Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Call for NZ-style Indigenous council reform - For the past 10 years, every decision made by authorities at Auckland Council in New Zealand has been measured against benefits for Maori people ...

Merata Mita was the first Maori woman to make feature films. Her son tells her story. - In the documentary feature “Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen,” Heperi Mita chronicles the work of the first Māori woman to write and direct a ...

Māori at higher risk of asthma death -  Māori are more likely to die from asthma and respiratory disease than other ethnic groups, according to the latest report from the Asthma and ...

New survey shows Māori support for legal cannabis - The Green Party welcome the survey on Māori support for legalisation and regulation of cannabis released today, says Green Party Māori  ...

The $50 billion Māori economy is nowhere big enough - It often amazes me that when we speak of the Māori economy we do not talk about what comprises the Māori economy, how it is supporting the Māori  ...

A testament to Australia's indigenous people, and to an artist - recent years, his imagination was sparked by the culture of a people who could hardly live farther away: Australia's Aboriginal people.

The gruesome end of 'King Billy', Tasmania's last full blood Aboriginal man - is 150 years since March 3, 1869, when King Billy died and his body was dismembered in a gruesome fight between England and colonial Australia  ..

The untold story of King Bungaree: How the first Australian to sail around the continent lies buried ... - Bungaree, who circumnavigated Australia with Captain Matthew Flinders in 1802-03, was for many years the most famous Aborigine in the New South ...

No matter your skin colour, all non- Indigenous Australians are complicit in colonialism - Did it include Indigenous Australians from country beyond their borders? Non- Indigenous Australians of any skin colour? Or did the word explicitly ...

Artist Allan Giddy's installation will travel nationally during International Year of Indigenous ... - Poetry for the Botanic Garden installation was created by Aboriginal ... The funding from both Create NSW and the Australia Council for the Arts will ...

ParentsNext breaches Australia's human rights obligations, inquiry told - ParentsNext breaches Australia's human rights obligations, inquiry told ... women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians , according to ...

South-east Asia rethinks its sexist textbooks - Homosexuality is described as an illness or abnormality, and students are encouraged to stay away from LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ...

Award-winning gay Indian feature film screening on Netflix - Earlier this year, it also became the first LGBTI -themed movie released in theaters following decriminalization of gay sex. India's Supreme Court in ...

X Factor Malta host makes passionate plea against LGBTI conversion therapy - Camille argued people often talk about giving the option for LGBTI people to change their sexuality if they want to. But no one ever talks about the fact ...

Meet five 'Fearless' community leaders making Sydney's LGBTI community better to live in -  I've never needed to think about whether I should march against discrimination, or raise funds during the AIDS crisis, or open the first gay bookshop.

Bridges battles Māori tax exemption - National Party leader Simon Bridges is attacking the possibility of exemptions for Māori in any capital gains tax regime. The Tax Working Group ...

Health Reform a must as NZ tackles a multitude of challenges - While New Zealanders overall are living longer, Māori and Pacific peoples still have lower life expectancies than the population as a whole

Prisoners voting: "a right not a privilege" - 50.7% of the prison population are Māori ," says Awatere Huata, "That's a huge population of Māori voters effectively disenfranchised from ...

New Zealand airport runway goes rainbow for Pride -  New Zealand airport runway goes rainbow for Pride ... Part of an airport runway in New Zealand has been painted in the colours of the ... It helps warm the hearts of the people who support and are part of the LGBT community it, ...

New Zealand airport paints massive LGBT rainbow by runway for Pride - Wellington Airport in New Zealand has painted a huge LGBT+ rainbow next to its runway in celebration of Pride. The display of LGBT+ support covers ...

Being queer and Christian in 2019 - As New Zealand increasingly backs queer rights, are our Christian churches evolving or standing firm that homosexuality is sinful? Max Towle ...

Taiwan's move to legalize gay marriage a global victory: Canadian envoy - It's like a win for the people of the world," said McCulloch, one of Canada's staunchest advocates of LGBTI rights and a former professor of ...

Is The Eternals the first Marvel movie with a gay protagonist? - The Marvel Cinematic Universe might be about to welcome its first LGBTI protagonist played by an openly gay actor. New movie The Eternals, off the ...

Panti Bliss leads Irish float in front of half a million people at Sydney's Mardi Gras - I'm going to look more like an Australian drag queen than I ever have ... He said: “We are really proud of the LGBT plus community here in Sydney.

Portugal named most LGBT -friendly country -  Australia is experiencing the hottest summer on record while planning to connect Sydney and Melbourne with high-speed train, and China opens its ...

Dumped Wallaby Quade Cooper: 'I didn't feel worthy of being Māori ' - Dumped Wallabies star Quade Cooper has revealed his cultural identity struggles since moving from New Zealand to Australia while also putting his ...

The Drug Foundation says figures from a new survey on cannabis law reform are 'off the charts' - Foundation Executive Director says Maori are much more likely to get a cannabis conviction than anyone else, so it makes sense they want it treated ...

If the CGT is bad for Māori , then it's bad for all Kiwis -  Māori aspirations are the same as all New Zealanders. Māori want more money in their back-pockets and to know their tribal assets are working for ...

New survey shows Māori support for legal cannabis - The Green Party welcome the survey on Māori support for legalisation and ... The Horizon Research poll shows 75% of Māori would vote to legalise ...

