after moves toward state-based treaties with Aboriginal communities emerged in Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Professor Craven, vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, said state governments were misleading Aboriginal communities and raising false expectations by holding out the prospect of treaties.

Australians Of The Year reveal objects of affection - Queensland's Australian of the Year Emeritus Professor Alan Mackay-Sim has leant the National Museum of Australia a gigantic fibreglass nose that ...

School Kids Get Cruel, Homophobic Xmas 'Gift' Handed To Them On Bus - Marriage Alliance identifies itself as a grassroots movement that “educates Australians about the consequences of same sex marriage on our lives.”.

Melbourne woman gifts gay brother and his partner two babies after becoming their surrogate - A SELFLESS sister who vowed to help her gay brother and his partner become parents, has made their baby dreams come true, not once but twice ...

Facebook And Headspace Join Forces To Combat Youth Suicide - School Support National manager Kristen Douglas told the ABC said figures out of the Australian Bureau of Statistics show youth suicide  ...

Year of safety list changes, mental health issues and rise of drones - On this side of the globe, Australia delayed implementation of new and science-based pilot fatigue prevention regulations, instead deciding to review ...

Corrections chief Ray Smith reveals his contract has been extended through to 2019 - here was also a riot at Spring Hill in 2013, a murder at Christchurch Men's in 2015, and despite efforts the re-offending rate reduction target has not been met. A Stuff Circuit investigation features an extensive interview with Smith in episode five of the series, published on Thursday. The team was granted supervised access to two prisons, Mt Eden and Spring Hill.Smith, who previously served as deputy chief executive of Work and Income and Child, Youth, and Family, was appointed for five years.

School in New Zealand gives teenage Afghan refugee new hope - Noorullah's father worked as an interpreter for the New Zealand Army in Bamiyan province. In 2013, the family were among 50 people from the ...

Australian internet companies forced to block torrent websites - Once the sites are blocked, people who continue to visit the blocked sites will ... Instead, Foxtel or Village Roadshow will have to file and serve a new  ...

Australian man 'racially abuses' Maori teen before bashing friend - An Australian man allegedly hurled racist insults at a young Maori woman before bashing her friend. The 18-year-old Kiwi told 7 News  the Australian man tried to sell them cocaine, admitted he was on some himself, then threatened her and her friends because she was Maori.   

Liquor laws failing to protect those vulnerable to alcohol-related harm - The report also found that Maori and Pacifica communities were more likely to live in areas where no local alcohol policy has been established.

Call for alcohol industry to honour the spirit of the law - Norman is particularly concerned with the report's findings that Māori are more likely to live in an area where no local alcohol policy has been ...

Training will 'change lives' - They will learn some te reo ( Māori language) and whakapapa (genealogy) and grow their cultural identity - as well as becoming able young ...

Fresh faces in newly-elected health board - According to the 2013 Statistics New Zealand Census the Hawke's Bay region's Maori population amounts to nearly six per cent of New Zealand's ...