Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Brian Tamaki signals political return: 'There's a new breed of Māori rising up' - Bishop Brian Tamaki has signalled a political return ahead of a Waitangi Day sermon in which he warned change was coming and how he was the ...

A successful quit-smoking program for young Māori women - Our work for New Zealand's Ministry of Health around smoking cessation in Māori women has given us a significant opportunity to make an impact on ...

Better supporting LGBTI people in a crisis -  But for LGBTI people, this is only one of many barriers faced in accessing crisis ... These crisis services need to work with LGBTI health and community ...

This Year's Mumbai Pride Saw Its Biggest Turnout Yet, and With No Danger of Arrest - Pride celebration he saw not one person in a mask. “Not only activists, but everyone at the parade, they could say they were LGBTI without any fear,” ...

Bubble of Māori docs changing profession - Chair David Tipene-Leach says it was a celebration of how far Māori ... in the numbers required to address the specific needs of the Māori population .

Ardern defends govt track on Māori prison numbers - Only about 15 percent of the total population of New Zealand are Māori . "Unfortunately what we know, is that we have over-representation of Māori in ...

Suicide awareness groups demand change at Waitangi to lower Maori suicide rates - The brother of a man who took his own life is calling on the Government to visit while at Waitangi and talk about how they can be doing more to lower ...

New Zealand at 'dangerous junction' with Māori feeling left behind - Don Brash - Controversial former politician Don Brash has said New Zealand is at a "dangerous junction" as he rallied against race-based policies and reliance ...

Papua New Guinea digital entrepreneurs make strides in new and old media -  Papua New Guinea digital entrepreneurs make strides in new and old ... 'I had messages from people in Vanimo telling me they were buying extra ...

Programme helping to reduce Maoris in prisons - We have seen about 1000 fewer people in our prisons, and so any work that we do on rehabilitation programmes ultimately does benefit Māori .”.

Enough is enough': resisting the criminalisation of poverty - Debbie Kilroy doesn't mince words. “Poverty in Western Australia is a crime – and the state government is ensuring that Aboriginal women are being ...

Happy Invasion Day': Police are under investigation after Aboriginal man claims he was bashed ... - Police are investigating a claim that officers said 'Happy Invasion Day you black c***' to an Aboriginal man in custody on Australia Day 2018.

Yorta Yorta people return to Cummeragunja 80 years after historical 'walk-off' - By 1939, many Indigenous Australians had died on Cummeragunja because of the minimal rations of food given to them, the lack of sanitation, and ...

Turbocharged Territory Arts Trail Campaign to Boost Tourism - A new marketing campaign launched around Australia over the weekend promotes the Territorys distinctive Aboriginal art and culture as the hook to ...

Steadfast invests in Indigenous -owned broker - The listed broker network has taken a 26% stake in Origin, which aims to promote Indigenous engagement with corporate Australia and uses a portion ...

I remember so many children who have taken their lives – it is a national abomination -  Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander suicides comprise 6% of Australia's total suicides but, shockingly, 80% of child suicides aged 12 and below are ...

Members of Congress urge Pompeo to condemn Chechnya anti- LGBTI crackdown - More than 60 members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 29 urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to publicly condemn the anti- LGBTI  ...

Calls To Link Religious School Funding With Removal of LGBTIQ Discrimination - Mr Croome called on the federal government to adopt Tasmania's laws prohibiting discrimination against LGBTI teachers and students in all ...

This is why Lunar New Year is a time of massive anxiety for LGBTIs in China - Millions of LGBTI Chinese this week will join the largest annual movement of people on the planet to return to their hometowns and bring in the new ...

Victorian government announces plan to ban gay conversion therapy - Victoria is set to ban gay conversion therapy, with the harmful practice ... to become the first Australian state the criminalise gay conversion therapy.