Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Indigenous campaign's Deadly Questions revealed as Victoria pushes for treaty - June, prominent Indigenous Victorians issued a call: to ask them “deadly questions”. As part of the state's treaty push, Australians were encouraged ...

Giiyong Festival the first of its kind in Yuin Nation - Ms Williams said on a national level a small number of high-profile Indigenous Australian musicians were experiencing mainstream success and a ...

Leprosy is a terror of the past. Right? - Western Australia has had 20 new cases of leprosy in the past five years. The disease disproportionately affects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Aboriginal Learner of the Year award winner has big dreams in the building industry. -  has been named Aboriginal Learner of the Year in South Australia's 2018 ... In South Australia the theme for 2018 Adult Learners Week explored the ...

30 years, 30 great Australians - The most significant development in Australia in the past 30 years? ... our Aboriginal communities is a process that will help lead to an Australia that is ...

After a long struggle, the Uniting Church becomes the first to offer same-sex marriage - From Friday, September 21, the Uniting Church (UCA) will be the first of the three major Australian Christian denominations to endorse same-sex  ...

Australia celebrates trans women with this beautiful mural ahead of Darwin Pride - Darwin, Australia , is celebrating the trans women in the community with an amazing mural ahead of this year's Pride.

Sex, lies and a scandal - This story has been told quite a lot of times, but I don't think it has ever in any mainstream form [been] told by a gay man,” says the proudly gay Davies, ...

Poppers may soon be as illegal as heroin in Australia - A recommendation to outlaw amyl nitrite – poppers – has left Australia's ... 'This decision, if successful, will criminalise most instances of gay sex and ...

Australia's Senate passes a motion seeking to ban 'conversion therapy' - The motion was brought forward by the Australian Green Party. ... And under the government's new LGBT action plan, the practice is set to be banned ...

How to fix racial inequality in urban design - She notes how alienating our urban spaces can feel to Māori – many streets, for example, are named after Pākehā who often didn't come to Aotearoa ...

Trade, Treaty obligations to fore in plant variety review - "Ensuring the plant variety rights regime includes adequate protection and recognition of Māori interests in the regime will be an important outcome of ...

Mapping Aotearoa in te reo Māori - A new map offering te reo Māori names for places around Aotearoa has been created by a young cartography enthusiast. Andrew Douglas-Clifford ...

Maori Language, Once Shunned, Is Having a Renaissance in New Zealand - A teenage thrash metal band screams out Maori lyrics in its latest videos. A popular radio host is learning New ...

PNG holds national independence day celebrations - The only people who can deliver a stronger Papua New Guinea are Papua New Guineans ourselves," O'Neill said. "As a country we have many ...

The feeling of triumph, jubilation - The passion to now be identified as a Papua New Guinean was ... It drove a burning desire and passion to stand together as one People , one Nation ...

Advance Australia Fair is an anthem that is racist at so many levels' - Howard, of course, is the writer of Australia's unofficial anthem Solid Rock. His love of this country, of Indigenous life and culture, its history of survival, ...

Health system struggling with organ donation success - A study in the Medical Journal of Australia today confirms indigenous people on dialysis are “substantially less likely” than other Australians to be ...

We should stand up for the right to sit down - She also said the phrase "we are young" dissed indigenous Australians who ... Calls by Australia's senior politicians to beat a child and kick her out of ...

Australians rally behind young girl who protested the national anthem - When it says Advance Australia Fair, it means advance the white people. And when it says 'we are young' it completely disregards the indigenous