Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Alice in Wonderland over her ancestry PEOPLE  - I live in Holland. My mum was adopted and her parents brought her here when she was nine. I’ve since met my beautiful family and saw my nana for the first time in Darwin last year. My amazing cousin, Jeff Lyons, showed me Darwin and brought me to all the family members.

Black Comedy star Nakkiah Lui on how humour is sparking fresh thinking on Indigenous issues  - As momentum grows for constitutional recognition for Australia's first peoples, a group of Aboriginal performers have taken a new approach to ...

With $1bn, blinding trachoma can be eliminated in four years – experts  - Achieving the goal would include eradicating trachoma in Australia , where it affects Indigenous communities in remote areas of the Northern Territory ...

Creating more than hope  - Hope does not resolve the constant state of powerlessness, forsakenness and oppression that many Indigenous Australians experience. Using hope ...

Conservatives love to hate political correctness, but the left should rail against it too  - By far the most insightful person on Australia's Q&A program this week was the ... I support same sex marriage, yet am deeply uncomfortable with the ...

Gay Western couple win Thai surrogacy battle for baby Carmen  - A gay couple from the United States won an appeal on ... including accusations in 2014 that an Australian couple had abandoned their ...

Increasing suicide rate in Australia highlights social crisis  - An Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report, Causes of Death Australia , 2014, released last month, revealed a sharply rising suicide rate over the ...

Studies Show Austerity Policies Exacerbate US Suicide Epidemic  - Another study, this time out of Australia , discovered a similar pattern in that country. It found that almost 35,000 extra suicides occurred when the ...

Disaggregate or discriminate – are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders really only 10 years ...  - It is estimated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' life expectancy is 10.6 years lower than ...

30 years after Chernobyl, Australia still hasn't learned to leave uranium in the ground  - Our Russian friends were left in no doubt that Aboriginal communities wanted the uranium to stay safely in the ground, undisturbed.' The Tanami ...

Explainer: the largest language spoken exclusively in Australia – Kriol  - The correct answer – Kriol – is not a traditional Indigenous language, but refers to the creole language spoken across swathes of northern Australia .

Perth's most generous nomad trades yurt for raft on Swan River  - He will host more dinners on the raft, this time with local Aboriginal elders ... "I want to start conversations about how to create an Australia we are all ...

Discrimination alive and well within Australia's borders, warns Save the Children as they launch ...  - The fact 9 out of 10 Australians think most Indigenous children aren't ready to learn when they start primary school paints an unfairly bleak picture, ...

Gladstone students launch campaign for elderly in poverty  - The campaign quickly gained support from Grandparents Australia and Grandparents Victoria, as well as Senator Dean Smith, an advocate of support ...

ISIS Kills Gays: LGBT Activists Threatened in Bangladesh  - A Bangladeshi LGBT rights activist has been hacked to death by suspected Islamic States militants along with his friend in the same apartment in ...

Should New Zealanders be allowed to import sperm to cope in a drought?  -  New Zealand not only has a man drought, we're also in a sperm drought. The well-documented shortage of sperm donors is arguably because there is ...

Migrants paying thousands to stay in NZ  - Temporary migrants fighting to build a life in New Zealand say it's costing them ... "I have heard different cases, some people got it really easily in three ...

Funding needed to keep Healthcare Service open for vulnerable youth  - The free clinic offers primary health care to marginalised youth communities including those from low socio-economic areas, the homeless, Māori and ...

Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara sign development agreement  - The question is, will Māori get a foot in the door of the new homes? It's is a million dollar deal for Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara. 400 homes will be built on ...

The Kumeu Arts Centre celebrates Papatūānuku  - Papatūānuku is the title of an art exhibition at the Kumeu Arts Centre. In Māori mythology, Papatūānuku is the mother of all things; plants, trees, birds ...

Artist inspired by Maori culture and Pakeha identity  - After studying his masters in Maori visual arts at Massey University, Pearce identified himself as Pakeha and felt inspired to paint his self-reflective ...

Porirua showed its strength and kindness while under fire  - The help centred on the local marae and the work of Maori wardens, an institution that has recently been criticised because it still has the right to ban ...

New Maori TV show Sidewalk Karaoke takes to the streets, and the world  - This isn't any old singing competition, this is Sidewalk Karaoke - a new Maori Television show which hasn't even aired in New Zealand yet, but the ...

Papua New Guinea court finds Australia's detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal  - They have also both failed in securing a lasting, third country resettlement to resolve the future for the people on Manus and Nauru. In doing so, this ...