Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Indigenous women closing the health gap - Closing the health gap means achieving health and life expectation equality for Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,” she said.

Former Nobel Peace Prize nominee charged over alleged Aboriginal community assault - Irish- Australian by heritage, Zohl has worked and lived with Indigenous Australian and Pacific women and their communities since 1979," it reads.

Ghil'ad's Indigenous language game changer - Concerned that 96 per cent of the 330 Aboriginal languages in Australia are on the verge of imminent extinction because they're not spoken by ...

Arabana language revival mission - According to experts, majority of Australia's Indigenous languages could be completely wiped out by 2050, with the number of traditional languages ...

Another report paints dire health warning -  Indigenous Australians are 2.6 times more likely than non- Indigenous Australians to have two or more chronic health conditions, according to new ...

What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia ? - Award-winning author Anita Heiss's powerful anthology Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories ...

Nominations are open for Sydney's most prestigious LGBTI awards -  People are being encouraged to nominate a LGBTI community member they admire, or a person or organisation they know who has helped the ...

LGBTI activist forced to resign from minister's office because he's gay -  Pressure on a new Malaysian minster over his choice of press officer – who also happened to be a LGBTI activist – became so much the staff member ...

Hong Kong's failure to safeguard LGBT rights shames its equal society - country after country is recognising the right to same-sex marriage, including the US, Australia and Taiwan. From recognising gay rights to allowing ...

Gay farmers go naked to help raise awareness of mental health -  Gay farmers go naked to help raise awareness of mental health ... The cause, which raises awareness about the mental health of Australian farmers, ...

Social development plan for Maori councils - The chair of the New Zealand Māori Council wants to see much more of the organisation's work done at a local level, including the creation of social ...

Māori aims backed in future education survey - A preliminary assessment of the national conversation to develop a vision for the future of education has found support for better teaching of Māori  ...

Paeroa Central School principal retires after transforming school - A Māori school, a Māori community - Jones saw a need raise the profile of Māori at Paeroa Central School throughout her time as principal.

It's time we open up our doors' – Great Barrier Island marae to open up Māori stargazing business - When they gave Great Barrier Island the status of Dark Sky, what it did is open up a revenue avenue for us as Māori to become involved in something ...

$6 million allocated for under-served audiences, Māori - The government has announced that the $15mil of media funding allocated in this year's Budget will be split between a new innovation fund, Radio NZ ...

Ezekiel Raui, the Māori 20yo who's already met the Queen and Obama - It was sitting at the kitchen table in 2013 when Northland teenager Ezekiel Raui was compelled to take action following a tragic cluster of youth ...

United Nations tells Australia it must do more to protect women's rights - United Nations tells Australia it must do more to protect women's rights ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, LGBTI women, women with ...

Uniting Church can 'provide moral leadership on sovereignty' - Mr McMillan brought the proposal: “To affirm that the First Peoples of Australia , the Aboriginal and Islander Peoples, are sovereign peoples in this land ...

Homesickness forges a career goal of helping indigenous children with schooling - Originally from Cairns, with an Aboriginal mother and a Torres Strait ... Last year, Universities Australia said indigenous people comprised 2.7 per cent ...

Revamp inspired by Yagan - Mokare was a Minang Noongar man who played a key role in indigenous Australian -settler relations in the region in the early 1800s, favouring ...