Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Older women, migrants swell the ranks of Australia's homeless -  The number of people who are homeless in Australia has soared by almost 15 per cent, with newly released Census data showing people living in “severely” overcrowded dwellings are the greatest contributors to this increase. More than 116,400 Australians were homeless on Census night in 2016 ...

Capitalism, Australian Identity and The Threat to Unity - It's the creed behind the slave plantations of the American South, and the squattocracy of early colonial Australia . It's also why the votes of older , privileged Australians – and so-called “aspirationals” – give preference to profit, property, inheritance, tax minimisation and private school connections.

How to report hate crime anonymously in South Africa - He said that a study done by the organisation in 2016 revealed that 44% of LGBTI people had experienced some form of discrimination or hate crime and that 88% of those victims did not report crimes committed against them. This meant that the majority of people from the LGBTI community did not ...

Same-sex couples can now adopt everywhere in Australia! - She continued: “Now that marriage equality has passed nationally, it's important we bring the laws in every state in line with modern community values and remove every last stain of discrimination against LGBTI people from the statute books across this country. Dale Wakefield – Minister for Territory ...

Annual Report 2017 on the List of actions to advance LGBTI equality - The European Commission published in December 2015 the List of Actions to Advance LGBTI Equality to move LGBTI equality forward. The Council adopted the first ever conclusions on LGBTI equality in June 2016 requiring the Commission to annually report on the implementation of the list of actions.

Why Kansas isn't as homophobic as you might think - When people in the rest of the world hear 'Kansas', their first thoughts are likely of Dorothy and Toto. This, of course, is thanks to the amazing staying power of a movie that came out in 1939. I'm grateful to 'The Wizard of Oz because otherwise, people might not think of Kansas at all. Or they would think of ...

It may seem like LGBT rights aren't important to Putin – but if you look closer, you'll see they're ... - Ksenia Sobchak, the only oppositional candidate to openly support LGBT rights in Russia, called the video homophobic : “To turn LGBT people into a threat in a homophobic country is not a joke. It once again fuels discrimination of the minority”. The reality of such propaganda is indeed horrific. Last week ...

Kick It Out 'very worried' by rise in hate crime - When there is a rise of homophobia , a rise of anti-Semitism and a rise of racism, you see that all reflected in football." Kick It Out found that racism was the most common form of discrimination in this year's mid-term report, followed by HBT ( homophobia , biphobia and transphobia) and anti-Semitism.

Beatles photobomb: Iconic photos hides hilarious secret - The Beatles are one of the most recognised bands of all time. You would be hard pressed to find someone who hadn't heard of them or didn't know at least one of their songs. Their Abbey Road album cover is probably the image that comes to mind when most people think of the band and it turns out this ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

Auckland physicist on his lunch with the late Stephen Hawking - The iconic British physicist was revered by those in his field, including a New Zealand physicist who actually met the man himself. ... "Stephen... would have to form words on a computer, so the conversation would kind of ping between several people and he'd chime in with something that had happened ...

Why some survivors don't want to go to the police - I survived. The rest was the fantasy, dreamed up by people who have never had to speak to the police about their rape. There's an uncomfortable fact that has to be factored into any discussion about the 'good' victims who speak to the police: Reporting of sexual violence in New Zealand is devastatingly ...

Chris Owen - requiem for a filmmaker between worlds - But perhaps the most fitting testimony is from PNG filmmaker Martin Maden: 'I do not know of one other culture whose children will inherit a film heritage such as the one Chris Owen has given to the people of Papua New Guinea'. Chris died on 9 March 2018 in the Fred Ward Gardens nursing home in ...

Education Matters to Me reports provide intriguing insight - The results of the surveys paint an intriguing picture of the New Zealand education system from the perspective of a diverse range of students. Subjects included Māori and Pasifika pupils, Pākehā and migrants, from primary and secondary schools, alternative education units, early childhood centres, ...

Sailing into a New Zealand Harbor, and Recreating History - A long time later — in February of this year — a group of sailors recreated Kupe's journey, steering the double-hulled canoes known as waka hourua in New Zealand's indigenous Maori language. The waka, whose crews included a group of teenagers from Maori language schools, were billed as the ...

Maori students face `heartbreaking' issues - A new report on the experiences of Maori children at school shows more must be done to make them feel comfortable and confident, says Kelvin Davis. ... our education system, and work collectively to create a culturally safe place that will make Maori students more comfortable, confident and successful.

Indigenous language education: beyond revival - In Maori we call it the karanga call,” she says. “We greet our guests in the same way.” As the chief executive of the Te Kohanga Reo National Trust, the non-governmental organization that has led New Zealand's revival of the Maori language for more than three decades, Cribb made the trip to share ...

There's no good reason for a sugar tax in New Zealand - If people flip from chocolate bars to crisps, are they really that much healthier? Unsurprisingly, in the real world, sugar taxes have not done much to improve health. But don't just take my word for it. The Ministry of Health commissioned the NZIER ( New Zealand Institute of Economic Research) to review ...

Indigenous identification change between 2011 and 2016: evidence from the Australian Census ... - Growth in the Indigenous population between the 2011 and 2016 Censuses was much faster than would be predicted by our best estimates of fertility and mortality. Part of this faster than projected growth came from a larger number of people who identified as Indigenous in 2016 but not in 2011, ...

White adoptions won't create new Stolen Generation - This would not only safely reconcile culture and identity with child welfare — and avoid any question of a repeat of the Stolen Generations, it would also end Australia's 'apartheid' child protection regime that treats indigenous children differently based on race. Jeremy Sammut is a Senior Research ...

Push to close gap on kids in care - The peak body representing Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has called for a 10-year revamp of the troubled Closing the Gap ... The goals would seek to “eliminate the over-representation” of indigenous children in out-of-home care by 2040 and “address the underlying causes of ...