Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

11 incredible secret island hotels in Australia - Varied terrains give each island its own unique character – some even have their own indigenous species of wildlife (ever heard of a quokka?

Preserving a Culture by Protecting the Environment - It was dinnertime for the Dhimurru Rangers, a group of mostly Indigenous Australians who had spent a long day cleaning up the polluted beaches of ...

Hot flame burned on indigenous justice - These were people who were activists for indigenous rights, including the 1967 referendum to include indigenous Australians in the census. Taffe said ..

Kim Scott and his artistic literary approach on colonialism - Engaging with stories of the aboriginal Australian Wirlomin Noongar people reclaiming identity and culture in southwest Western Australia , Taboo ...

Jakarta Fashion Week showcases aboriginal designs, various collaborations - Jakarta Fashion Week showcases aboriginal designs, various ... a nonprofit organization governed by Australian Indigenous community Art Centers.

The Feminist Writers Festival Is Coming to Sydney for the First Time - As a society and in Australia , in the past five years to a decade, we have ... “I think non- Indigenous Australia is starting to look a bit more fully at the ...

Cate Blanchett defends straight actors who portray gay characters - Many LGBTI rights advocates, such as Sir Ian McKellen, believe that most gay and transgender actors are already marginalized, and casting straight ...

NUS Scotland: New teachers should be trained to tackle homophobic bullying - The call came after the students' union formally backed the Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) campaign, which has battled for reforms on how LGBTI  ...

9 maps show how different LGBTQ rights are around the world - To understand how gay rights vary around the world, Business Insider ... Australia , Germany, and Malta were the most recent to adopt same-sex  ...

Young Catholics urge Vatican to make LGBT community feel more welcomed - Some of the youth delegates to the meeting have insisted that the final document express an inclusive message to make LGBT Catholics feel welcome ...

Women Caught Between Two Worlds - She's currently co-producing a documentary about Māori suffragists called He Māngai Wāhine, which traces those stories of Māori women who were ...

Coca-Cola Amatil refutes 'Kia ora, mate' language gaffe - The message mixes te reo Maori - the language of the country's indigenous people - and English. While 'Kia ora' is a common Maori greeting, 'mate' ...

Decolonising Smith wins top science tohu - Other winners included the University of Waikato's Te Kōtahi Research Institute for making a significant contribution to Māori health excellence and ...

Hello, death': Coca-Cola greets New Zealanders in marketing blunder - One of Coca-Cola's marketing slogans in New Zealand did not go over well, turning into a humorous and embarrassing blunder for the company.

Young people want us to speak out - Both Cardinals Cupich and John Ribat from Papua New Guinea said that although many people choose to migrate, we must also acknowledge that ...

New Māori language resource hits Tauranga Z stations - 2013 Census for the Māori language show that only 3.8 per cent of Tauranga's 114,000 population spoke Māori . Tommy Wilson, co-creator of the ...

7 Myths About Coming Out at Work - Even in countries that are economically-developed and progressive, like Australia , homosexuality has only been decriminalized since 1997, and ...

Bully boy Australia has it in for voiceless people on vulnerable islands - White rights? Rising emissions? Gay -teacher bans? Child torture? Concentration camps? Come on Australia . We're better than this. In what it will no ...

Australian government loses majority after embarrassing by-election defeat - With 54 per cent of the vote counted, Dr Phelps, a prominent doctor and gay rights campaigner, had an unassailable lead over Mr Sharma, a former ...

New report suggests that 10% of LGBTQ Australians are at risk of 'conversion therapy' - A report, titled Preventing Harm, Promoting Justice: Responding to LGBT conversion therapy in Australia , was published earlier this week, and ...