Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Settler Colonialism Lurked Beneath the Christchurch Massacre - The assault was part of a war launched to dispossess the Māori of their land, a process that has continued by less overtly bellicose means such as ...

Turia speaks out against End of Life Choice Bill - Former Minister for Disability Issues, Associate Minister for Health, and founder and the founder and former leader of the Māori Party, Dame Tariana ...

Māori still more likely to die of cardiac arrest – report - A St John's report into cardiac arrest outside of hospitals shows Māori continue to have the highest rates of cardiac arrest and the lowest survival rates.

More rights for Maori under new planning rules - Ministry for the Environment explanatory notes, which Parker's office referred POLITIK to say: “The planning standards include a Māori purpose zone ...

Time for some sympathy for smokers - Fully 36 percent of Māori women and 29 percent of Māori men are counted as daily smokers. Once again, Māori are disproportionately represented in ...

All the countries ignored in the Brunei backlash -  Brunei will start stoning gay people to death. ... Australia's nearest neighbour, Papua New Guinea, where same-sex acts ...

Right wing politician threatens  LGBTI  photography exhibition in Bulgaria - A right wing MP has threatened an  LGBTI  photography exhibition meant to take place in Plovdiv, the 2019 European Capital of Culture co-host.

More businesses cut ties with Brunei over  gay -sex death penalty - Virgin  Australia  Airlines, the second-biggest airline  in Australia  after Qantas, ended an agreement that offered discounted tickets on Royal Brunei ...

Openly  Gay  Imam Tells Maajid Nawaz: People Can Not Be Defined By Just Two Qualities - An openly  gay  Imam tells Maajid Nawaz that people can not be defined by just two qualities, after Brunei moved to allow the stoning to death of  gay  ...

Brunei hotels delete social media accounts after anti- gay  backlash - Nine Brunei-owned luxury hotels have deleted their social media accounts after a backlash over the country's new anti- gay  laws. Any Muslim found ...

Sultan of Brunei's shock ties to  Australia - Slammed for introducing the death penalty for  homosexuals  and adulterers, the multi-billionaire Sultan of Brunei's harsh new criminal code may see ...

From Virgin  Australia  to Deutsche Bank – companies begin boycotting Brunei - From Virgin  Australia  to Deutsche Bank – companies begin boycotting ... the Sultanate's introduction of the death penalty for  gay  sex and adultery.

LGBTI Aboriginal suicide is the issue people are finally paying attention to - Satour is an Aboriginal  gay  man Yankunytjatjara and Pitjantjatjara from Central  Australia  and Townsville in northern  Australia . He is a veteran ...

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First Nations people not a priority in federal budget - The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister has all but admitted today there is no major item in the Federal budget for First Nations people. Indigenous  ...

Call for independent Māori children's commissioner over 'shocking' rates of abuse in state care - Tukaki, who has spent much time working in Australia , said he saw similarities to the "stolen generation" of Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander children ...

Report calls for new Indigenous institution in Parliamentary Zone - A new natural history museum and the relocation of an expanded Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) to the ...

More needed in Budget for dementia support and palliative care - Without a significant investment of funding and new models of care, under-served populations such as rural and remote Australians , Aboriginal and ...

Diabetes Australia appoints new leader for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health - Diabetes Australia is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Lee to a new role to strengthen the focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

When did Humans First Inhabit Australia ? New Findings Suggest a Much Earlier Date - Unfortunately, in Australia , the dating of Aboriginal occupancy has long been a politicized issue with some factions arguing that this population was ...

Where to drink the UK's first 'queer beer', the drink that gives back - Found in the heart of London's LGBTI district of Soho and around the corner from the colorful Chinatown, Ku Bar is one of the most popular gay bars in ...

Top Democrat denounces Trump's trans troops ban as 'act of cruelty' - Pelosi is a longtime ally of LGBTI rights and she slammed supporters of the new limits. Scheduled to be imposed onto more than 15,000 trans troops ...

What my transgender child can teach us about the workforce of the future - In some ways, LGBTI programming at Davos 2019 was a “rainbow wave“. ... When LGBTI students enter the workforce, 47% of them stay closeted, ...

Irish twitter supports the boycotting of Sultan of Brunei's nine luxury hotels - This isn't some obscure debate about LGBTI rights - this is solely about the right of gay people not to be buried to their neck and having stones thrown ...

We Won't Give Up Our Guns To Government - The gang leader went on to decry what he portrayed as a double standard held against the Māori community and other minorities when it comes to ...

Student numbers back to pre-earthquake levels - Six new scholarships started this year to support and encourage Māori and Pasifika students to achieve their aspirations for their whenua, whānau, ...

Māra Hūpara – ancient innovation in play, learning and exercise - Built along the Te Auaunga Awa (Oakley Creek walkway), the new playground brings together a collection of ancient Māori play artefacts into a single ...

