Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

With his akubra braided with the colours of the Aboriginal flag, Western Australian Senator Pat Dodson is arguably the most recognised Indigenous ... View article...

More than three million people in Australia, including 739,000 children, live ... The people affected include single-parent families, Aboriginal and Torres Strait .... We also see racism in Australia today reflected in migrant poverty. View article...

Croatia-based Milicic is back in Australia this week to name his 23-player ... the local Dharawal Aboriginal people on whose land the Macarthur region sits. ... communities here in the Macarthur region and from all over Australia." ... View article...

As Ironbark Aboriginal Corporation's Trevor Hutchinson says, "a fair day's work is a fair day's play" and indigenous Australians are just as entitled to a ... View article...

"What has happened (to indigenous Australians) is a disgrace," he said yesterday. "It's the biggest stain on our history for 230 years. We talk about ... View article...

The University of the Sunshine Coast student was selected as part of Australia's first indigenous women's football team that recently competed at the ... View article...

Australia's oldest LGBT publication goes into administration -  The Star Observer is an  LGBTI  community-owned not-for-profit that has always relied on advertising revenue to raise money. We do not receive any ...

Marriage equality was only a step on the way to equality for LGBTI+ Australians -  7,817,247 people said YES. That's the number of Australians who voted for Marriage Equality. The moment that number was announced a wave of ...

71 per cent of Australians want a more diverse parliament, poll reveals -  And 17 per cent think more  LGBTI  individuals and Australians born overseas in parliament would be of benefit to Australia. The poll was conducted ...

UNAIDS calls on countries to remove discriminatory laws and enact laws that protect people from ... -  UNAIDS is calling on all countries to remove discriminatory laws against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex ( LGBTI ) people.

"What you are doing with this piece of legislation is actually excluding non-iwi Māori from the role you think you are. "They're here to promote the ... View article...

Sir Hekenukumai Busby has been remembered as a "driving force" for waka building and traditional Māori navigation. About 3000 people gathered at ... View article...

Its findings show of the 800 people estimated to have been living without shelter that night, nearly 43 per cent were Māori, with a similar number of ... View article...

Figures released today from Ira Mata Ira Tangata: Auckland's Homeless Count show a disproportionate amount of Māori, Pasifika, LGBT and disabled ... View article...

SAVE Tumu Kaituna have grave fears that more than 4000 Māori landowners will be cut out of 55 hectares of their land if a proposal - by Tumu ... View article...

Housing First Auckland programme manager Fiona Hamilton says solutions grounded in Kaupapa Māori have worked well at Te Puea Marae in ... View article...

Opportunities for  Indigenous Australians  in aid: what is needed? -  The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has set itself an ambitious agenda to increase the engagement of  Indigenous Australians  in the ...

Indigenous Aussies  take govt to United Nations over climate change -  In a complaint filed with the United Nations (UN) on Monday, an  indigenous  group accused the Aussie government of violating their human rights by ...

YMCA Anglesea skate program helps reconnect  indigenous  youth with country and culture -  Brodie is  Australia's  best known and highest ranking  Indigenous  skateboarder. As well as showing off his skills, he taught a grip tape and board ...

Boom or bust: the issues that matter in  Australia's  largest electorate -  But the end of WA's mining boom, pressures on farmers and a lack of progress in closing the gap with  Indigenous Australians  means that many in the ...

Environmental as anything -  Apparently there's some sort of election happening in  Australia  soon. Danielle Wood is one of  Australia's best economists and her summation of the ...

Senator Dodson on the burning issues of social equity, justice and respect -  With his akubra braided with the colours of the  Aboriginal  flag, Western  Australian  Senator Pat Dodson is arguably the most recognised  Indigenous  ...

LBQT Groups Begin Talks On Protecting The Rights Of LBQT Persons -  a significant number of Ghanaians (87%) are against allowing  LGBTI  persons holding public meetings to discuss  LGBTI  issues. Ninety-one per cent of ...

Aged care services taking action for  LGBTI  seniors -  The Just Better Care team are educating themselves about issues affecting the  LGBTI  community, which will help improve aged care services for ...

Less stigma around  LGBTI  community in India, say Tinder users -  Seventy percent of  LGBTI  Indians surveyed by dating app Tinder believe there is less stigma around the community than there was five years ago.