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Monash scholar off to Harvard, then Alice Springs to help indigenous healthcare - “It's a good, pragmatic degree that will give me skills that will hopefully be useful in settings like central Australia in terms of the provision of healthcare ...

People and issues outside our big cities are diverse, but these priorities stand out -  Indigenous peoples are among rural and regional Australia's largest landholders. Native title rights are recognised on more than 37% of the Australian  ...

Much further to go" on Aboriginal rights - Hugh Jackman -  Australian actor Hugh Jackman has given his views on whether or not enough work is being done to celebrate and nurture Aboriginal people and ...

Type 2 diabetes is killing our people – and its victims are getting younger - Type 2 diabetes is killing our people, and its victims are getting younger. Aboriginal Australians are more than three times more likely to have diabetes.

How to choose a sports academy for your child in Victoria - So, if your child shows a whiff of sporting potential are sports academies worth ... The aim here is to grow Victoria's — and Australia's — next athletes.

Cardinal convicted of sexual abuse to spend first night in prison - The most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex abuse was sent to prison on Wednesday and will wait two weeks to ...

Mayor of Warsaw becomes first to protect rights of LGBTI people in Poland -  The mayor of Poland's capital Warsaw and LGBTI groups have responded to homophobic backlash after he signed a declaration affirming LGBTI  ...

Bohemian Rhapsody will be released in China - with all LGBTI content cut - Similarly, LGBTI scenes were also cut when the film was released in Malaysia. Over 24 minutes of footage was cut, which audience members said the ...

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 ...

Whangārei teacher wants exemption so Canadian husband with multiple sclerosis can join her - A Whangārei teacher is calling on Immigration New Zealand to stop treating her ... "Because under article two te reo Māori is a taonga and this is not ...

Māori boarding schools "still relevant" - Hato Paora principal -  Māori boarding schools "still relevant" - Hato Paora principal ... It's been almost six months into Nathan Matthews' new role as principal at Hato Paora ... special character schools, have been a part of New Zealand history for decades.

Help Preserve The Māori Rock Carvings, A National Treasure - This masterpiece is one of New Zealand's most extraordinary contemporary Māori artworks. Brightwell is wanting to lead a small team to improve and ...

Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle to perform with rangatahi -  Māori actress Keala Settle and Australian actor Hugh Jackman from The Greatest ... Settle and Jackman are here to announce the New Zealand leg of ...

In Western Australia , Aboriginal Women Are the Most Vulnerable to Being Arrested for Unpaid Fines - Following the 2014 death of Australian Aboriginal woman Julieka Ivanna Dhu, who died in police custody after being jailed for unpaid fines, officials in ...

Could you name any indigenous food? - When you hear about Indigenous Australian food, what images come to mind? Would you be keen to give it a taste? Dan O'Leary is an local ...

We're not part of the Australian constitution!' Grandfather is kicked out of court after arguing the law ... - A grandfather has interrupted his grandson's court appearance to insists the Australian constitution does not apply to him because he is indigenous .

Meet the Aboriginal teen who wants to represent Australia at the Paralympics after losing his arm ... - Keanu Calyon, 19, was a baby when he lost his right arm and parts of his left hand and both feet to chicken pox, but it has never stopped him from ...

Queensland resources industry recommits to promoting indigenous employment - Queensland Resources Council Chief Executive, Ian Macfarlane, said economic opportunities for Indigenous Australians are essential to making ...

Generation One seeks urgent Indigenous funding review - Generation One is calling on the Australian government to develop a new Indigenous funding model to address poor service performance and a ...

Schools failing to promote LGBTI equality and challenge prejudice - Too many schools are still failing to educate pupils about same sex relationships and promote LGBTI equality and inclusiveness, teachers have told ...

Cuban government blocks Blade media partner's website - Maykel González Vivero, co-founder of Tremenda Nota, an independent online magazine in Cuba that covers the country's LGBTI community and ...

LGBTI discrimination costs Kenya up to $1.3 billion every year -  LGBTI discrimination and a lack of rights is hurting the economy of Kenya , a new report states. Open for Business is an organization which gathers ...

Interim report of NSW parliamentary inquiry into LGBTI hate crimes released - The New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into gay and transgender hate crimes has tabled an interim report recommending further investigation.»

Māori teacher's husband barred from New Zealand due to multiple sclerosis - A popular Whangārei Māori teacher may have to leave New Zealand with her two children because Immigration New Zealand will not let her ...

Using sport to promote gambling - Is it harming whānau? - Other major sporting codes including New Zealand tennis, basketball, rugby ... Māori are eight times more likely to experience gambling harm than the ...

There are many trends swinging in our favour”, says Tourism New Zealand GM - Loosely translated as hospitality, manaakitanga plays a key role in Māori society and inspires the New Zealand visitor experience – summing up the ...

Medical Student seeks urgent claim against Police for bias - The 'Police bias claim' targets NZ Police for prosecuting Māori like Timothy Morrison in circumstances where non- Māori are not prosecuted. Police ...

Māori art everywhere aim of strategy - Creative New Zealand wants to see Māori arts highly valued in Aotearoa as part of a distinct identity, as well as being recognised and admired ...

The private prison experiments: Is there any positive in for-profit imprisonment? -  New Zealand has turned to prison privatization more recently, with its first ... And similar to Australia, Maori represent approximately 15 percent of the ...