Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Nana Freda' is honoured as a pioneer of Indigenous film and TV - Launched to distribute audio cassettes of Indigenous language news to remote ... people to "sustain the culture and languages of Central Australia ".

Violence is a horrifying concept, says director of thriller Nightingale - No one can accuse Australian director Jennifer Kent of taking filmmaking lightly. Her long-awaited follow-up to the hit horror film The Babadook had its ...

What's the point of making Australian films if nobody gets to see them? - tensions in regional areas and the shorter life expectancy of Indigenous Australians . But it's not clear yet whether we'll see the film at the multiplex.

Australia is losing its sense of identity and what makes it great' - listened to wonderful and moving stories from second and third generation refugees, I heard the tributes to the indigenous people of Australia and felt ...

Australia is still dealing with the legacy of the UK's nuclear bomb tests, 65 years on - The most devastating effects were suffered by two groups: Australian and British soldiers working on the tests themselves, and the Indigenous  ...

Huge majority of Australians oppose laws banning gay students and teachers -  Australian voters have strongly rejected laws to allow religious schools to discriminate against gay students and teachers, in a widening political storm ...

Exorcisms To Rid Men And Women Of 'Demons Who Want Them To Be Gay ' -  Gay conversion therapy is alive and well in Australia , with exorcisms just one of several practices used in religious communities to force LGBTIQ ...

Why Meghan and Harry's Australia visit is causing controversy - Protests by indigenous Australians tend to accompany any royal visit given the bloody history of British colonialists. For at least a century and a half ...

Australia Seeks to Ban Schools From Expelling Gay Students After Public Outcry -  Australia will ban schools from expelling gay students after a leaked report revealed the practice was enforced at some religious schools, according to ...

Landmark study reveals extent of gay conversion therapy in Australia , calls for sweeping reform - Mary* was only 17 when she was sent away to a psychiatric hospital in the late 1980s because she told her parents she'd fallen in love with another ...

The beginning of good things to come -  Papua New Guinea is a highly diversified country, the conglomeration of different types of people , we have so far managed to maintain the unity of the ...

Community boards reduce crime - It works because it is by Māori , for Māori , and the rest of the community benefits as well. Alec Hawke from Orakei Marae says other ethnicities are also ...

Report shows racial bias in resuscitating newborns - Pacifica and Indian premature babies are less likely to recieve resuscitation attempts than babies of other ethnicities, a national report has ...

Kaikohekohe – growing young boys into great men - A trend of reoccurring negative behaviour paints a bleak future for young Māori males in Kaikohe, particularly within the Year 7-10 age bracket.

The double standards of White rage when it comes to hiring more Māori at Hospitals - It really says something about us as a country when the rage is focused at Hospitals trying to hire more Māori & Pacific Islanders because 'that's racist', ...

The day Maori honoured Nyerere as 'rainmaker' - Arusha. In his hey day as president during the 1960s,1970s and 1980s, Mwalimu Nyerere would traverse the width and length of the vast Tanzania, ...

So-called religious freedom is a front to justify LGBT discrimination - More than 30 years later much has changed in Australia , and we should be proud of the great strides made in LGBT acceptance. Yet we continue to ...

Greens say protect LGBT teachers too - Law Council of Australia's President-elect Arthur Moses SC said now would be a good time to review whether these changes should apply to teachers ...

Coalition 'united' over laws to stop schools expelling gay students, Cormann says - Coalition 'united' over laws to stop schools expelling gay students, ... It's an issue on which good Australians can have a diversity of genuinely and ...

Australia to stop religious schools rejecting gay students -  Australia's prime minister has promised to ban religious schools from discriminating against gay students. Scott Morrison said new legislation would ...