International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia -  However, discriminatory laws, policies and practices against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex ( LGBTI ) people are still in place around ...

Thirteen per cent of the new officers are Maori, 12 per cent are Pasifika and ... "Our objective is to make New Zealand the safest country in the world. View article...

A 2012 report by the Human Rights Commission pointed out that Māori are three times as likely to be arrested than non-Māori for cannabis-related ... View article...

Indigenous rights advocate Tina Ngata said that his landing was not a cause for celebration. " Māori are still very mamae and we are still labouring ... View article...

Māori providers in Tāmaki Makaurau want Oranga Tamariki to give up some of the power it holds over Māori children and whānau. The providers ... View article...

Rotorua tourism director Tak Mutu wins prestigious Māori business award ... in adventure tourism guiding rafts and sledges on New Zealand rivers. View article...

Help this young Maori boy achieve my goal of becoming the first pro ... Two years on and Gudgeon has his sights set on becoming New Zealand's first ... View article...

We [Australia's Aboriginal population] didn't have suicides pre-colonisation. Now, we're one of the highest in the world in certain age demographics.". View article...

 In a complaint filed with the United Nations (UN) on Monday, an indigenous group accused the Aussie government of violating ... View article...

Since the start of this year, 62 Aboriginal people – 15 of them children – have died by suicide. More than half of them were under 25 years old, and the ... View article...

Election wrap 2019: what each major party will do for Indigenous Australians. Still not sure who to vote for this coming Saturday? With the federal ... View article...

    The residents of the islands located in the Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea say the Australian government is not doing enough to ... View article...

Australian  political leaders agree  gays  don't go to hell -  The leaders of both of  Australia's  major political parties have agreed that  gays  don't go to hell because of their sexual ...

Australian  PM Scott Morrison says  gay  people don't go to hell after being accused of dodging ... -  Australian  Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a Pentecostal Christian, has now told media he does not believe  gay  people go to hell - despite yesterday ...

The Australia Council has just announced its latest round of grant recipients with ... regional touring and international opportunities for Australian artists. ... the council received 1,367 applications for funding across Aboriginal and ... View article...

Former A-League player Brennan becomes first openly  gay Australian  male footballer -  Former A-League player Brennan becomes first openly  gay Australian  male ... "It's taken me years to get comfortable saying this - I'm  gay ," he said.

Israel Folau drops hint that he's accepted fate, removes Twitter image of himself playing rugby -  Having already rejected Rugby  Australia's  offer of a peace deal to let him resume playing, describing the offer as ... to be sacked after refusing to remove the anti- gay  posts after being told they were in breach of the Code of Conduct.

Equity – the only thing that matters in rebuilding a failed healthcare system -  Imagine if  Māori  experienced outcomes similar to non- Māori . Then, and only then, could Aotearoa's health system genuinely be considered high ...

Budget boost locks in prison system change -  Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis says a $98 million Budget injection is a chance to break cycles of  Māori  reoffending. The money is to create a new ...

Tāmaki Collective explores Oranga Tamariki partnership -  Māori  iwi and social service providers in Auckland are keen to form a partnership with Oranga Tamariki to give them more visibility of tamariki  Māori  in ...

Buy from  Māori  business conference call -  The lack of specific measures to support  Māori  businesses will be discussed at a conference in Auckland today. In countries such as Canada, ...

I want to promote our own home grown cuisine that reflects who we are as Māori and as New Zealanders. I want to cook food which we can all relate ... View article...

In the past two years, the amount of services procured from indigenous owned businesses in Australia rose from $6 million to almost $2 billion, leading ... View article...

Most young people locked up across Australia last year had not even been ... Despite making up just 5 per cent of the populations, Indigenous youth ... View article...

... ground mounted solar arrays will be installed in remote Aboriginal communities in the north of Western Australia. The new $11.6 million program, ... View article...

An ambulance bearing Aboriginal artwork is in Kalgoorlie-Boulder to help provide first-aid training to remote Goldfields communities. For the past two ... View article...

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's (AIHW) Youth Justice in Australia 2017–18 report, released on Friday, shows the rate of Indigenous ... View article...

Up to 4MW of solar will be installed across six remote indigenous communities in Western Australia, as part of an $11.6 million plan to slash the use of ... View article...

