Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Four arrested over UPNG student rampage  - charged four people in relation to the violence on the University of Papua ... Most students are ready to go back to class, but there are people , mainly ...

Mail-order wine pioneer becomes Australia's biggest environment donor  - After selling Cellarmasters in 1997 he and his late wife, Barbara, created 6m hectares of land under private conservation or Indigenous protection.

Aboriginal bush lessons improve education for outback Queensland kids  - Identity is such a big thing for Aboriginal students in Australia , and some research shows that they may even be clinging to the negative stereotypes of ...

Only Labor has a plan to close the Gap  - A Shorten Labor Government will reset relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in a renewed push to close the gap on ...

Port Hedland indigenous hostel closes as federal funding dries up  - An Indigenous -run hostel in Western Australia's Pilbara has been forced to close its doors after failing to secure new funding from the Federal ...

Read the heart-breaking story behind this gay man's amazing dance videos  - Gerrard heralds from Australia but has been living in London for the past year. He works shifts as a security guard but also does some modeling, ...

We Call Out Homophobic Clerics, But What About The Rabbis?  - I'm sure that the Murdoch press has been challenging Muslim leaders because of its heartfelt concern for gay people in Australia . Due to this touching ...

Politicians Trevor Young and Giz Watson agree to disagree on same-sex marriage issue  - However Ms Watson, the first openly lesbian parliamentarian in Australia , has played a significant role in lesbian and gay law reform in Western ...

Debate Over Gay Blood Donations  - Days after the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, House members ... Australia , for example, saw no change in risk to the blood supply after it ...

Lessons from Brexit for New Zealand  - It was a vote for change – but change of a sort that was opposed by a sizeable number of Brits. Are there lessons for New Zealand in the rage that lay ...

Tickled' is no laughing matter  - When David Farrier, a journalist in New Zealand , saw a video of “competitive tickling,” in which strapping young men were held or strapped down and ...

University kete now on a stamp  - He was not only the first Maori to graduate in medicine in New Zealand , he is also revered as a great son of Taranaki, a leader, and a doctor among ...

Did the Spanish or Chinese visit New Zealand before Polynesians?  - But the addition spurred a riposte from Paul Moon – one of New Zealand's ... Some advocates of this thinking claim that Maori then poured into the ...

Academics challenge government on water rights  - However, Victoria University School of Māori Studies senior lecturer Maria Bargh said all three of these bottom lines would lead to Treaty breaches.

Weaving love and art  - I wove a whole new piece at the back so Mum can rest on me, so I'm behind ... talk about Maori and Pakeha, but about all of us as New Zealanders .".