Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

When the colonised start colonising - 26th of January is a confusing day for Indian diaspora in Australia . ... their understanding of Australia's relationship with its Indigenous inhabitants.

A treaty would be better than a date change - Here's a radical thought. Australia Day is not Invasion Day. It is the first expression of Welcome to Country by Australia's Aborigines . That welcome ...

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" ...

Letters sent to Indigenous Affairs Minister call on Australia to change the date - A series of letters sent to Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion have called on the government to change the date of Australia Day, despite Mr ...

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 ...

Public High Schools Block Access To LGBTI Websites But Allows Anti-Gay Ones - GayStarNews reports that the UK's leading LGBTI charity, Stonewall, condemned the coalition between Conservatives and the Democratic Unionist ...

Companies must commit to workplace equality - senior business leaders - Van 't Noordende was speaking at the launch of the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality at Davos on Tuesday. Backed by Microsoft, Mastercard, ...

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 ...

Aussie beer occasion advert 'mocking Māori tradition' - Aussie beer occasion advert 'mocking Māori tradition' ... The image has offended some Māori and members of the New Zealand beer community.

Museum to return Native American skulls - 2016, councillors in the Borders returned a Maori war flag to New Zealand after an approach from the New Zealand museum and descendants of ...

Zebra painting also protects people from bites - Many indigenous peoples in Africa, Australia and Papua new Guinea are known to paint their bodies with bright stripes and Patterns. A study of ...

West Papuan leaders blame deaths of three babies on Indonesian crackdown - International observers and the West Papua people are lobbying for urgent access to West Papua to provide immediate medical treatment, food aid, ...

Indigenous Australia's crushing cycle of tragedy - In her first act as the first female Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner, Oscar initiated the National Women's Voices project ...

The inequality that divides us: Oxfam -  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples also fell into a group that was being left behind. Not only do Australian Government statistics show that ...

The battle for Aboriginal heritage on Perth's shore 30 years on -  Aboriginal people in Western Australia were forced off their lands; children were removed from their families and placed in state institutions. Between ...

Ash Barty: Five things you might not know about the tennis superstar - She was named Tennis Australia's Indigenous ambassador to encourage more Aboriginal children to play the sport. "I'm a very proud Indigenous ...

Aussie billionaires rake in $100m each day - The yawning gap between health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia ... is a symptom of this stark inequality," Dr ...

Should Australia Day's date be moved? - How you feel about the subject of Australia Day and the date it is held will – as it ... In 1938 Aboriginal leaders publicly declared it a day of sorrow and ...

State Department 'deeply disturbed' by latest Chechnya anti- LGBTI crackdown - “We are deeply disturbed by credible reports out of Chechnya about renewed attacks against individuals perceived to be members of the LGBTI  ...

The Women's March takes to the streets for the third year - For many women, particularly LGBTI and Jewish women, the Women's March leaders refusing to condemn Farrakhan was troubling. Many local ...

Med students push for more LGBTI health training - A third-year med student at New York Medical College is vocal about the need to focus more on LGBTI health Sarah Spiegel, a third-year med student ...

Homeless people of color started our revolution, so why we forget about them? - 2016 would turn out to be the deadliest year for the LGBTI community on record. We spent the morning reading and crying. When I opened the ...

Papua New Guinea's only radiation machine won't work — and the consequences can be fatal -  Papua New Guinea's only radiation machine won't work — and the ... in Papua New Guinea, there is currently no radiotherapy available for people  ...

Oldest nanny competes at Waka Ama Nationals - As Taroi Black reports the 82 year-old was given a national salute at New Zealand's biggest waka ama annual event. Morehu says, "I didn't at first ...

Brewers encouraged to consider cultural sensitivities -  Māori cultural adviser Karaitiana Taiuru has also spoken out, explaining to New Zealand's island friends that Tā Moko is sacred in Māori culture.

Māori tourism gets top guidance - NZ Māori Tourism is reaching for the heights, bringing the sons of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa to meet iwi and share their experience of the opportunities ...

Maori Kids to start the school year more behind than ever -  Maori Kids to start the school year more behind than ever before: rise of the digital divide In this press release: an overview of the problem faced, ...

Time to overhaul NZ's pesticide rules - Treaty interests relevant to the regulation of pesticides include the substantive protection of native flora and fauna, protection of the Māori guardianship ...

Perth schoolgirl's heartbreaking message before taking own life - Ms Pryor's death comes amid fears of a rising suicide rate among Aboriginal children in Australia . She was the fifth indigenous girl in the country to die ...

Australia's rich keep getting richer, with billionaires' wealth rising $160bn in one year - The yawning gap between health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia – who face a devastating infant mortality rate ...

Stonewall reinforces need for LGBTI children's books following spate of bans -  UK-based LGBTI rights group Stonewall has reinforced the need for LGBTI -themed books for children. The group says that books highlighting LGBTI  ...

