Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Australia launches revenge porn reporting tool -  Australia has set up the first national reporting tool to help victims of revenge porn. Revenge porn, or image-based abuse, is the sharing of explicit ...

Australia needs to clean up its act, warn NGOs - But Oxfam, Amnesty International and the Human Rights Law Centre say Australia's own treatment of refugees and indigenous people leaves a lot to ...

Adani's Australia Story: What's the Fuss All About? - As the Adani project becomes a symbol of Australia's future, The Wire .... In Australia , native title law is a recognition that 'some indigenous people ...

Australia wins seat on powerful United Nations Human Rights Council - Ms Bishop said Australia's primary focus on the Council would be the empowerment of women, indigenous rights, and pushing for the abolition of the ...

High school students abuse queer Indigenous writer after her poem was in their exam - A queer Aboriginal writer has copped a barrage of racist abuse from high school students in Australia after one of her poems featured in their end of ...

Robin Hood in reverse — how companies fleece the poor to pay the better off - The South Australian Council of Social Service studied 10 examples of what it labels “ poverty premiums” paid in electricity bills, telecommunications, ...

Suicide migration fears intensify over planned euthanasia laws - Fears of suicide migration from other states caused by ambiguity in ... “You read the legislation (and) it means that any Australian resident willing to ...

Two-thirds of Australians have voted in same-sex marriage postal survey -  Australia's support for same-sex marriage had hovered between 60 and 65 per cent for the past five years, and Mr Brady hopeful the figure will be ...

Australia launches website to report revenge porn in 'world first' -  Australia has launched an online portal to report revenge porn, with ... with one in three people who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual falling victim.

Same-sex marriage by Christmas -  GAY couples could get married in Australia as early as December 14 - the date the Turnbull Government expects the momentous law to take effect.

Please Sir, can I have some marriage rights and respect - Chavura said the reason gay teens might feel they are hated is not because of groups like the Australian Christian Lobby, but because gay lobbyists ...

Chelsea Clinton again calls out Trump for an offensive joke (this one's about killing people) - Two sources also recalled Trump needling Pence about his views on abortion and homosexuality . During a meeting with a legal scholar, Trump ...

Yes' campaign soars in the polls as figures show 10.8 million have had their say on gay marriage ... - The campaign in favour of gay marriage has surged in the polls, leaving the 'No' camp needing three in ...

U of T students work with Māori , Maya and other Indigenous communities and share what they ... - University of Toronto student Jaime Kearns says she just had the best summer of her life, living and working with the Māori peoples of New Zealand as ...

The New Zealand baby dearth - In New Zealand, 1872 saw the end of the Maori Land Wars, a series of conflicts that stretched back to the mid-1840s and had been fought throughout ...

Two-day symposium provides Māori perspective on conflict - A two-day symposium on Māori perspectives of conflict aims to deepen understanding of the wars between Māori and colonial troops, and how they ...

Four big reasons why National should not lead the next government. And four why it should - National's agenda is not the same as Labour's, and yet most of its ideas about how to move forward come from Labour, the Greens and the Māori Party ...

The Haka Party Incident and 'casual' racism in New Zealand - For 20 years Māori had written to the engineering school at Auckland University asking them to stop an annual event where students would dress up ...

Young activists seek climate change voice - A group of young Maori and Pasifika climate change activists is raising funds to get the first indigenous youth delegation from Aotearoa to a major ...

War songs carry Maori memory - He says what they originally sounded like can be glimpsed through hearing recordings of the 28 Maori Battalion in the desert during the Second World ...