Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Cormann says 'religious freedom' a pressing issue for government -  Amending existing marriage, charities and discrimination laws to allow 'religious freedom' can only mean more discrimination against  LGBTI  people ...

LGBTI  candidate pushes Japan on  LGBTI  education in schools -  she used a plenary session to push the government about  LGBTI  education and anti-discrimination measures. Tsujigami argued ...

Quiet  Australians ' donating to Israel Folau's legal costs include  GAY  people and Muslims - as footy ... -  A wide range of 'quiet  Australians ' ranging from Muslims and atheists to  homosexuals  have contributed towards Israel Folau's legal fight with Rugby ...

Australia's  first  gay  female Liberal MP joins the House of Representatives -  Queenslander Angie Bell is the first openly  gay  woman to represent a major party in the Lower House - but she wants to be remembered for much ...

The Productivity Commission will decide how programs and policies affecting indigenous Australians should be evaluated amid concerns they are ... View article...

Former Labor leader Mark Latham has attacked the decision of Australia's new Governor-General David Hurley to speak in the Ngunnawal Aboriginal ... View article...

"Australia holds itself out as a diverse and thriving country committed to human rights and equality, but when it comes to violence against Aboriginal ... View article...

Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome led the prayers June 26 for Conaci, an Aboriginal boy from Australia brought to Rome by a Benedictine priest ... View article...

... impact of this service, we want this model of care and these outcomes replicated for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families across Australia.". View article...

"The flag is one of our national symbols and a central part of Aboriginal and Australian identity. The flag should be about people and pride, not profit.". View article...

It has been estimated that alcohol is associated with 40 per cent of male and 30 per cent of female suicides within the Indigenous Australian ... View article...

Perth Motorplex upgrade awarded to local Aboriginal business ... and drive business opportunities for Western Australia's Aboriginal community. View article...

UN rights experts urge more protection for  LGBTI  refugees -  For many  LGBTI  people, the trauma and persecution start well before their actual flight to safety,” the Independent Expert said. “Persecution often ...

Queer artist wants  LGBTI  youth struggling with anxiety to know they can -  LGBTI  people face disproprortionately high rates of mental illness, and struggles with things like depression and anxiety. Morgxn believes it's possible ...

From dick pics to catfishing,  LGBTI  Filipinos reveal all -  The world's largest gay social network, Blued, is tackling some of the biggest issues affecting  LGBTI  Filipinos head on. In the latest series of ...

50 years ago,  LGBTI  individuals stood up... -  50 years ago,  LGBTI  individuals stood up to police harassment at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. Their resistance catalyzed a movement to ...

New figures show the gap between rangatahi Māori and non-Māori being arrested continues to widen. The statistics show the total number of youth ... View article...

An expert witness used in a damning Waitangi Tribunal report says the Crown must take responsibility for Maori health outcomes. The Crown has ... View article...

Gap between Māori and non-Māori youth arrests continues to grow ... New figures show the gap between rangatahi Māori and non-Māori being ... View article...

While Māori saw great potential in the reforms, all parties in the stage one inquiry, including the Crown, acknowledged Māori continue to experience ... View article...

Highly respected Māori leaders have joined social provider Whānau Ora to announce an investigation into Oranga Tamariki. From Monday, new ... View article...

Māui Pōmare was medical officer to Māori from 1901 to 1911 and every year on the last Saturday in June he is remembered at Ōwae Marae, ... View article...

Starting at 9.59am on the same morning and unfolding in real time, each story focuses on a different Māori woman and is linked to the death of the ... View article...

Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu deputy kaiwhakahaere Matapura Ellison said the reserve was an opportunity to show the world mātauranga Māori. "We've ... View article...

Israel Folau unexpectedly defends  LGBT  activist's right to 'express her views' -  Israel Folau unexpectedly defends  LGBT  activist's right to 'express her ... to Folau's own campaign to help in his legal battle against Rugby  Australia .

Nepal holds first pride parade in capital city -  Although Nepal has held  LGBTI  pride events in the past, this was the first march through the city in June. Hundreds of  LGBTI  rights supporters, ...

Police launch tear gas at Istanbul Pride parade in Turkey -  Although homosexuality has been legal throughout the period of the modern Turkish republic,  LGBTI  individuals point to regular harassment and ...

World Pride underscores that all people are born 'free and equal' in dignity and human rights -  Another major barrier is the absence of data on the lives of  LGBTI  people, which the World Bank says puts in jeopardy the achievement of the ...

