Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Remote kidney patients face homelessness -  Aboriginal people with chronic kidney disease are having to travel ... They are missing out on the normal things that Australia takes for granted ...

Aboriginal skills taken up by the army - The bushcraft, tracking and navigation skills of Aboriginal people are being used by the Australian Army to train its soldiers. The army's new 'Tulugal ...

Black LGBTQI reacts to overwhelming "YES" vote - Many in the Indigenous community have embraced Australia's majority 61.6% vote supporting a change to the current law that prevents same-sex ...

Study shows Aboriginal Australians were aiding the spread of plants thousands of years ago - A new study has revealed Australian Aboriginal groups helped the spread of edible plants by hand long before Europeans arrived. The research on ...

This is what Australia wants': Wagga woman responds to same-sex marriage survey results - As an Aboriginal woman, she wanted to see same-sex marriage legalised in her home country but she had to watch privileged, predominantly white ...

We must stop punishing children for a disadvantaged start in life - Sadly, this is not what we deliver to all of our children in Australia . ... the face of which has become a young Aboriginal man named Dylan Voller, who ...

Our stolen generation: a nonchalant wickedness - a white Australian , was a leading figure in exposing what had happened to generations of Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed from ...

Mungo Man returns home: there is still much he can teach us about ancient Australia - The remains of the first known Australian , Mungo Man, today begin their ... still have much to tell us about the lives of early Aboriginal Australians .

Australia's abominable secret: A suicide crisis among children -  Australia's suicide rates among Indigenous children is a national ... living below the poverty line and in particular remote and regional living peoples.

How are we going to effectively tackle homophobia in football? - As Justin Fashanu is still the only player to have come out during his career, 27 years on, we are still struggling to find acceptance in the most popular ...

Woman Claims Viral Anti- Homophobia Ad Personally Violates Her Because Her Name is 'Gay' - The most ridiculous discrimination complaint of the day comes from a woman in New Zealand, claiming this viral anti- homophobia ad — many of you ...

The First Trailer for American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace Does Not Disappoint - The more I had read about it, the more I was startled by the fact that Cunanan really was only allowed to get away with it because of homophobia ," he ...

Fear and paranoia grip Egypt's LGBT community: 'I want to be forgotten' - the man, who has since left Sinai for another Egyptian city, said. “The crackdown awakened the homophobia of the masses. People are cheering for ...

As sexual harassment rocks entertainment world, will fans welcome back Eminem? - Eminem's catalog has long been characterized by rampant homophobia and misogyny, prejudices that are slowly becoming less prominent in ...

Australia as a whole said yes - but how did your state and federal seat vote? -  VICTORIA is the state most supportive of same-sex marriage, the postal survey results show. Almost 65 per cent of Victorians voted yes, while New ...

Gay marriage bill introduced to parliament - Liberal Dean Smith's private senator's bill hit parliament on Wednesday after the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced a 61.6 per cent 'yes' vote ...

Public servants do the haka for whanau - "It is an opportunity for people to come together, not just Maori because there were as many non- Maori as there were Maori there and on stage as well, ...

Cultural push on asthma needed - There's a call to base culturally targeted healthcare programmes in churches and on marae to reduce the impact of severe asthma in Maori and ...

Finding ways to address inequalities in Maori mental health - Inequities for Maori diagnosed with a psychotic disorder are set to be investigated, and ways to address unmet needs found, in a new University of ...

Whakatane votes for Maori wards - Mayor Tony Bonne says it's important to foster strong and meaningful relationships with Maori across the district and ensure te ao Maori is recognised ...