Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Home ownership once signalled something so intrinsic to our national identity – a cultural assemblage of gumboots, fish and chips, pavlova ... View article...

The chief executive of Māori Television, which is a sponsor, Shane Taurima said it was humbling to see Māori achievement and success. View article...

Trevor Bentley's new book, Pākehā Slaves, Māori Masters, details the slave trade in 1800s New Zealand which, as he puts it, was "not something that ... View article...

Closing the health equity gap for Māori, better co-operation between health and social services, and more training for rural GPs to counter Northland's ... View article...

The sudden loss of her brother, Maru, in 1999 had profound effect on Dr Hinemoa Elder, and it still does today. His mental illness stole him from her ... View article...

But the East Coast town had reason to celebrate in style yesterday with the world premiere of a unique Maori language resource celebrating the ... View article...

A highly respected Māori kaumātua died suddenly after speaking at a memorial service held by Māori TV. Charles Eugene Berryman became critically ... View article...

Vladimir Putin claims Elton John is 'mistaken' about  LGBTI  rights in Russia -  The singer also accused Putin of hypocrisy for saying he wanted Russia's  LGBTI  population to be happy. Putin's comments came after gay scenes in ...

Israel Folau has hit out over the ugly attacks levelled at Magda Szubanski -  Folau who has been relatively quiet over the past few weeks while he's locked in a fight against Rugby  Australia  tweeted for the attacks against ...

Gay  Chorus Deep South Plays In Perth For Revelation -  Gay  Chorus Deep South' is a documentation of the San Francisco Men's ... First of all, this is a film about the San Francisco  Gay  Men's Chorus. ... to play in as many places as possible and  Australia  is definitely somewhere where the ...

A gay imam's story: 'The dialogue is open in Islam – 10 years ago it wasn't' -  However, the  LGBTI  community still faces many challenges. This Pride Month 2019, we spoke to Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, a gay Algerian imam who ...

Pete Buttigieg's presidential run endorsed by the LGBTQ Victory Fund -  The Victory Fund is a group dedicated to increasing the number of  LGBTI  public officials in the US. The group has stated it will only endorse  LGBTI  ...

Pink Dot spells it out for the government in Singapore -  Just days before Pink Dot, Singapore's most prominent  LGBTI  event, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong chose to downplay the level of discrimination ...

Australian  LGBT+ liaison police officer takes own life -  Brenton also represented Victoria Police and attended the inaugural World  LGBT  Conference for Criminal Justice Professionals in Amsterdam in ...

Any other  LGBTI  families? -  Hey, We we are a same sex couple from Brisbane having our second. My Wife had our first 3.5 year old boy now, so this is my first pregnancy. Love to ...

First Aboriginal-owned whale watching tours launched in Queensland ... to launch Yalingbila Tours - Australia's first Aboriginal owned and operated ... View article...

The High Court of Australia will have the final word about if the public need permission from Traditional Owners to access popular tourist beaches in ... View article...

The Australian government must invest strongly in Aboriginal community-controlled solutions if it wants better outcomes from the Closing the Gap ... View article...

Overnight the United Nations Human Rights Council heard of the alarming rates at which Australian governments are imprisoning Aboriginal and ... View article...

The Coalition of nearly forty Peak Aboriginal and Torres StraitIslander ... met recently to work withthe South Australian Government and the Coalition of ... View article...

... fly the Aboriginal flag all year-round after a young resident wrote to the mayor asking why it was not flown alongside the Australian and council flags. View article...

First Aboriginal-owned whale watching tours kick off in Moreton ... (QYAC) to launch Yalingbila Tours – Australia's first Aboriginal owned and operated ... View article...

The first Premier's Priority developed in partnership with the Aboriginal ... Language – established Australia's first Aboriginal Languages Trust, under ... View article...

SIR Apirana Ngata's famous 1940 speech at Waitangi where he said Maori serving in World War 2 would be "the price of citizenship" is no reason to ... View article...

Disproportionate number of Māori children taken into care. We meet not long before Matariki, the new year. ..... Elder, both won the Watties Book of the Year Award - which later become the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. View article...

Blaming colonisation and racism for the problems of Māori is the main roadblock to further progress, says the author of the groundbreaking novel Once ... View article...

"We need Māori to speak to Māori, so more Māori lawyers, a Māori social ... The funding increase was a condition of the Labour-New Zealand First ... View article...

