Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Most voters support recognising indigenous Australians in the constitution ... Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt has committed to holding a ... View article...

Māori leaders have issued a call to action after a video emerged of Oranga Tamariki attempting to uplift a baby in Hawke's Bay. A wide cross-section of ... View article...

Māori language advocate Dame Iritana Tawhiwhirangi says Māori need to stop working for government agencies, and operating within western ... View article...

A Hastings community pharmacy's project to improve asthma management in a group of Māori and Pacific children has left everyone breathing easier. View article...

But Treaty of Waitangi lecturer Hemopereki Simon said his actions illustrated an on-going ignorance in New Zealand that needed to be addressed. View article...

A tobacco company is targeting Māori with its new e-cigarette because it wants to make ... Youth addiction worry as high-nicotine vape JUUL to hit NZ. View article...

There is one new name for each of the seasons: Raumati (Summer), Koanga (Spring), Hо̄toke (Winter) and Ngahuru (Autumn), as well as Te Puna ... View article...

A talk on the wisdom of the Maramataka, or Māori lunar calendar, promises to be thought-provoking and enlightening. Rereata Makiha (Te ... View article...

After being selected at a competition for Māori designers, Erana Kaa will be showing her work at New Zealand Fashion Week in August. Kaa, who is ... View article...

India's first ever  LGBTI  job fair draws a crowd over 250 in Bangalore -  An  LGBTI  job fair, billed by organizers as the first such event in India, attracted more than 250 people on Friday looking for employment with ...

LGBTI  groups urge the Church of England to 'follow the Methodist's lead' -  Anglican  LGBTI  groups are calling for the Church of England to follow the example set by the Methodist Church in its acceptance of same-sex ...

How much is too much talk about sex? This French philosopher believes we're overdoing it -  She says it's not about attaching shame to sex — there are many, like the  LGBTI  community and people with disabilities, whose lives were much more ...

Spain's far-right party wants the private data of  LGBTI  people and groups -  Spain's ultra right wing political party, Vox , is trying to track down the names and information of people linked to the  LGBTI  organization, COGAM.

Why we need UK Black Pride and why it was so amazing -  Lady Phyll is the co-founder and director UK Black Pride. She is also the incoming executive director of Kaleidescope Trust making her the first black ..

Student who tied red rope around his genitals during Pride fined -  Hong Kong has limited rights for  LGBTI  people. But high-level courts have recently made some historic rulings in favor of the  LGBTI  community.

Intel and Uber among participants in India's first job fair for  LGBTI -  An  LGBTI  job fair, the first such event in India, attracted more than 250 people on Friday looking for employment with companies like.

'I'm sorry': Zodwa Wabantu apologises for recent homophobic comments -  Entertainer and media personality, Zodwa Wabantu, has used her reality TV show as a platform from which to apologise for anti-gay statements made ...

In those two minutes, the emotions of our story, as Indigenous Australians, welled up in me. It's hard to express what I actually felt and what it meant to ... View article...

In the Munga Thirri-Simpson Desert, an ancient oasis and habitation site of Aboriginal people has been rediscovered after being lost for more than a ... View article...

The program bridging the gap to get more Indigenous students into university .... Universities Australia's Indigenous strategy aims to boost this figure, ... View article...

In the near future, Australians will be able to send emoji-filled messages featuring boomerangs, the Aboriginal flag and other visual representations of ... View article...

The Coalition party room is split over the plan to introduce an Indigenous voice to parliament announced by Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken ... View article...

Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce believes giving more Senate representation to regional Australia is a better way to boost indigenous ... View article...

Batemans Bay Aboriginal women celebrates her first job – on the bridge ... for its commitment to recognising and respecting Australia's indigenous ... View article...

This week is NAIDOC Week 2019 – dedicated to celebrating the history, culture and achievements of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

Educators need to throw out a "broken system" that has repeatedly been shown to fail Māori learners, a former principal says. Keri Milne-Ihimaera was ... View article...

A Palmerston North family are at the front of the line to make a submission to a select committee inquiry into Māori healthcare, but the size of the soap ... View article...

Te reo Māori card game Tākaro moves into production after kickstarter .... There has been a lot of interest in retailers around New Zealand stocking ... View article...

Waatea Leads Livestream Broadcast of Historic Māori-led Inquiry on Oranga Tamariki. Award-winning broadcaster, Waatea has been selected by ... View article...