After 20 years of devolution it's time to complete our journey to independence -  Acts that the Scottish Parliament has passed have been world-leading laws on climate change, child poverty, women's equality and  LGBTI  rights.

The widespread pluses of an inclusive workplace -  Encouraging a  LGBTI -friendly business is positive for staff and customers, but the broader community will also benefit, says Kat Brogan, MD of Mercat ...

8 films to celebrate  LGBTI  Pride Week -  In Pride Week it is easy to find movies in which the LGTBI community is featured prominently.

Pride Foundation Australia launches grant round supporting  LGBTI  people with a disability -  $20,000 in grants will be made available to projects aimed at improving the wellbeing of  LGBTI  people living with a disability in Australia.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women represent 2% of Australia's female population but make up 34% of all women in prison, June Oscar told ... View article...

Art and artists from 30 of Australia's most isolated settlements are in Sydney for The National Indigenous Art Fair at The Rocks all this weekend. View article...

Australian business schools can be doing more to boost the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander business students, according to the ... View article...

Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians take a holistic view of health, which may differ from non-Indigenous Australians, who often take ... View article...

Aboriginal Elder from Bulli calls on Australians not to forget the Dreamtime ... While there are hundreds of stories from the different Aboriginal people ... View article...

Bishop Christopher A. Saunders of Broome led the prayers June 26 for Conaci, an Aboriginal boy from Australia brought to Rome by a Benedictine ... View article...

... Government contracts have been awarded to registered Aboriginal businesses, with 98 per cent of those based in Western Australia demonstrating ... View article...

Aboriginal artist Juanella McKenzie's thank-you present ... An Aboriginal artist who has campaigned against Scottish nuclear waste being dumped in her ... country [in South Australia] — that people in Scotland have taken interest. View article...

Executive director Matthew Tukaki said the focus was now about making change. Lady Tureiti Moxon, managing director of Māori health provider Te ... View article...

Home ownership once signalled something so intrinsic to our national identity – a cultural assemblage of gumboots, fish and chips, pavlova ... View article...

The chief executive of Māori Television, which is a sponsor, Shane Taurima said it was humbling to see Māori achievement and success. View article...

Trevor Bentley's new book, Pākehā Slaves, Māori Masters, details the slave trade in 1800s New Zealand which, as he puts it, was "not something that ... View article...

Closing the health equity gap for Māori, better co-operation between health and social services, and more training for rural GPs to counter Northland's ... View article...

The sudden loss of her brother, Maru, in 1999 had profound effect on Dr Hinemoa Elder, and it still does today. His mental illness stole him from her ... View article...

But the East Coast town had reason to celebrate in style yesterday with the world premiere of a unique Maori language resource celebrating the ... View article...

A highly respected Māori kaumātua died suddenly after speaking at a memorial service held by Māori TV. Charles Eugene Berryman became critically ... View article...

Vladimir Putin claims Elton John is 'mistaken' about  LGBTI  rights in Russia -  The singer also accused Putin of hypocrisy for saying he wanted Russia's  LGBTI  population to be happy. Putin's comments came after gay scenes in ...

Israel Folau has hit out over the ugly attacks levelled at Magda Szubanski -  Folau who has been relatively quiet over the past few weeks while he's locked in a fight against Rugby  Australia  tweeted for the attacks against ...

Gay  Chorus Deep South Plays In Perth For Revelation -  Gay  Chorus Deep South' is a documentation of the San Francisco Men's ... First of all, this is a film about the San Francisco  Gay  Men's Chorus. ... to play in as many places as possible and  Australia  is definitely somewhere where the ...

A gay imam's story: 'The dialogue is open in Islam – 10 years ago it wasn't' -  However, the  LGBTI  community still faces many challenges. This Pride Month 2019, we spoke to Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, a gay Algerian imam who ...

Pete Buttigieg's presidential run endorsed by the LGBTQ Victory Fund -  The Victory Fund is a group dedicated to increasing the number of  LGBTI  public officials in the US. The group has stated it will only endorse  LGBTI  ...

Pink Dot spells it out for the government in Singapore -  Just days before Pink Dot, Singapore's most prominent  LGBTI  event, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong chose to downplay the level of discrimination ...

Australian  LGBT+ liaison police officer takes own life -  Brenton also represented Victoria Police and attended the inaugural World  LGBT  Conference for Criminal Justice Professionals in Amsterdam in ...