Brexit might be the end of LGBTI protection, human rights lawyer warns - The Brexit process is threatening the rights of the LGBTI community, British lawyer Helena Kennedy warns. After Prime Minister ...

LGBTI -inclusive anti-bullying laws linked to lower rates of teen suicides - The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law has found a connection between LGBTI -inclusive state bullying laws and lower rates of teen suicide ...

Fans get a first look at Supergirl's trans superhero, Dreamer - The announcement of the role and casting was praised by many in the LGBTI community. Producers described the character as a 'soulful young ...

The double lives of New Zealand's celebrity impersonators - But across the world, and here in New Zealand , there are many hardworking people who still have a lot of skin – and sweat – in the impersonation ...

Rowdy tourists praise Māori culture, slam ruthless 'white Kiwis' - The family's movements down New Zealand's North Island have been carefully followed by ... The ruthless people are the white Kiwis, not the Māori

NZ human rights to come under scrutiny from UN - Last month, 50 influential New Zealand women signed an open letter calling ... New Zealand's prison population is being forecast to rise by more than ...

The hunt for the 'unruly' people : tracking the tourists New Zealand can't get enough of - From the moment the group were snapped leaving their rubbish at an Auckland beach, New Zealand hasn't been able to get enough of the family ...

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The real reason for the indigenous suicide crisis which has seen five Aboriginal girls ... - A failure to address issues facing the Aboriginal community is partly to blame for Australia's Indigenous youth suicide crisis, experts claim. An alarming ...

Forcing Australia Day citizenship ceremonies on councils won't make the issue go away - As more councils debate the matter, it's clear Australians are starting to think about what it would mean to include indigenous peoples as equal ...

Eight facts about Indigenous people in Australia - How many Indigenous languages are spoken in Australia ? How many are in danger of disappearing? And why are so many Indigenous kids – some ...

Campaign to free Aboriginal women jailed for unpaid fines - An online crowdfunding campaign set up to help Aboriginal women in Western Australia avoid jail for unpaid fines has raised $230,000 in its first four ...

The Uniting Church and 'Change the Date' - This Sunday, 20 January, Uniting Churches around Australia will be ... Church has with the United Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress, the ...

Aboriginal TV presenter wades into Australia Day debate -  Aboriginal TV presenter Brooke Bonney has waded into the debate on Australia Day, saying it should be moved from January 26.

Kansas reintroduces laws to protect LGBTI people from workplace discrimination - Kansas' new governor has signed back into law anti-discrimination measures for LGBTI workers employed by the state government.

Technology that blocks LGBTI content online is putting people in danger - For the LGBTI individuals facing widespread persecution and discrimination in the six countries where Netsweeper's services are in use, the ...

Grindr shuts down its LGBTI news site - But, Into staffers and LGBTI advocates in the US bemoaned the loss to LGBTI media. Into caused controversy in November last year with a report into ...

Anti-gay Singapore is leaving LGBTI people without a home - Finally, without anti-discrimination legislation to protect individuals in the private renting market, LGBTI tenants are at risk from homophobic or ...

Unruly tourists speak out as deportation looms - After that, they claim they were abused, with people calling them "Irish .... "We have to go home early because the New Zealand people are treating my ...

All smiles after being accepted to study dentistry - It's important to have Māori dentists so Māori can help other Māori improve their oral health.” Father, Aaron Kamana- who says he's in need of a new  ...

Reviving the Maori Language - On paper, the Maori people's rights have been recognized since New Zealand's colonization. But discrimination against the Maori people has ...

2019: International Year of Indigenous Languages -  Māori Language expert Tawhirimatea Williams says preservation of any ... we came here and started going to school in New Zealand ,” says Tunato, ...

Hikoi to support wahine undergoing weight loss surgery - It's making me a lot more accountable for the whole hikoi and my new ... Meanwhile, whānau around Australia and New Zealand will take part in their ...

Cannabis convictions fall in New Zealand while meth still on the rise - Cannabis convictions fall in New Zealand while meth still on the rise ... half of those convictions, while 80 percent are men and 41 percent are Māori .

Suicide claims one life a week in the Northern Territory - The figures were in line with previous years, with the NT having Australia's highest suicide rate per capita for nine out of the last 10 years leading up to ...

More than unpopular. How ParentsNext intrudes on single parents' human rights - The program trialled from April 2016 provided intensive job-readiness training (and parenting programs) for single parents “at risk”, often Indigenous , ...

Five indigenous girls take their own lives in nine-day period - Five indigenous girls take their own lives in nine-day period ... Three of the other cases occurred in Western Australia and one was in Queensland.

Forcing Australia Day citizenship ceremonies on councils won't make the issue go away - All of them, however, take seriously the inclusion of Australia's Indigenous heritage and multicultural diversity in our national day. Our interviews show ...