Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

An end to endings: how to stop more Australian species going extinct -  As Paul Keating stated in his landmark Redfern speech, we should all see Australia through Aboriginal eyes – more deeply feel the way the country's ...

Another Aboriginal reserve considers legal action over 'disgraceful' living conditions - Western Australia's Aboriginal Legal Service will look at whether there is a case to sue the government over "disgraceful" living conditions at a remote ...

Summer flu outbreak prompts debate on two flu shots a year - Experts fear we are on the cusp of another super flu season after a record-breaking 25,000 Australians were hit by the virus in the last four months.

Backing the strengths of Aboriginal young people - But if you are from a disadvantaged group, and being Aboriginal is the most disadvantaged group in the Australia , the issues of living with this ...

Indigenous people protest Ipswich housing development -  Indigenous people protest Ipswich housing development ... The development company, Frasers Property Australia , has promised to leave the state ...

100 of the Most Influential Women in Sport: Cathy Freeman - The first Aborigine to compete at the Olympics, Freeman had become the poster-girl for Australia and the event as a whole. She carried the flag at the ...

The Homophobic President of Brazil Just Tweeted a Video of Gay Sex - His election as Brazil´s president could pose a huge risk to Indigenous Peoples and quilombolas, traditional rural communities, LGBTI people, black ...

Gay Star News launches report in UK Parliament on Brexit's impact on LGBTI people - Brexit will reduce the UK's global influence and have an impact on LGBTI rights further afield,' the report stated. Moreover, the end of free movement ...

Israeli right wing leader compares LGBTI people to dogs - leader of the Union of Right Wing Parties in Israel compared LGBTI people to dogs in an interview, before apologizing for the remarks. Rabbi Rafi ...

71% of LGBT voters would choose Remain in a second Brexit referendum - They will form up into the official LGBTI column for the general march. The new demonstration, supported by GSN, is likely to be even bigger than last ...

Cameras, not weapons': young Papuans denounce the exploitation of their homeland - Residents of Papua , the easternmost province of Indonesia, have been ... We've built up a network of about 60 young people , many of whom live in ...

Indigenous education conference opens with focus on language revitalization - It also aims to have 85 per cent of New Zealanders valuing Maori as part of ... There is also societal pressure to pronounce Maori place names and ...

Health advisory boards rife with racism - A study driven by the desire to get behind the closed doors of government health advisory boards has painted a picture where Māori and Pasifika ...

Māori Climate Commissioner on Student Protests -  Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, says NZ is sending hypercritical messages by telling students not to join the climate change ...

Investing in the future of forestry - They are available to Māori and/or female students enrolling in a Bachelor of Forestry Science or Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Forest ...

The new stolen generation of Māori children - The new stolen generation of Māori children. I am deeply skeptical of the new Oranga Tamariki. Oranga Tamariki was set up after a damning 2015 ...

People and issues outside our big cities are diverse -  Indigenous peoples are among rural and regional Australia's largest ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander enterprises are active in agriculture, ...

Why don't Aboriginal suicides matter? - Tracy is the Western Australia's Australian of the Year for 2018, recognised for ... the burden of mental ill health and suicide in Aboriginal communities.

Where did you grow up? How strontium in your teeth can help answer that - Thousands of skeletal remains of Aboriginal people are kept in museums across Australia , North America and Europe. Many Aboriginal people refer to ...

Heartfelt thanks for amazing community work - His work in our communities is amazing as he pushes for recognition of problem gambling in Aboriginal communities throughout NSW and Australia .

Indigenous Incarceration - There is also a particular resonance between the experience of Indigenous people in Australia with those in other 'settler' countries of Canada, New ...

Woollahra synagogue welcomes indigenous voices for referendum - “I think that because it's a synagogue, people think it isn't open, but we are part of multicultural Australia , and want to hold events that are of interest to ...

ITB Berlin tourism partner Malaysia claims it has 'no gays' - Malaysia faces a potential backlash from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex ( LGBTI ) rights groups after claiming that the Muslim-majority ...

