Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Arnhem Land community finds success blending Aboriginal culture with modern education - Arnhem Land community finds success blending Aboriginal culture with modern education. The remote community of Yirrkala on the tip of Arnhem ...

National writers celebrate Aboriginal literature on the Far South Coast - The event is open to anyone interested in exploring Aboriginal stories, issues and identity and a unique opportunity for people interested in ...

Brexit is entrenching some dangerous myths about 'British' culture - On one hand, it harks – increasingly since the Brexit vote – back to the age of empire. “A small island perched on the edge of the European continent ...

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Australia's stolen generations: a legacy of intergenerational pain and broken bonds - While Australians attempted to reconcile the truth of the assimilationist policies that had sought to destroy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture ...

NT Intervention achieved 'nothing' - Mutitjulu held the opening ceremony for the National Indigenous ... Many Anangu people who live by Australia's most iconic landmark haven't ...

Indigenous People Worse Off 20 Years After the Bringing Them Home Report - The past is very much with us today, in the continuing devastation of the lives of Indigenous Australians . That devastation cannot be addressed unless ...

50 cent coin and stamp circulating for Indigenous rights - A new 50-cent coin and stamp are going into circulation to commemorate strides in Indigenous rights. Their release marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum and on the 25th anniversary of the High Court Mabo decision - named after Indigenous land rights campaigner Eddie Koiki Mabo. His granddaughter, Piadram and Mumbarra artist Boneta-Marie Mabo, designed the coin which will come into circulation across Australia within weeks. The coin features a picture of her father, as well as pamphlets from the 1967 referendum campaign with the words: 'Right wrongs, write "yes" for Aborigines!'

Canada Announces New Urban Programming for Indigenous Peoples - More than half of Indigenous peoples in Canada live in urban centres. Supporting First Nations, Inuit and Métis where ...

Unequal rights for indigenous , rural women endanger forest lands - researchers -  Indigenous peoples ' and local communities' lands cover more than half the global land mass, and women make up more than half the 2.5 billion ...

Without football, I don't think indigenous Australians would be looked upon in a ... - Sir Doug Nicholls Round is a significant time for our indigenous population, a time when we celebrate the feats of the current crop of ...

Cameroon: 7 in prison on anti-LGBT charges; 58 rights abuses - In Cameroon, seven people have been tried, convicted and are still being held in jail for homosexuality, according to a report by the new National Monitoring Center for the Rights of LGBTI people and their Defenders. Among 58 cases of human rights abuses, the report highlights:

Lib MP blasts Indonesia for gay men caning - An openly gay Liberal MP says the "cruel and sickening" caning of two gay men in Aceh has cast a cloud over Australia's relationship with Indonesia.

Tennis champion Margaret Court boycotts Qantas over same-sex push -  Australia's greatest women's tennis player, Margaret Court, has declared that she intends to boycott Qantas because its chief Alan Joyce and his board ...

Ben and Jerry's in Australia won't allow 2 scoops of same flavor until marriage equality - And now that activism has transcended closer to the equator where gay marriage is still illegal. The nearly four-decades old company is not allowing ...

New age friendly strategy to drive engagement with older South Australians - The strategy sets out South Australia's capacity as an age friendly state, where ... More than 425 older South Australians participated in 50 separate ...

150 years on, another Miklouho-Maclay is off to meet the Papuans - There is Miklouho-Maclay's street in Moscow, and some people are absolutely convinced that my surname is in honor of the street. Also, I have been ...

What about mental health? - It's certainly not going to be enough to actually leave New Zealanders unconcerned that mental health services are coming right." Mr MacDonald said ...

New Zealanders rate honesty, consistency and integrity - There is an old saying that your choice of friends shows who you are and that is reflected to an extent in the Readers Digest list of New Zealand's most ...

Dozens of Māori and Moriori Remains Return to New Zealand from European Museums - The Übersee-Museum Bremen and three other institutions are repatriating 59 Moriori and Māori ancestral remains collected in the 19th century.