Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Te Reo Maori needed in smaller communities too - Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is rejecting a suggestion it is short changing Māori language students on the Kaipara. Peter Boyes, who took Te Ara Reo ...

Why we need to encourage straight people to go to gay clubs - like many other LGBTI people, do not hang out exclusively with people of the same sexuality. This presents an obstacle for me on nights out.

Singapore is tightening adoption laws after gay man adopts surrogate son -  LGBTI community celebrated the court's ruling as a win for equal rights. But the judges made it clear they made their decision based on the child's ...

WHY? Because Koteka Is The Reason - West Papua is a part of Indonesia too, but not many people are at all concerned about the situation there – with all the genocides, massacres and ...

First-Ever Indigenous Peoples March Will Fight Against Injustices Faced Across the Globe - More than 10,000 marchers are anticipated to descend on DC for the event, including people from Australia, Guatemala, Papua New Guinea, Canada, ...

Intercultural cities: good practice examples - Staff is supported to learn and use te reo Māori which is one of the three official languages of New Zealand (the other two are English and New ...

Health organisation calls for less tobacco availability in Māori communities - That's distracting from the big issue, which is how much tobacco tax Māori are paying disproportionately, and that is harming our communities ...

A tobacco-free Māori nation is vital' - However, one researcher disputed that and said the best thing for Māori was to ... to elsewhere, which disproportionately impacted Māori communities.

Five Key Values of Strong Maori Leadership - The indigenous people of New Zealand/Aotearoa, Maori , are facing a renaissance of culture, despite a long history of colonization and cultural ...

Outback isolation no sweat for new Aboriginal cops ready to hit beat in troubled Territory towns - Raised in the tiny outback town of Elliot, a gruelling 700 kilometres from Darwin in the north and Alice Springs in the south, Joshua Jackson is all too ...

Locking in the future of tourism and jobs in Kakadu - Kakadu is one of Australia's most important environmental and heritage assets, biggest tourism icons and home to 60,000 years of living Indigenous  ...

WA workers urged to start meeting with welcome to country - been billed as a way to combat the history of dispossession of indigenous Australians and “end the exclusion that has been so damaging”.

Hang-ups on colonisation won't fix indigenous suicides, academic says Andrew BurrellFollow ... -  Australia's indigenous suicide crisis won't be fixed by blaming colonisation, says Aboriginal academic Anthony Dillon, who is calling for a greater focus ...

Aboriginal girl 'traumatised' after police strip-search in Hobart - strip-search of a 13-year-old Aboriginal girl who was held in custody for allegedly breaking a curfew has been criticised by her family and ...

Interesting myths and other facts you didn't know about Australia - Prof Langton's book suggests cultural experiences that can help Aussies learn more about Aboriginal culture and offers insights into language , ...

In 2019 the LGBTI History Month will be going global -  2019, the annual LGBTI History Month will be one of the biggest ever. Not only is the grassroots event celebrating its 15th anniversary but it ...

Guyana: Officials Dare Everyone to Stand Up for LGBTI Equality - CVC has partnered with stakeholders in Guyana to do critical work to help advance the rights of LGBT persons in that country. Through that work ...

Intercultural cities: good practice examples - Staff is supported to learn and use te reo Māori which is one of the three official languages of New Zealand (the other two are English and New ...

With its $3.85b mine takeover, Indonesia inherits a $13b pollution problem - 10 percent stake is held by the government of Papua province, where ... only economic benefits but also better protection for the people of Papua ,” ...

Nine dead in Papua New Guinea floods - Weeks of heavy rains and flooding have killed at least nine people in Papua New Guinea, with authorities warning more bad weather and ...