Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Protecting Maori heritage comes second best, new report reveals - Heritage pakeha buildings are better protected by rules and regulations than Maori heritage sites, a new report by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere ...

Narrow loses for both NZ Hockey teams - The inaugural Pro League features the top nine teams in the world in a home and away series, unfortunately NZ didn't get the start that they wanted.

Young people learn water and life skills on Whanganui - This year the Hawke's Bay-based trust took 130 young Māori people paddling from Whakahoro to Pipiriki, with a night at Kaiwhaiki Marae and a brief ...

Is it time for Auckland's first Māori Mayor? - With John Tamihere throwing his hat in the ring for the Mayoralty, Auckland could get it's first Māori Mayor. John, a former Labour Party Cabinet ...

LGBTI people with physical disabilities dispel myths about dating and sex -  LGBTI people are more likely to have a disability , according to a study . The study found 36% of lesbian and bisexual women ...

Iran publicly hangs man on homosexuality charges - Iran is one of the worst states for the persecution of LGBTI . The state publicly and regularly boasts of the execution of gay men. The ability to influence ...

Angola: New Code Protects LGBTI Community - Freedom House lauds this action by the Angolan Parliament to protect the dignity and rights of its citizens – particular those in the LGBTI community ...

World Economic Forum agrees for the first time to promote LGBT - The whole concept of “ LGBTI rights,” after all, means demanding rights for and taking pride in behavior that not so long ago was socially considered to ...

Australia Day could yet be a unifying event - Ardern wants take a new approach to New Zealand's finances, it will no ... economic and political and cultural integration of the Maori population .

Casino moguls end friendship over New Zealand winery - Mahana, which means warm place in Maori , is located at the northern end of New Zealand's South Island, and was visited by Prince Charles visited ...

One Love highlights - haka, tributes, waiata Māori - Day one of New Zealand's biggest reggae opened with a bang on Saturday when 20,000 people descended on the Tauranga Domain to watch some ...

Young people learn water and life skills on Whanganui - Results from a five-day camp for young Māori on the Whanganui River are "absolutely phenomenal", Water Safety New Zealand CEO Jonty Mills says.

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South Australia's indigenous community to lead Adelaide's Australia Day parade for first time - Proud members of the state's indigenous community will for the first time lead Adelaide's Australia Day parade — billed as the biggest in the country ...

If Australia Day must be January 26, let us lament before rejoicing - Most politicians are sticking with the status quo, to the distress of many Indigenous Australians and the deep uncertainty of many others, including ...

All the Democrats running for President in 2020 and their LGBTI records - Below are all the major Democratic contenders who have declared their candidacies and their LGBTI records. A major candidate is someone who has ...

Pride Toronto bans uniformed police from 2019 festival - Pride Toronto is one of the world's largest LGBTI pride festivals. As many as one million people attend events including a Dyke March, a Trans March ...

Wealthy Western elites fund Green activists to keep poor people poor - know several Aboriginal -owned businesses in regional Australia producing bottled mineral water from local springs on their traditional lands under ...

How Christians can unpack the baggage of colonialism this Australia Day - Church attendance on Australia Day points to the complex relationships ... The group demanded "full citizenship rights and equality" for Aboriginal  ...

No mystery in Aboriginal child suicides, says Josie Farrer - An indigenous MP says a coroner's report into 13 Aboriginal child and ... inquest into 22 indigenous suicides in the Kimberley in Western Australia a ...

More pressing issues for indigenous than Australia Day', Warren Mundine says - The Liberal Party's candidate for Gilmore, Warren Mundine, has played down his support for changing the date of Australia Day, declaring there were ...

Tasmania's Discrimination Protections For LGBTI Teachers In Religious Schools Work. I Know First ... - Last week, submissions closed to the latest Senate inquiry into national laws governing LGBTI students and teachers in faith-based schools.

LGBTI celebrities, politicians and influencers play major roles in the fight for equality - Queer celebrities help normalize queerness and break down 'structural views of homophobia'. LGBTI celebrities, politicians and ...

Over-tourism a threat to New Zealand's authenticity - expert - The authenticity of both natural and cultural experiences in New Zealand , which are the primary reason people come to this country can be damaged ...

A 'sexist' interview with New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has people fuming -  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was asked many questions in a recent BBC News interview, but some of them have angered people .

Improving 'well-being of New Zealanders across generations' will be criteria for Budget policy ... - GDP (Gross Domestic Product) only tells us so much, it doesn't tell us about mental well-being, what's going on with housing people , performance of ...

Revenge porn impacts New Zealanders across generations, study finds -  New Zealanders across generations are the victims of image-based sexual abuse, also known as ... "It is deeply concerning, and this is a lot of people .

School year set to start with 600 teacher vacancies left open - He is especially concerned with the lack of New Zealand people getting into the profession, and the retention of those who do, he told TVNZ1's ...

New study suggests New Zealanders have a higher risk of stroke than previously thought - The findings of a scientific study by Auckland University of Technology suggest New Zealand has the second highest lifetime risk of stroke among ...

Meet Zero-Point, Australia's first Indigenous super hero - A few years ago Darwin-based artist Jonathon Saunders conceived Zero-Point, an Indigenous Australian superhero who draws his powers from ...

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 ...