Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Why are white people on Sunrise with no experience calling for Indigenous child removals? - The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) figures show that 68 per cent of Indigenous children are placed in the care of Indigenous people, which logic tells you then that the remaining 32 per cent must be with non- Indigenous families. With British and Irish being the most common ancestries ...

Indigenous child abusers 'should be kicked out of communities' -  National Children's Commissioner Megan Mitchell said indigenous kids made up a third of the children in Australia's child protection system. She said she supported the adoption of abused children in certain cases but it was preferable that a “safe family member'' care for them. “Children always have a ...

Tracking the spread of early hunter-gatherers through language - Language experts have long wondered how one language family—Pama-Nyungan—came to dominate most of Australia . Pama-Nyungan contains more than 75% of Australia's roughly 400 indigenous languages and is found across about 90% of the continent. Professor Atkinson, from the University of ...

Our coverage was racist': National Geographic admits bias against Indigenous people - Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia . Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings". The exploration of National Geographic's ...

World watching indigenous panel in Perth - A panel of indigenous and constitutional law experts will meet at the WA Supreme Court on Tuesday to consider the legal and practical steps needed to hold a successful referendum. Murray Hunt, director of the UK's Bingham Centre which organised the event, says the way countries recognise the legal ...

Fed minister considering 'white' adoptions - Dr Gillespie believes the need to keep Aboriginal children in indigenous communities "doesn't trump other issues''. "In small communities, if a family is dysfunctional, that's not satisfactory,'' he told the paper. He believes it's "pretty poor" only 143 of the nearly 48,000 Australian children in foster care last ...

Indigenous Language and Storytelling at Heart of New Connecting Up Partnership - The organisation delivers cultural and community video content to remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities around Australia , and beyond, enabling the sharing of cultural stories, song and dance, language and essential information through two accessible platforms – ICTV Television on ...

The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia's largest family of Aboriginal languages - The approximately 400 languages of Aboriginal Australia can be grouped into 27 different families. To put that diversity in context, Europe has just four language families, Indo-European, Basque, Finno-Ugric and Semitic, with Indo-European encompassing such languages as English, Spanish, Russian ...

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 ...