More than half of children taken from their whānau by Oranga Tamariki are Māori and the number of Māori children taken by the agency has risen ... View article...

Targeting Māori, Pacific and Asian communities which are disproportionately impacted by gambling harm is a key focus of a new strategy released ... View article...

The Government has announced a $60 million package to fight problem gambling, with a focus on helping Pacific and Asian communities. Associate ... View article...

Sarah-Kay Coulter shares three solutions to promote positive change for the 187731 Māori students in education in New Zealand today and tomorrow. View article...

Pride 2019 in Bogotá: 'I choose to be, I want to live' -  Iván Escobar, one of the coordinators of the activist group, Mesa de Trabajo  LGBTI  Bogotá, told us that it's an important landmark: “This year is very ...

Prince William says it'd be 'absolutely fine' if any of his children come out -  While visiting the  LGBTI  youth homelessness charity, Albert Kennedy Trust (akt), Prince William answered a reporter's question about his response if ...

George Takei recommends a new  LGBTI  children's book -  George Takei has a new recommendation for all you readers out there, no matter the age: The Soulfire Chronicles. From author Chaz Harris (of the ...

Study Shows 39% Of  LGBTI  Youth Considered Suicide In Past 12 Months -  A new report has highlighted the major issue of  LGBTI  youth and suicide, with 39% considering attempting suicide in the past 12 months.

Why The Israel Folau Case Is Not About Freedom Of Speech -  In 2017, when  Australia  was readying itself for the Plebiscite, in which the nation would vote on whether  gay  people had a right to marry, Rugby ...

How a  gay  bar riot changed the world -  Consider  Australian  census data: the ABS counted some 9000  same-sex  relationships in the 1996 census, and that figure increased fivefold to 46,000 ...

How the Stonewall riots inspired  Australia's  LGBTIQ+ movement -  Their actions would change the course of  gay  rights around the world, including as far away as  Australia . This week marks the 50th anniversary of the ...

Australia  delivers verdict on Israel Folau debate in news.com.au poll -  Israel Folau's legal fight to save his rugby career has divided  Australia  ... but shows the increasing acceptance of the  gay  community  in Australia .

The Royal Commission's first Western Australia hearing was held this week in Broome, with a large focus on the provision of care for indigenous ... View article...

In 1838 white settlers murdered 28 Aboriginal men, women and children near Myall Creek Station. The massacre is a reminder of Australia's colonial ... View article...

An Australian business caught selling fake Aboriginal art has been fined $2.3 million dollars in a federal court ruling today, highlighting a thriving ... View article...

"We're the first group in Australia to put together a 3D facial library of Aboriginal faces, so that doctors can see what's normal in Indigenous ... View article...

The National Māori Radio Network is a group of radio stations in New Zealand that serve the country's indigenous Māori population. Under their ... View article...

But in Western Australia there is one stark exception — Yulga Jinna. ... It is using music and song to engage young Aboriginal people at risk. View article...

The court was told there were an estimated 10,000-14,000 professional Indigenous artists in Australia and as many as 80,000 more who were not ... View article...

first indigenous-owned and operated whale-watching tours will set sail in Moreton Bay from next week. "It is a unique Australian cultural ... View article...

Waitangi Treaty Grounds named as New Zealand's first National Historic ... Te Minita Whanaketanga Māori Minister for Māori Development Nanaia ... View article...

After World War II, Māori concert parties became a huge attraction in ... Action songs and haka were still a novelty for Pākehā New Zealanders that ... View article...

Maori and Pasifika communities are falling behind and financial services providers in New Zealand need to do more to help, a new report says. View article...

Last week, Netball New Zealand released a statement supporting the player's "inherent right to speak te reo Māori". They went to say that "all ethnic ... View article...

After World War II, Māori concert parties became a huge attraction in Aotearoa, like the kapa haka groups we know and love today. Action songs and ... View article...

"Applying macrons correctly in written Māori provides the meaning of a name and assists with pronunciation. This is important for all New Zealanders," ... View article...

A group of some of the biggest names in Māoridom will launch a fourth, Māori-led inquiry into the children's ministry, Oranga Tamariki, prompted by ... View article...

As an institution, it would have to operate like every other bank in New Zealand. The focus on a Māori bank as a solution to the lack of Māori home ... View article...

Hong Kong treats  LGBTI  couples differently in nearly 100 ways -  Nor is there any anti-discrimination legislation to protect  LGBTI  people. Hong Kong-based lawyer and principal editor of the report Will Yip told Gay ...

