Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Indigenous ranger programs are working in Queensland – they should be expanded - A 2015 Australian government review quantified the benefits of the national Indigenous ranger program. Using the Social Return on Investment methodology, the review found that an investment of A$35.2 million from government and a range of third parties between 2009 and 2015 generated A$96.5 ...

Australia Day 2018 in Sydney: Record crowds expected as party is split into three precincts - Sydney's Australia Day ambassadors keen to kick off the program launch on Monday with details of this year's performances were forced to answer questions on the debate over changing the date. Indigenous leaders have been pushing for the change in recent years, saying January 26 marks the date ...

The terrible, intoxicating lie of Australian patriotism - White Australians have aids to help us, so that we might forget the widespread and systemic murder and displacement of Indigenous Australians . Intense patriotism, often disguised as a form of all-encompassing, harmonious national unity, is one of them. And the things this patriotism demands from us ...

Star in Southern Cross constellation now known by traditional Aboriginal name - For thousands of years, the Wardaman people of northern Australia have had a name for the smallest of the five stars that make up the Southern Cross. ... Aboriginal name to the fifth star of the Southern Cross," said Dr Duane Hamacher, a senior research fellow at Monash University's Indigenous Study ...

Australia Day trolls target indigenous activist over date row - The Alice Springs councillor and daughter of prominent former Northern Territory politician Bess Price said she had been “disgusted to my core” by the online messages she had received, and blamed “middle-class” Australians with indigenous backgrounds for fuelling the cyber hate. Jacinta Price said ...

Hate-filled opponents will not destroy Australia Day - The tedious greenie fringe-dwellers' debate about Australia Day and our celebration of it on January 26 has degenerated into criminality and hysterical self-loathing. The sub-literate trolls wishing indigenous activist Jacinta Price a painful death and targeting her disabled nephew must face the full force ...

Abbott defends Australia Day date - Former prime minister Tony Abbott says January 26 should be accepted as Australia's national day. The Australian Greens are campaigning for the date of Australia Day to be changed. Greens leader Richard Di Natale believes it's time Australia stops papering over an issue which, he says, has been ...

Blunt warning on crystal meth - This sadly includes damage to a massive number of indigenous communities. In some communities, grandparents, parents and children are all using crystal meth. There is a very big misconception in the community that alcohol is the big issue for indigenous Australians . Nothing could be further from the ...

Why I'm not publicly commenting on the tragic passing of teen girl Dolly Everett - Because as I also work in media as an Opinion writer, I am familiar with the guidelines for reporting suicide put forward by Mindframe, the national media initiative encouraging responsible representation of mental illness and suicide in Australia . And these are very clear – if we want to help prevent more ...

Ashy Bines accused of using doitfordolly suicide awareness hashtag to deflect negativity online - shared a series of screengrabs that appeared to show the personal trainer responding to negative comments on her personal account with the #doitfordolly suicide awareness hashtag set up by the family of Warwick schoolgirl Amy "Dolly" Jayne Everett, who took her own life last week after constant ...

The youth crime scare is class warfare - Crime is largely a by-product of poverty — not one that can be solved by demonising young people and locking children in prison cells. If the Government were serious about stopping crime and violence, then it would fix poverty in Australia . Anything less is pissing in the wind. It's been 30 years since we ...

James Shaw blames New Zealanders' 'silly answers' for ruining LGBT census - You see in the questions on religion, for example, something like 51,000 people put down that they followed the Jedi religion." Mr Shaw says questions on religion and ethnicity went through similar "teething problems" when they were introduced. While Australia asked LGBT questions in 2016, Mr Shaw ...

What's Next? Australian LGBTI Conference Tackles Life After Marriage Equality - It was one month before South Australia would become the first state to decriminalise in September 1975. But undeterred by the immense legislative and social barriers of the time, organisers had placed a sign at the entrance. It read: “This conference is homosexual territory. There is no room for hatred ...

One of the most important dates on the gay calendar has arrived - January marks the start of the LGBTI festival season in Australia and also marks the the time when one of the most important pieces of annual research ... The survey has become an important marker for the MSM community because it gives a snapshot of the lives of gay and homosexually active men in ...

Australian Trans Teens Get Float in Sydney Mardi Gras Parade - For Australian LGBT youth, 2017 brought some good news. In November, 61 percent of Australian voters chose to legalize same-sex marriage. The Senate passed marriage equality the same week the federal Family Court overturned a ruling that forced trans teenagers to apply in court to start cross-sex ...

Billie Jean King Backs Renaming Of Arena Over Margaret Court's Homophobic Comments - Out tennis great Billie Jean King has backed calls to rename Margaret Court Arena over Court's homophobic remarks. As Australia debated whether to legalize same-sex marriage, Court became a vocal opponent. The 75-year-old Court at first said she would avoid Qantas airline for its support of ...

How big data could help combat heart failure in New Zealand - Mining a wealth of untapped health data could reveal new insights into how we age - and help tackle one of the biggest killers of older New Zealanders . A new study, led by medical specialist and Otago University researcher Dr Hamish Jamieson, will trawl through a sprawling national health database to ...

How would New Zealand feel? PM says Trump's alleged 'shithole' remark hugely offensive - How would New Zealand feel if we were described in that way" Jacinda Ardern asked on the AM Show this morning. ... accept more immigrants from Haiti and "shithole countries" in Africa as he rejected a bipartisan immigration deal, according to one participant and people briefed on the conversation.

What does the future hold for NZ's largest farm? -  The Department of Conservation (DOC) is calling for public opinion about how New Zealand's largest farm, Molesworth Station, should be managed. ... "Having lived in the high country myself I know the amount of times that we've rescued people out of huts when there's been big snowfalls, or flooded ...

Explosive” book on Māori language released by academic - Professor Moon has drawn on hundreds of reports and studies to show why the current approach to preserving the Māori language is having the opposite effect, and focuses on what he calls the propaganda of recovery: “Every year, we see a new campaign, and new method, or a new idea which its ...