Only LGBTI actors playing gay roles is 'dangerous territory' - Pride Openly gay actor Andrew Scott has warned against calls for only LGBTI actors to play gay roles . The 42-year-old ...

Pussy Riot protest for LGBTI rights in Chechnya at SA Parliament - But that's exactly what happened on Wednesday when the feminist protest group Pussy Riot took to the steps, protesting the lack of LGBTI rights in ...

Gay and lesbian singers need to stop validating biphobic attitudes - Apparently not only does this biphobia happen in everyday situations within the LGBTI community – But in the music people from the community ...

New Zealand's infant mortality rate falls significantly in 10 years - A decline in infant mortality has seen some of the lowest-ever rates reported for New Zealand's total population and for Māori . The rate fell from 5 ...

A Ban on Smoking and Vaping in Cars With Minors Will Have Racist Consequences - Over half of women in prison in New Zealand are Māori . Smoking rates among Māori mothers of children under 18 are the highest in the country.

Fund open for freshwater fisheries - Fund open for freshwater fisheries. Te Wai Maori Trust is looking for projects that promote and advance freshwater fisheries development, research ...

Pacific's Cook Islands mulls new name - The committee, convened in January by a paramount chief, Pa Marie Ariki, is deliberating on a name in Cook Islands Māori , which is similar to New ...

New Zealand in pictures: Gisborne - The haka is traditionally performed at Maori welcome ceremonies and has also been embraced by the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team in order to ...

New Zealand's First Māori -Owned and -Operated Winery Has Global Distribution and a 500-Year ... - Some people have a one-year or five-year plan; well, we have literally a 500-year plan,” Dan Taylor, the export and sales manager for Tohu Wines, ...

It is still acceptable for gays to write ' Aussies only' in Grindr profiles – we have to fight it - is still acceptable for gays to write ' Aussies only' in Grindr profiles – we ... But in the time since, what has changed for queer Indigenous people and ...

An end to endings: how to stop more Australian species going extinct -  Australian species have suffered at a disproportionate rate. Far more mammal species have become extinct in Australia than in any other ... reverting to Indigenous names for landmarks, through reinvigorating Indigenous land ...

Kevin Rudd 's Sorry Speech - Sorry Day Apology in Full - Indigenous welfare remains one of Australia's most difficult and complex ... number 1, Motion offering an apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples.

Alliance Supports Uluru Statement from Heart - The Statement seeks substantive constitutional change and structural reform to recognise the rights and role of Indigenous people in Australian  ...

Tech Giant Launches Foundation to Tackle Indigenous Disadvantage - One of Australia's leading tech companies is giving away more than half a million dollars to organisations helping Indigenous children, as part of a ...

Pilbara racism row breaks out over mass cattle deaths - the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations) but there is no system in place to clean them out like there is in corporate Australia ,” he said.

China promises to protect its LGBTI people - China promises to protect its LGBTI people. A mother of a gay son talks at a China PFLAG seminar (Photo: Provided) China this week accepted United ...

Swaziland: 'Bisexual' Pastor Suspended By Swaziland Church in Latest Example of LGBTI ... - Churches in Swaziland where homosexual acts are illegal are at the lead in encouraging discrimination against LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, ...

NSW Police investigating four alleged assaults on LGBTI people during Mardi Gras - New South Wales police are reportedly investigating at least four assaults on LGBTI people over Mardi Gras weekend. The attacks saw men pushed ...

US Spent Millions Training Cameroon Forces to Hunt Boko Haram. They're Hunting Gays Instead. - As reported by the international advocacy group Erasing 76 Crimes, which focuses on abuses in more than 70 countries that have anti- LGBTI laws, ...

New respiratory disease 2018 impact report figures -  Māori mortality rates remain highest of all ethnic groups - new impact report launched • New Te Reo Māori children's show launches in Rotorua

Capital Gains Tax would hurt Māori and Pacific entrepreneurs - Capital Gains Tax would hurt Māori and Pacific entrepreneurs ... gains tax would put a brake on the economic aspirations of Māori and Pacific people.

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.