Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

On the Line improves provision of social health services to over 80000 Australians with Yellowfin ... - On the Line currently supports more than 80,000 Australians yearly with vital counselling services including MensLine Australia , Suicide Call Back Service and SuicideLine Victoria. The Yellowfin Cloud solution will ultimately eliminate manual report consolidation to deliver an automated snap-shot of the ...

Brand Australia's big steak in China - But protein is no finished game either, with 300m still to come out of poverty .” The Kidman enterprise, which Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting owns 66pc of in partnership with Chinese-based Shanghai Cred, has just brokered a deal for 300,000 head of live cattle to China, which Mr Robb referred to as ...

Religious freedom must not be a green light to discriminate - As it ponders the role of religious freedom in Australia , the Religious Freedom Review headed by Philip Ruddock would do well to reflect on the real-life ... Should independent schools be able to expel students with gay parents? ... Religious schools to sack teachers who come out as gay on Facebook?

For the first time, Lebanon politicians call to decriminalize gay sex - The Kataeb party, a Christian Democratic right-wing party, spoke about their plans to remove the law that makes homosexuality a crime live on television. This marks the first time a mainstream political party has spoken out on LGBTI rights in Lebanon.

Zimbabwe is open for business but not open for Gay Rights - Davos might sound a long time ago to many but not the LGBTI community of Zimbabwe. I write as one such woman with a sexual preference for the same sex as myself when I am not doubling up as bisexual (not often). Hey I am not the only black Zimbabwean of African descent living this way. There are ...

Australian businesses call for cut to minimum wage -  Australia needs a living wage. The wage earnings of employees dependent on minimum rates of pay have fallen below their long-term level relative to market wages,” the ACTU said. “This is not a marker of a fair society, particularly when workers and their families are forced to live in poverty .” The Fair ...

Photos from Daylesford's ChillOut Festival parade, 2018 - Organisers say this weekend's ChillOut Festival in Daylesford was the biggest and best the town has ever seen. More than 25,000 people flocked to the region for the three-day event at the weekend, with members and supporters of the LGBTI community marching down Vincent Street for a big and ...

Administrative Appeals Tribunal saves fake gay Christian from deportation - A MUSLIM Iraqi father of seven who tried to avoid deportation by pretending to be a gay Christian has been allowed to stay in Australia . The convicted violent criminal lied by claiming to Australian authorities his homosexuality and religious conversion would cause him to be him persecuted if he were ...

Indigenous language education: beyond revival - In Maori we call it the karanga call,” she says. “We greet our guests in the same way.” As the chief executive of the Te Kohanga Reo National Trust, the non-governmental organization that has led New Zealand's revival of the Maori language for more than three decades, Cribb made the trip to share ...

Maori man Tattoo arts are common in the Eastern Polynesian - A Maori man at the sixth Festival of Pacific Arts in Rarotonga, History Eastern Maori included Rotorua and the Bay (an Eastern Polynesian people) Background Tattoo arts are common in the Eastern Polynesian homeland of Find and save ideas about Maori face tattoo on Pinterest. Ta moko are most ...

Bot puts reo in everyday conversation - The designer of a te reo Maori chat bot hopes it will encourage people to use the language in everyday settings. ReoBot is an artificial intelligence tool that builds on capability within Facebook Messenger. Jason Lovell, who created the tool with workmate Jonnie Cain, says it includes a series on ...

ASH welcomes the end of tobacco branding in New Zealand - However, Broughton says that this is only one of a suite of strategies recommended by the Māori Affairs Select Committee to achieve a Smokefree 2025 goal and New Zealand has a lot of work left to do. 'We only have seven years left to achieve the Smokefree goal. It's a sprint to the finish, and we urge ...

TEC makes structural changes for new pathway - We know that we must work harder to achieve better outcomes for Maori and Pasifika learners, build better relationships with business and industry, and exercise more influence over the tertiary education system to improve its overall performance. It is a challenging time for tertiary education. It is critical ...

Tribes preparing for climate emergencies -  Maori communities along the Whanganui River have started organising their own civil defence so they can respond to emergencies such as floods and extreme weather events. Ngai Tahu has also set up climate assessment teams to assess risk look at mitigation. "You have to be crazy these days to ...

Vietnamese PM quotes Maori proverb to tighten VN-NZ relations - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has expressed his belief that Vietnam-New Zealand relations would reach a new height, in the spirit of an adage in the Maori language “Naku te rourou nau te rourou ka ora ai te iwi,” or “With your basket and my basket the people will live,” highlighting the value ...

Hollywood director Ava DuVernay says  New Zealand's Māori  crime rate 'a myth' - In  New Zealand  to shoot parts of the Disney film A Wrinkle in Time, she was shocked to learn that  Māori  makes up 53 per cent of the  New Zealand  prison  population . "Extraordinary numbers that very much matches the model that's happening in the United States. We know there's someone who's  Māori  ... - v

Market will feature 20 stalls showcasing Aboriginal artists - The Koori Arts and Craft market provides an accessible avenue for local Aboriginal artists to revive and share their culture with the wider community.'' Emu egg carving and basket weaving demonstrations will also be held. And for all those adventurous foodies out there, a barbecue complete with emu ...

Jade Torres, founder of Pwerle Gallery - while promoting awareness of Aboriginal culture and history; particularly art from her family's home in the Utopia region, an area that spans 5,000 square kilometres of land northeast of Alice Springs in central Australia . Since opening the gallery, Torres has sought out different ways to bring the art and ...

Domestic violence in Australia is a crisis - In terms of the financial cost of violence against women and their children in Australia KPMG have estimated it is “at least” $22 billion a year, in healthcare, welfare support and lost wages. It is likely, however, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, pregnant women, women with disability, and ...

MP exclusion 'disappointing' - Liberal Member for Kalgoorlie Kyran O'Donnell has vented frustration at the State Government's decision to bypass his expertise during the consultation process for its Goldfields Aboriginal employment scheme. Mr O'Donnell, a Kalgoorlie-Boulder resident for more than 30 years and shadow minister for ...