Any other  LGBTI  families? -  Hey, We we are a same sex couple from Brisbane having our second. My Wife had our first 3.5 year old boy now, so this is my first pregnancy. Love to ...

First Aboriginal-owned whale watching tours launched in Queensland ... to launch Yalingbila Tours - Australia's first Aboriginal owned and operated ... View article...

The High Court of Australia will have the final word about if the public need permission from Traditional Owners to access popular tourist beaches in ... View article...

The Australian government must invest strongly in Aboriginal community-controlled solutions if it wants better outcomes from the Closing the Gap ... View article...

Overnight the United Nations Human Rights Council heard of the alarming rates at which Australian governments are imprisoning Aboriginal and ... View article...

The Coalition of nearly forty Peak Aboriginal and Torres StraitIslander ... met recently to work withthe South Australian Government and the Coalition of ... View article...

... fly the Aboriginal flag all year-round after a young resident wrote to the mayor asking why it was not flown alongside the Australian and council flags. View article...

First Aboriginal-owned whale watching tours kick off in Moreton ... (QYAC) to launch Yalingbila Tours – Australia's first Aboriginal owned and operated ... View article...

The first Premier's Priority developed in partnership with the Aboriginal ... Language – established Australia's first Aboriginal Languages Trust, under ... View article...

SIR Apirana Ngata's famous 1940 speech at Waitangi where he said Maori serving in World War 2 would be "the price of citizenship" is no reason to ... View article...

Disproportionate number of Māori children taken into care. We meet not long before Matariki, the new year. ..... Elder, both won the Watties Book of the Year Award - which later become the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. View article...

Blaming colonisation and racism for the problems of Māori is the main roadblock to further progress, says the author of the groundbreaking novel Once ... View article...

"We need Māori to speak to Māori, so more Māori lawyers, a Māori social ... The funding increase was a condition of the Labour-New Zealand First ... View article...

More than half of children taken from their whānau by Oranga Tamariki are Māori and the number of Māori children taken by the agency has risen ... View article...

Targeting Māori, Pacific and Asian communities which are disproportionately impacted by gambling harm is a key focus of a new strategy released ... View article...

The Government has announced a $60 million package to fight problem gambling, with a focus on helping Pacific and Asian communities. Associate ... View article...

Sarah-Kay Coulter shares three solutions to promote positive change for the 187731 Māori students in education in New Zealand today and tomorrow. View article...

Pride 2019 in Bogotá: 'I choose to be, I want to live' -  Iván Escobar, one of the coordinators of the activist group, Mesa de Trabajo  LGBTI  Bogotá, told us that it's an important landmark: “This year is very ...

Prince William says it'd be 'absolutely fine' if any of his children come out -  While visiting the  LGBTI  youth homelessness charity, Albert Kennedy Trust (akt), Prince William answered a reporter's question about his response if ...

George Takei recommends a new  LGBTI  children's book -  George Takei has a new recommendation for all you readers out there, no matter the age: The Soulfire Chronicles. From author Chaz Harris (of the ...

Study Shows 39% Of  LGBTI  Youth Considered Suicide In Past 12 Months -  A new report has highlighted the major issue of  LGBTI  youth and suicide, with 39% considering attempting suicide in the past 12 months.

Why The Israel Folau Case Is Not About Freedom Of Speech -  In 2017, when  Australia  was readying itself for the Plebiscite, in which the nation would vote on whether  gay  people had a right to marry, Rugby ...

How a  gay  bar riot changed the world -  Consider  Australian  census data: the ABS counted some 9000  same-sex  relationships in the 1996 census, and that figure increased fivefold to 46,000 ...

How the Stonewall riots inspired  Australia's  LGBTIQ+ movement -  Their actions would change the course of  gay  rights around the world, including as far away as  Australia . This week marks the 50th anniversary of the ...

Australia  delivers verdict on Israel Folau debate in news.com.au poll -  Israel Folau's legal fight to save his rugby career has divided  Australia  ... but shows the increasing acceptance of the  gay  community  in Australia .

The Royal Commission's first Western Australia hearing was held this week in Broome, with a large focus on the provision of care for indigenous ... View article...

In 1838 white settlers murdered 28 Aboriginal men, women and children near Myall Creek Station. The massacre is a reminder of Australia's colonial ... View article...

An Australian business caught selling fake Aboriginal art has been fined $2.3 million dollars in a federal court ruling today, highlighting a thriving ... View article...