Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Children as young as 10 are self-harming - Meanwhile, research also suggests that there are twice as many incidences of self-harm in the LGBTI community than in the non- LGBTI community.

Canada voted most friendly country for LGBTI travellers, while US ranked just 47 -  The friendliest countries for LGBTI travellers are Canada , Portugal and Sweden , according to a gay travel index released earlier this week (26 ...

Meet The Dark-Skinned Melanesian Tribe With Natural Blond Hair - A school of thought believe that their origin is traced to the present-day Papuan -speaking people . Another school believes that their ancestor landed ...

National identity explored in Māori arts strategy - More resources for the Māori arts should flow from Creative New Zealand's new Te Hā o ngā Toi strategy. That's the view of Dean Whiting, the chair of ...

The New Zealand Chef Bringing Māori Ingredients to the Fine Dining Stage - All she really knew about Māori cooking then, she says, was the “boil up” (quite literally, cooking meat and vegetables in boiling water) and the hāngī, ...

A Walker in the footsteps of whanau and the council leaders before him -  Māori doctors' association chair David Tipene-Leach this month voiced his colleagues' pride in Curtis Walker, the first doctor of Māori descent to ...

Who's healthy? Lessons from Te Matatini - Could it be that small-scale efforts to improve Māori health are paying off but results are being captured in the official stats? Barbara Docherty writes.

Walk book reveals Mori art in central city - Walk book reveals Mori art in central city. Maori artworks hidden in plain sight on the streets of central Auckland have been revealed in a new book ...

Why National Sorry Day is So Important - According to the Australian government, somewhere between 1 in 3 and 1 in 10 indigenous Australian children were forcibly removed from their ...

Indigenous peoples contribute least to global warming, are often first to feel its impacts - David Ritter has worked as a lawyer and an academic, before spending five years with Greenpeace UK. In July 2012 he came back to Australia to ...

ParentsNext breaches Australia's human rights obligations, inquiry told - ParentsNext breaches Australia's human rights obligations, inquiry told ... the program predominantly affected women and Indigenous Australians .

Attempts to shoehorn indigenous studies into foreign language courses makes hard subjects even ... - There are subjects in which elements of indigenous culture can be ... in a way that allows students to learn elements of Australia's indigenous culture.

Far West Languages Centre involved with online resource - Gambay highlights more than 700 indigenous languages from across Australia and has been revamped ahead of international Mother Language Day ...

Talking Tiwi: local languages helping Indigenous customers - Talking Tiwi: local languages helping Indigenous customers ... CEO of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies ...

First Nations float set to lead Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras - SBS Arabic 24 will report live from the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade to Arabic-speaking audiences around Australia . You can watch ...

Homophobia and rising Islamic intolerance push Indonesia's intersex bissu priests to the brink - Indonesia's LGBTI community has experienced increased harassment and discrimination from hardline Islamic groups, police and politicians.

Voting now open for Mr Gay Pride Australia 2019 - Online voting for the annual Mr Gay Pride Australia competition is live now, with less than two weeks to go before the crowning at Victoria's ChillOut ...

How being an LGBT international student in Australia changed me - Do they want to arrest me because of being gay ?'" "Then I'd talk to myself [and said], 'This is Australia and you should feel safe. They don't want to ...

Enembe – the Papuan traditional chief Indonesia regards as 'dangerous' - In response, Colonel Muhammad Aidi, the military spokesman in Papua, ... It was a comment designed to break the spirit of the Papuan people , who ...

Action urged over pop song's karakia misappropriation - This highlights that we don't have a right in New Zealand yet when it comes to Māori intellectual property rights, and this really needs to be made ...