Australia  election winners urged to take action against anti-LGBT+ schools -  The next  Australian  government must prioritize laws to ban schools from expelling or discriminating ...

Australia  has a fake news problem on WeChat and wants Tencent's help -  While the US is still dealing with the fallout of fake news campaigns in 2016,  Australia  is in the midst of its own misinformation campaign, and it's not ...

Federal Indigenous procurement spending tops $2 billion, but to whose ... Indigenous businesses — reflecting that Indigenous Australians are 3% of ... View article...

Suicide prevention and mental health -  NZ  Maori  Council releases its recommendations into suicide prevention and mental health: Its time the Government got on with it …. The New Zealand ...

Australian  anti- LGBT  Liberal Gurpal Singh will soon appear on Grindr -  The  Australian  Labor Party is to run adverts against anti-LGBT+ Liberal candidate Gurpal Singh on the gay dating app Grindr ahead of a federal ...

Could Te Aroha become New Zealand's LGBT+ capital? -  It's not the spas or the lush dairy lands in the Waikato town but the idea of following in the footsteps of Te Aroha's sister town of Daylesford in  Australia  ...

Maori are still very mamae and we are still labouring under the historical and enduring rights violations as a result of the event that they are ... "The unchallenged account reported by Radio New Zealand is unsupported story-telling. View article...

A continued focus on the New Zealand Olympic Committee's integrity ... on Tikanga Maori and ensuring its seamless inclusion across the organisation ... View article...

The New Zealand Maori Council has come out in support of the Governments much anticipated Zero Carbon Bill and has welcomed a focus on the ... View article...

A replica of the Endeavour will also arrive in New Zealand. "I hope that there is haka on the shore," Tamaki said. "Not in a good way, like a welcoming ... View article...

At the first of the university's Māori pre-graduation Te Heika Pounamu ... and more broadly in Māori staffing within the New Zealand research system, ... View article...

Fears tourism providers exploiting Māori culture for profit ... New Zealand still has a long way to go to properly value Māori culture and language, ... View article...

Ramadan: The holiest but loneliest time of year for many  LGBTI Muslims -  As the Muslim world gets stuck into observing and celebrating the holiest month on the Islamic calendar,  LGBTI  Muslims are preparing themselves in ...

LGBTI  group compile 'Pink List' of queer-friendly Indian politicians -  The largest election in history is underway in India, and  LGBTI  groups are ...  LGBTI candidates feature in the first list as they are leading the way for ...

Defiant Cuban  LGBTI  activists hold unprecedented indie pride parade -  Defiant Cuban  LGBTI  activists hold unprecedented indie pride parade Cuban gay rights activists held an unauthorised independent pride parade in ...

Eurovision gay host reveals why he's donating fee to  LGBTI  youth charity -  Eurovision host Assi Azar responds to anti-Israel boycott | Photo: Instagram A lot of young queer kids growing up wishing they could host the ...

LGBTI  advocates slam upcoming Dallas visit by Brazil's anti-gay president -  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro recently cancelled a trip to New York City after backlash promoted businesses to distance themselves from him.

California parents remove children from school over  LGBTI -inclusivity lessons -  Parents in California have removed 650 children from a school district in a one-day protest over  LGBTI -inclusivity lessons. Rocklin Unified School ...

Gay rugby boss says Israel Folau's Instagram posting dangerous -  Jason Garrick, president of Queensland's gay and inclusive rugby club, the Brisbane Hustlers, has also been moved by the support for the  LGBTI  ...

Cuban  LGBTI  activists hold impromptu Pride march in defiance of government ban -  LGBTI  rights supporters have held an unauthorized Pride march in Cuba, despite government warnings not to. Over 100 people took to the streets of ...

    AEC officials are travelling around the remote NT to enable Aboriginal people to vote, but enrolment numbers remain well below the rest of Australia. View article...

MAGNT aspires to be a leader in finding a true path to reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. With 26% of the Northern ... View article...

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Major sponsor quits rugby player Israel Folau over anti- LGBT  posts -  A major sponsor has ended its ties with  Australian  rugby player Israel Folau a day after he was found guilty of breach of contract for posting anti- LGBT  ...

Folau 'shouldn't suffer an employment penalty' for views, Shorten says -  The controversy over Rugby  Australia's  response to Israel Folau posting anti- LGBT social media posts has crossed over into the election campaign ...