Increasing Māori health workforce focus of day-long event - Around 40 students from seven Tauranga schools have taken part in a day-long event focussed on increasing the Māori workforce in health.

Māori media not a classroom -  Māori broadcasters feel the expectations on them to revive the Māori language are too high - and not matched by the funding on offer. Hineani ...

Why healthy homes are important - Across all age groups, hospitalisation rates are much higher for Pacific peoples (2.5 times higher) and Māori (2.4 times higher) than for other ethnic ...

Pat Dodson says murderous prejudice links Indigenous massacres to Christchurch - The Labor senator and Yawuru man Pat Dodson spoke about the links between Australia's massacre history and the terrorist attacks in Christchurch, ...

Protecting Aboriginal languages from extinction - Yidiny is one of 100 extinct (or close to extinct) Australian Aboriginal languages . It wasn't something Schrieber thought about much until he was at ...

Prized artist's little bird takes flight - I hope the book goes into libraries so kids around Australia look at the ... He is chair of the Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts Aboriginal Corporation and his ...

Federal Budget splashes cash for Far North Queensland - Small business in the tourism sector in Northern Australia will also receive an ... over four years to implement Indigenous suicide prevention initiatives.

Indigenous groups denounce Australian budget as 'punishing people in poverty' -  Indigenous groups denounce Australian budget as 'punishing people in ... Labor's Pat Dodson urges PM to 'come clean' on $7.3m Indigenous voice ...

Aboriginal youth suicide crisis is laid bare as it's revealed 24 indigenous people have taken their ... - Five young indigenous girls took their own lives across Australia in January (pictured Rochelle Pryor, from Perth, took her own life after a cry for help ...

Britain tops list of 'chemsex', says survey - European countries, Australia and Canada. And while people of sexual orientations reported engaging in substance-linked sex, gay and bisexual ...

I had gay conversion therapy in Australia — it nearly destroyed me - Although often subtle, comments from the pulpit or conversations I overheard between adults built the picture for me that gay and lesbian people were ...

Brunei enacts Islamic law as sultan calls for 'stronger' Islam - France and Australia also called on Brunei to renounce the measures, with both ... the death penalty for crimes including homosexuality , apostasy, blasphemy, ... Australia has raised our concerns with the Brunei government on the ...

Virgin cuts staff travel deal with Brunei carrier over sharia law push - Virgin Australia has axed its staff travel deal with Brunei's national carrier ... introduction of harsh new religious laws including the death penalty for gay sex. ... An email sent by Virgin Australia to staff said “given the harsh penalties ...

Our media institutions need a radical change - You might be Māori , Pacific, Asian (any kind of Asian will do), Middle Eastern, ... We are so far from giving a truly representative voice to New Zealand .

Ellen MacArthur Foundation hosts first Pacific Summit on circular economy - Mātauranga: What new approaches can we unlock when contemporary ... New Zealand ; Traci Houpapa, Chairman, Federation of Maori Authorities; ...

Stones shed light on early Maori settlement in South - Heritage New Zealand said today the geochemical signatures of the three shaped scoria blocks found in three early Maori occupation sites have the ...

Maori Council to make a move on care and protection of kids - The New Zealand Maori Council is launching a new campaign to highlight the number of Maori Children in State Care and the increasing numbers ...

New Zealand First opposes affront to democracy - There is nothing stopping members from standing for election just like everyone else,” says New Zealand First Māori Affairs spokesperson Hon Shane ...

Stay strong': Senator's tearful message to grieving NZ amid Anning censure - Struggling with his tears, Senator Dodson then addressed a phrase in the Maori language "to the people of New Zealand ", which he said meant "We ...

Stronger Together campaign to tackle national issue of Indigenous youth suicide - Stronger Together campaign to tackle national issue of Indigenous youth ... Merrilee Cox, CEO of Mental Health Association Central Australia , said ...

Supporting Next Generation Of Creative Start Ups - students an experience of what it's like to live and study in Australia . ... communities including young Indigenous people, the queer community and ...

A New Spotlight on Australia's Far-Right - But the New Zealand shootings are placing a new focus on Australia's ... By 1994 about 1 in 10 indigenous people over the age of 25 in Australia  ...

Suicide, Australia's leading cause of unnatural deaths — not a national priority - have helped found and established the National Indigenous Critical Response Service. At the upcoming two and a half years mark (28 June) of ...

Everyone is welcome': Adelaide Oval staff responds to racism claims - Oval has apologised to the public after reports surfaced that staff members were turning away indigenous Australians from a sporting event.

Tech support for Indigenous peoples - One of Australia's most successful tech start-ups has kicked off a new ... charitable organisations focusing on opportunity creation for Aboriginal and ...

Want to boycott Brunei? These businesses are owned by the anti- LGBTI ruler - So the next time you want to treat yourself to a luxury holiday, avoid these businesses if you want to support LGBTI people in Brunei. And with those ...

