Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Kapa haka judges offered reo skills - Senior lecturer Te Kahautu Maxwell says the university has designed a post graduate certificate for assessing te reo Maori in a competitive context.

Tuturuatu short wins Tokyo acclaim  - She says narrating the film in te reo Maori was a way for her to show people through her own eyes. Judges said the sympathy, deep feeling and love ...

As Papua New Guinea faces worsening drought, a past disaster could save lives  - For more than one million people across rural Papua New Guinea, 1997 was a year that will never be forgotten. Drought and frost caused hundreds of ...

What ISIS Does to Gay Men  - The current group of 10 non-permanent members includes LGBT -friendly countries like Chile and New Zealand , but also countries like Nigeria, where ...

How our healthy obsession is doing us harm  - according to the data from the most recent Australian Health Survey, which the CSIRO launched today. So, it seems that we've lumped fruit juice and ...

Adoption process still fails our most vulnerable  - EVERY child deserves to grow up in a permanent, safe and loving family. But for more than 18,000 children in Australia , and millions more around the ...

Senate Inquiry into domestic violence : When are we going to see real action?  - The Federal Senate has been conducting an inquiry into domestic violence in Australia and published its final report and recommendations last week.

Ashley Madison hack: Users commit suicide after emotional breakdown  - Canadian police confirmed that the hacking of adultery website Ashley Madison has led at least two people to commit suicide. It has also sparked extortion attempts. Australian authorities

Is Australia's gay marriage debate being 'stifled'?  - In 2008, the Australian government amended 84 laws that discriminated against same-sex couples. Legislation about everything from taxation and ...

Gay , Straight Couples Say 'I Do' to Justice Kennedy's Words  - Wedding officiants from as far away as Australia said both gay and straight couples are asking them to incorporate excerpts from the ruling into their ...

LGBT-phobia Still Dominates US Sports  - Bells will begin ringing any day now, as high schools and colleges across the country head back into session. Football, field hockey, basketball, and cross country seasons will soon get started, and LGB athletes are more likely than not to experience discrimination from their peers, from spectators, and even from coaches and officials. And according to

Australia's ageing population placing additional demands on hospitals, says AIHW study  - The number of older Australians hospitalised after falls continues to increase due to an ageing population, placing additional demand on the health ...

Running the Kalkarindji meatworks, one of Australia's remote abattoirs  - At just under 500 kilometres from the nearest town of Katherine, the meatworks in the Northern Territory Indigenous community of Kalkarindji may be ...

An app might be the answer to our lack of Indigenous teachers  - We know we need more Indigenous teachers and we've created the courses to train them. ... Australia desperately needs more Indigenous teachers.

Tony Abbott honours Torres Strait war veterans  - He is also the powerful face of the war story that passed most Australians ... "At a time when we hardly acknowledged Indigenous Australians , ...

Digger with Torres Strait Light Infantry finally gets his medals  - It is a remarkable fact that at a time when we hardly acknowledged indigenous Australians , indigenous Australians acknowledged us.

USQ honours top achievers with Alumnus of the Year awards  - It is a recognition of the hard work I have put into my studies and a testament to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians that anything is ...

Islamic State has executed at least 30 gay people, UN meeting told  - The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for executing at least 30 people for sodomy, the head of an international gay rights ...

Schools aim to attract international students to Kiwi classrooms  - About 110,200 international students came to New Zealand in 2014, according to Education New Zealand figures, and the industry is thought to be worth $2.85 billion.

School 'panic' over health and safety changes  - In the absence of not knowing, people are starting to panic. ... going to be very little problem in moving things up to cover all the aspects of the new act.