Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

LGBTI service for older Victorians struggles to survive after federal funding cuts - The only specialist service visiting lonely older LGBTI Victorians is battling to survive after federal funding cuts announced on the eve of Christmas.

Fujitsu and ThoughtWorks only tech firms in LGBT -inclusive employer index - Fujitsu and ThoughtWorks are the only technology companies to be listed in UK advocacy charity Stonewall's Top 100 LGBT -inclusive employers ...

Facts should always outweigh rush to judgment - as Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist, approached him and his classmates and performed a war dance of New Zealand's indigenous Maori  ...

Serving up a footy feast in Hamilton - Hamilton's Garden Place was all a-sizzle today as members of the NZ sevens teams served locals breakfast ahead of this weekend's World Series leg ...

Melbourne bar unrepentant over use of tā moko to promote beer event - Taiuru said just because the organiser of the event was Māori , did not mean it was okay to draw tā moko on someone's face and use it to promote a ...

New taskforce on Maori access to industry and employment -  Maori are more likely to be incarcerated, have the highest suicide rate per head of population in the western world, more likely to fail at school or going ...

NZ told to improve human rights of LGBTQI people - Justice Minister Andrew Little is in Geneva for New Zealand's third United Nations ... Until now, New Zealand has never had a recommendation from UN ... "Māori women, queer women, trans women, women living with a disability ...

Self-testing cervical cancer screening could save Māori women's lives - Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for Māori women aged 25–44 and Māori women are more than twice as likely as New ...

Scottish Government ranked 72nd in list of most LGBT inclusive employers - She said: “ LGBTI equality and inclusion are at the heart of our ambition to be a world-leading, diverse employer where people can be themselves at ...

Indigenous cattle company building billionaire-style cattle empire that puts people before profits -  Indigenous -owned cattle company is building a portfolio of stations akin to those of Australian and foreign billionaires, but their endgame is ...

The woman tackling workplace ignorance about Indigenous Australians - Djiribul woman Shelley Reys has spent her career trying to bridge the gap between Indigenous and non- Indigenous Australians . Today she counts ...

Fears WA youth justice system 'broken' after 28 Aboriginal children in detention deprived an ... - There are renewed calls to raise the minimum age a child can be imprisoned in the wake of another damning report into Western Australia's "broken" ...

Anabaptists to sign treaty with First Nations peoples on January 26 - when he and fellow Anabaptists from across Australia and New Zealand sign an historic treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Oxfam Finds Widening Wealth Gap in Australia -  Australia is in the midst of a billionaire wealth boom while low-income earners, women and Indigenous people are left behind, according to new ...

Abbott's Indigenous proposal is an idea whose time has come - Not many people in the centre of Australia's political spectrum, let alone those on the so-called progressive left, find Tony Abbott's ideas appealing.

Lady Gaga epically comes for Mike Pence and Trump during Vegas show - was revealed last week that Karen Pence is returning to work at the Immanuel Christian School in Northern Virginia, which bans LGBTI students.

How dangerous is Spain's far-right Vox party? - Vox's radical stance on immigration, feminist policies, and LGBTI rights is, for many, justification enough to place a cordon sanitaire around ...

Feeling blue? LGBTI people living with depression give advice on how to cope - As LGBTI people, we are disproportionately more likely to live with depression. Even from as young as 10 years old. Research indicates 40% of LGBTI  ...

How an Australian coach revived the Phoenix by reconnecting it to Maori heritage - A lot of the culture building was about what are the New Zealand people ... It led Rudan to embark on a journey of discovery, talking to Māori elders ...

Ngāi Tahu Tourism goes electric - One of New Zealand's leading tourism operators, Ngāi Tahu Tourism, will adopt electric vehicle chargers at some of its businesses, helping to expand ...