Bosnia To Host Its First Gay Pride March In September - Sarajevo, and will gather members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex ( LGBTI ) community from all over the country, activists and ...

Azerbaijan police are trying to 'hunt' transgender people through internet - According to reports from unnamed LGBTI people in Baku, the random arrests started last night (1 April). Police later took the detainees to the ...

What my transgender child can teach us about the workforce of the future - some ways, LGBTI programming at Davos 2019 was a “rainbow wave“. The Forum's Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality launched, making it on to ...

Disney on Ice's Moana segment to be performed in Māori in New Zealand - The next Disney on Ice production coming to New Zealand will feature a Moana segment that for some shows will be presented in te reo Māori .

Workers to benefit after living wage increases today - Not only has minimum wage been lifted today, but so has New Zealand's living wage. The Living Wage Movement made the announcement this ...

Tairāwhiti hack fest opens doors for Māori tech - Kerry Topp, the associate director of transformation & innovation director for Datacom, which is organising the event along with New Zealand Trade ...

Mayor Pete Buttigieg receives LGBT service award - As we increasingly are on the world stage, from the President of France to the Prime Minister of New Zealand , why wouldn't that be happening in ...

Learnings from NZ can inform Australian justice system - We are heartened by the New Zealand Government's commitment to reduce the prison population by 30 per cent over 15 years, which shows true ...

The luxury NZ lodge Barack Obama described as “magical” - It's the country's most historic region, the place where the first settlers from Australia landed, traded with the local Maori tribes and in 1840 signed the ...

Indigenous group looks to carbon farming to regenerate the outback -  Indigenous group looks to carbon farming to regenerate the outback ... "In western Queensland it's roughly about 200 projects but Australia wide it's ...

The top restaurants giving young Indigenous chefs a leg-up - National Indigenous Culinary Institute was founded in 2012 and offers apprenticeships to aspiring Indigenous chefs in some of Australia's top ...

The health crisis we're not talking about, but should be - We used to see one or two HIV diagnoses in Indigenous Australian in this area each year, but since 2014 there have been a total of 45 diagnoses, ...

Trees are at the heart of our country – we should learn their Indigenous names -  Australia , we should bring back into use the Aboriginal names and knowledge systems for trees and plants that are lost to everyday use. This year is ...

Years of research solidifies into re-think of history of Australia and the world - Professor John Sherwood at the Moyjil Site where he and other researchers have established there is a high probability that Indigenous people lit fires ...

Artists unveil epic new works at national exhibition - The biennial exhibition presents a snapshot of the best Australian ... Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art with providing him with a ...

Gay people exist everywhere - so what's the point lying to kids about it? - can be easy to fall into the trap of thinking LGBTI people only exist in certain cultures and countries. For obvious reasons, LGBT communities are ...

LGBTI friendly candidate set to become first female president of Slovakia - These are the celebs people would love to see as Pride Grand Marshals Presidential hopeful: Caputova set to win Saturday's Slovakian elections ...

Married Indians are looking for same-sex affairs after decriminalization - Indians, therefore, celebrated the decriminalization of an estimated 4.5 million LGBTI people. But, LGBTI activists and leaders warned it would take ...

How South African churches can make LGBTIQ people feel safer - Research shows that many churches in South Africa remain 'hotbeds of homophobia' . This is despite the fact that the ...

Massey University Wellington Senior Lecturer Dr Jason Mika on Paakiwaha - Dr Mika is responding to an Asia New Zealand Foundation report published this ... “ Maōri perceptions of cultural similarity with Asian cultures tend to ...

China tourism shift creating opportunities for Māori - Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis says there are huge opportunities for Māori in the Chinese New Zealand year of tourism. The year was lauched at Te ...

Living wage to rise following minimum wage increase -  New Zealand's 'living wage' is set to rise from $20.55 to $21.15 in September, announced the Living Wage Movement today. It comes after the ...

Retiring Māori speaking mayor says te reo available to all - Foon leaves as the only fluent reo Māori -speaking mayor in New Zealand . ... He says his understanding of te reo Māori has enabled him to better ...

I choose peace', Christchurch survivor Farid tells national remembrance service - A Maori lament echoed across Christchurch last Friday as a survivor of the New Zealand mosque attacks told a national ...

PM strengthens trade relations with China - The stakes are high for New Zealand as the state of its relationship with a key trading partner hangs in the balance. The cash that's transacted ...

Can Christchurch heal our collective wounds? - Just the fact that the Maori language, 'Te Reo', is one of the three official languages in the country, the others being ... And that is likely why New Zealand — and Christchurch, in particular — was chosen as a target for the terrorist ...

South Australians David Saint and Robert Woodland murdered for being gay in south parklands ... - Both men frequented one of Adelaide's most notorious gay beats and were killed because of their sexuality. Both were the victims in brutal gay  ...