Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

So, where are we at with learning te reo in schools? - Phrases like 'kia ora' have come to embody that sense of warmth and Kiwi welcome. But how many of us could carry on that conversation in Māori , ...

Thousands march in hikoi for Te wiki o te reo Māori - Thousands of people have marched through central Auckland for a hīkoi supporting te wiki o te reo Māori . Local kura kaupapa students, teachers and ...

Claws out in Omaui's cat fight as felines face 'sunset clause' on their population - Claws out in Omaui's cat fight as felines face 'sunset clause' on their population .... Dan made a few stumbles on Māori words in his first attempt at the ...

Australia's senate passes motion to tackle conversion therapy -  Australia's senate on Tuesday (11 September) passed a motion to tackle the rise in LGBTI ... The Australia Greens brought the motion to the Senate.

Global standard on human rights emerging - April, a court in Trinidad and Tobago found colonial-era laws banning gay sex unconstitutional. And late last year, Australia legalized same-sex  ...

Tūī Early Learners Young Investigators embrace Māori learning - Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand headed to Tūī Early Learners Young Investigators on Wednesday, where children learned a new game ...

Māori academics 'isolated' and lacking in numbers -  Māori academics are few and far between with the latest figures showing ... make up less than 5 percent of all university academics in New Zealand .

McDonald's pulls U-turn, now letting employees speak te reo Māori - McDonald's pulls U-turn, now letting employees speak te reo Māori .... The Māori Language Commission says every New Zealander has the right to 

Maori Language Week parade to help preserve precious taonga - As New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland is also home to the largest population of Māori in the world. For this reason, it was decided that Tāmaki ...

Kiwi kids to shape future of te reo Māori - children are a part of a study called Growing Up in New Zealand that is being conducted by the University of Auckland's School of Populatio

Education Review Office recommends more teaching on porn - Every student in every school in New Zealand has the right to be welcomed ... LGBT support organisation Rainbow Youth said it was disappointing ...

A new way to recognise an Indigenous nation in Australia - After years of debate, the process for achieving constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has reached a crossroads. More than a year has ...

Power to the community is best - This statement forms the crux of a project that flips top-down policies on its head, instead driving priorities from the perspective of the Perth Aboriginal  ...

Hundreds of Australian Aborigines killed in state custody -  Australian Aborigines are the most incarcerated people in the world. Only 2.8 percent of the Australian population identifies itself as indigenous but ...

Indigenous parents homeschooling children in face of literacy and numeracy gap - Ms Griffen and her husband were both educated in public schools in Australia . As a student, she saw Aboriginal children being treated differently.

#377 not out: Aussie legend says good beginning but lot more to be done - Even in a country like Australia , where homosexuality was not criminal for many years, and even so, we only achieved the marriage equality ...

Australian cricketer Alex Blackwell on Section 377: It's a special moment but there is more to change - still feel it's being difficult for men, even though homosexuality is not illegal in Australia , just as in India now. It is difficult for the male athletes to be ...

Australia's gay marriage vote lights up London Design show - Flynn Talbot was home in Perth with his wife and children in December last year when inspiration hit. The source was unlikely – Parliament ...

Scott Morrison's school alumni Facebook group restricted after heated posts - Morrison's record on climate change, LGBT rights and his legacy as immigration minister that involved a hardening of Australia's offshore detention ...

How many people in the world are gay ? - Research on the subject of how many people are gay poses more questions than answers. Citing the most recent Australian survey conducted by Roy ...