Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Malcolm Turnbull claims same-sex marriage will affect “every Australian” - He said on ABC: “It affects not just LGBTI Australians, it affects everybody… the way your proposition would go is you'd say the only people that should ...

How can you criticise me about my culture? - Also, what it means to be Maori in the 21st century is to be culturally diverse. Surely, no one can go through life in Aotearoa/ New Zealand without ...

Programme for Māori and Pasifika students launches - TupuToa will provide paid internships for tertiary students with some of New Zealand's leading corporates, and will provide early-career support to ...

Provisional statistics show increasing number of suicide deaths in NZ -  Māori suicide death numbers are down by one from last year with 129. Within this total, Māori male suicide has dropped by 10 from last year and ...

Behind the beauty of Indonesia's Raja Ampat islands lie poverty and neglect - But the appeal of the image hides the abject poverty of the people living on the islands. A cluster of islands in the Bird's Head peninsula of West Papua  ...

Are the Maori separate and equal? - When Europeans encountered the islands in the late 18th century, the Maori inhabitants possessed a tribal culture with splendid visual arts and an ...

Rehab options ignored for more prison space - The chief executive of the National Urban Maori Authority says no good will come out of the government's investment in more prisons. Corrections ...

Documentary on Maori anthem a nostalgia trip for Kiwis - The late Dalvanius Prime might sound like a minor character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but in ...

Council welcomes first female Māori Councillor - I am proud to see this milestone - the election of the first female Māori Councillor,” Mayor Lester said. “Wellington is a diverse city and we welcome ...

How Brunch Became a Battleground in Australia's Intergenerational War - The growing divide between young and old Australians comes back to fear too. Namely, millennials are scared they'll never have the security of ...

Deep Water' Is The Crime Show That Every Australian Should Be Watching - Inspired by the real-life murders of gay men in Sydney in the '80s and '90s, many of the crimes depicted are still unsolved (and unpunished) to this day ...

How Australian Actress Brenna Harding Was Born Into Her Activism - How Australian Actress Brenna Harding Was Born Into Her Activism ... and media representation—a significant step for Australia's LGBT community.

More Australian children living in poverty today than 10 years ago - While Australia has enjoyed 25 years of uninterrupted growth, it seems to have done little to reduce the number of children living in poverty .

How your charity helped to free me from poverty - She stands shoulder to shoulder with the boys in her class and because she is receiving an education in Australia , and I know she will have the ...

Govt to 'focus on economy' to reduce poverty -  Australian Council of Social Service released the report showing that more than 730,000 Australian children are living in poverty , with those living in ...

Mapping and Imagining WA shows how the west was wondered - West Australian indigenous artist Julie Dowling paints a sinister scene of ... Unknown Land: Mapping and Imagining Western Australia is at the Art ...

Atlantic Philanthropies project to boost indigenous leadership - The University of Melbourne last week became the lead institution for one of the biggest single philanthropic projects in Australian history. The size ...

Juvenile detention officer urinated in toilet and told boy to drink it, inquiry told - While the inquiry is examining the entirety of the protection and detention systems in the territory, Indigenous people are vastly overrepresented in ...

Significant Indigenous artworks to be auctioned off in Melbourne - A comprehensive international collection of Indigenous Australian artworks has come home. Owned by US tech magnate, Stephen Luczo, and his wife ...

South Australia's always led the way on progress. Why not follow their lead on ... - South Australia was the first state to allow all women to vote, to give Aboriginal people control of their land, and to decriminalise homosexuality.