Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

LGBT activists to protest against Australian Christian Lobby for its "bigotry and fear-mongering" - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender ( LGBT ) advocates are planning to protest the National Conference at Wesley Mission on April 23, which will ...

Airport security wanted to confiscate this man's husband's ashes  - My husband died while we were in Australia .” She just looked at me and said, “I need to take this away.”' Gay marriage is not recognized in Hong ...

The dirty secret of Indigenous Australia  - Nine years after the Howard Government's "intervention" conditions are dire for Indigenous Australians who are "denied consistent running water, ...

Jim Hagan, pioneering indigenous activist, dies at 83  - In 1964, he was a founding member of the Cunnamulla Australian Native Welfare Association, in west Queensland, and among the first local ...

Thousands on hold over elective surgery  - A survey suggests 170,000 people needing elective surgery are not even ... Later this month, the ministry will release new figures giving a more ...

Someone is going to get hurt or die'  - There has since been as many as 20 boats in the area at any given time, with people diving and fishing as the Rena wreck rests as deep as 56m ...

Govt wants minimum wage for disabled workers  - But Sacha O'Dea of the Ministry of Social Development said the permit scheme treated people with disabilities differently from other New Zealand  ...

NZ Land Wars not complusory learning - Minister -  Māori MPs were last month urged to back a petition calling for a national day to commemorate the New Zealand land wars, and support the history of ...