Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Traditional owners call for water rights one year on from Barkindji native title determination  - However, some Barkindji people said native title had less significance ... "I think Australia needs to look at our first nations' water rights; we were the ...

Not one straight politician knows what it's like': Penny Wong's plebiscite anguish  - Heterosexual politicians fail to grasp the hatred gay and lesbian Australians will endure during a plebiscite on same-sex marriage, Labor frontbencher ...

Health Canada reduces deferral period for sexually active gay men to one year  - Canadian Blood Services and Hema-Quebec will now be allowed to accept blood from men who have had sex with men as recently as one year ago. “It’s certainly a step in the right direction,” Health Minister Jane Philpott said Monday.

Katanning's Imam Alep Mydie says he cannot judge his gay friends  - The imam of one of Australia's most multicultural towns says he is ... It will not surprise Katanning residents that Imam Mydie opposes anti- gay views ...

Australian PM ends longest running Aboriginal land claim  -  Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday settled the nation's longest-running land rights claim, handing ...

Mary G, black queen of the Kimberley calls on Australia to own its history 'warts and all'  -  Aboriginal performer and self-declared black queen of the Kimberley Mary Geddarrdyu, or Mary G, says that when she becomes queen of Australia , ...

Tablet app tries to shed light on Indigenous drinking issues  - Groups trying to curb alcohol addiction in Australia's Indigenous communities say they've been hamstrung by a lack of good information ...

Plans to develop northern Australia not embracing Indigenous population, says Peter Yu  -  Indigenous leader Peter Yu says the Federal Government's current push to develop northern Australia fails to embrace Aboriginal people, and that ...