Prince William visits  LGBTI  youth homelessness charity -  Prince William made a special visit to a London-based  LGBTI  youth homelessness charity to mark 50 years since Stonewall.

Sydney votes to rename park in recognition of equal marriage vote -  LGBTI rights supporters gather to hear  Australias  marriage equality survey at ... Green previously told  Gay  Star News  Australia's  journey to marriage to ...

Folau raises over A$650000 on Christian lobby website -  Folau was fired last month after a Rugby  Australia  tribunal found him guilty of .... I don't care if players are  gay , straight, Muslim or whether they have a ...

Gay  Fat Dancer' Has Golden Buzzer Moment On 'America's Got Talent' -  The 25-year-old travel agent from  Australia  explained that his dance career stalled due to injury and bias. “Being a  gay , fat dancer wasn't it,” he said.

Nice' Folau gave up money, never made anti- gay  slurs in AFL: Sheedy -  Folau, who is embroiled in a dispute with Rugby  Australia  over anti- gay  tweets that prompted Rugby to sack him and Folau to take legal action, had ...

Australian  Rugby Star Sacked For Posting Christian Meme On Instagram -  It did not single out  LGBT  people, according to Miranda Devine, a columnist for The Daily Telegraph. Nevertheless, a standard evangelical post was ...

Christian leaders back Magda Szubanski's counter-campaign bid to rival Israel Folau -  Magda Szubanski is everything  Australia  should be celebrating. ... a constant, firm & true voice for those in need, especially in the  LGBT  community.

Pinned down, stripped naked, locked in a padded cell, and yelling continuously for help – that's how an Indigenous boy with a cognitive disability ... View article...

The national consumer watchdog has launched an investigation into Telstra's sales practices, amid mounting reports vulnerable Indigenous ... View article...

Sounds of Australia is a formal registry of the songs, jingles, sound bites and ... Kaeding is proud of the archive's Aboriginal content which he says has ... View article...

The Indigenous Australians decided to welcome the dancers of the Bolshoi Theater speaking the language that everyone understands - the language ... View article...

Prevention of avoidable preterm birth in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) families is a major public health priority in Australia. View article...

"NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people," ... View article...

If you're looking to educate your children about local culture while keeping them entertained these holidays, the Activities in the Park school holidays ... View article...

The Aboriginal flag is privately-owned by one man, a surprising fact for many who see the symbol as an inseparable part of the overall image of brand ... View article...

The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) has ... The full list of these official Māori place names is available here. View article...

Maori and Pasifika communities are falling behind and financial services providers in New Zealand need to do more to help, a new report says. View article...

Four wāhine Māori artists are on their way to Paris to talk about ancient Māori sewing technique and they way they have gone about reviving it. View article...

It's called whaka whānau nga tangi in the vernacular, if you ask Māori Agricultural College premier men's rugby club head coach Anthony Morley. View article...

In Tauranga last week there was a "It's okay to be White" leaflet drop. Complaints also came to light against netball teams from Māori ... View article...

The bill which comes up for its second reading today, and Māori MOPs across the political parties are divided on where there conscience votes will go. View article...

A Māori inquiry into the uplift of babies by Oranga Tamariki is being driven by a "powerhouse" of Māori leaders. Dame Tariana Turia, Whānau Ora ... View article...

The Health Research Council of New Zealand has awarded $4.95 million in funding for research into cutting the rate of smoking among Māori and ... View article...

The battle for religious freedom is a phoney war -  The push for “religious freedom”  in Australia  is an exercise in spin. ... But at the same time, in voting for  gay  marriage  Australians  have affirmed legal ...

Most  LGBTI  Americans welcome police at Pride parades -  BuzzFeed News and Whitman Insight Strategies conducted the survey from 5-10 June, speaking to 801  LGBTI  people in the US. Most of the ...

Couples from all backgrounds welcome at  same sex  Ever After All Love Wedding Expo at Brisbane ... -  Ms Eva and Ms Preeo launched greeting card business, Two Brides Presents, a week after  Australia  legalised  same sex  marriage in December, 2017 ...

It makes me feel a bit sick': Lesbian panellist unleashes on Q&A audience member who suggested ... -  to introduce a Religious Discrimination Act, which Ms Rugg claimed could reduce the protection that anti-discrimination laws have for  LGBTI  people.