A Maori Women's Welfare League past president says Maori problems need Maori solutions. Dame Areta Kopu hopes some of those solutions will ... View article...

For centuries, the Tainui tribes of the Māori cultivated massive gardens here. Even after European contact, they grew crops for themselves and to sell ... View article...

According to him, a Māori garden was always on the menu. ... To grow kūmara in cold, rainy New Zealand, Puke notes, the gardeners of yore mixed ... View article...

Jean Te Huia Māori Midwives Aotearoa CEO shared her experience and honest opinion of the failing realities of the agency Oranga Tamariki, inflicted ... View article...

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HIV rates among Singaporean  gay  men drop as PrEP uptake increases -  Australia's  not alone in reporting a big drop in the number of new cases of HIV – Singapore has also just released figures showing a significant ...

Acceptance of same-sex relationships falls in the UK -  Fifteen percent described themselves as 'very' or 'a little' prejudiced against transgender people.  LGBTI  rights activist Peter Tatchell told The Guardian ...

London is getting a new venue for queer women and non-binary femmes -  London has experienced a dramatic decrease in  LGBTI  venues over the past few years, with spaces for queer women being especially affected.

Dozens of communities in Poland declare they are ' LGBTI -free' -  Around 30 communities across Poland, from villages to regional assemblies, have declared themselves 'free of  LGBTI  ideology,' a local  LGBTI  group ...

Christian mum wears rainbow sash to son's  gay  wedding -  An  Australian  woman who's a committed Christian walked her son down the aisle wearing a rainbow sash to show her support for his  gay  marriage.

State Department Poised to Ditch Human Rights -   thinly-veiled attempt to re-write longstanding human rights principles to promote discrimination against the  LGBTI  community and women around the ...

Malawi activists Trapence, Sembereka charged, bail verdict Friday -  You are also accused of acquiring K7.4 million for training for  LGBTI  and sex workers, but converted the money to your own use than the training.

Will the Philippines finally ban  LGBTI  discrimination? -  The discrimination bill's sponsor, senator Risa Hontiveros A Philippine senator has renewed efforts to ban  LGBTI  discrimination in the country.

The NSW Government is investigating after Indigenous students claim they were laughed off stage at their western Sydney school while giving a ... View article...

INDIGENOUS Australians who allegedly had their wages stolen by the ... of Queensland, in one of the biggest class action settlements in Australian ... View article...

Aje's founders, Edwina Forest and Adrian Norris, felt that it was their duty to do justice to the aboriginal culture of Australia without glossing over the ... View article...

Blackboy Park in the city of Joondalup has long borne the slang name of the indigenous Australian plant Xanthorrhoea because it boasts five of the ... View article...

It was the biggest carnival for the Broken Hill branch yet, with 16 schools from across New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia coming together ... View article...

"The meaning of it for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia is immense, and it's really important that we send the message that ... View article...

Mr Wyatt, the first Aboriginal Australian ever appointed to cabinet, hoped to achieve bipartisan support on a referendum proposal, and the opposition ... View article...

There was also concern Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt has left a lot of "wriggle room" on the call in the Uluru Statement from the Heart for ... View article...

Forestry Minister Shane Jones says Māori landowners seem to have a better grasp of the Government's billion trees strategy than their Pākehā ... View article...

Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta says the reviews of Oranga Tamariki, including a Māori-led one expected to come out of a national hui in ... View article...

Te Vai Ora Maori - the Maori Water of Life - said the water on Rarotonga is sourced from high in the mountains and it's clean - there is no need to use ... View article...

Owner Lesley Leevey​ wants to do her bit to get New Zealand bi-lingual, and is doing so by encouraging customers to give te reo Māori a go without ... View article...

New Zealand had the highest number of suicides in 10 years in 2016, according to ... The rate of Maori who died by suicide was 20.3 per 100,000, with ... View article...

A $23 million event marking 250 years since Europeans arrived on Māori shores has been labelled "tone-deaf" by indigenous rights activists. View article...

Geographically the Asia pacific animal nutrition market is segmented as Japan, China, India, Australia & New Zealand, ASEAN (Includes Indonesia, ... View article...

The first Māori president of the New Zealand College of Midwives hopes to encourage a more community-based approach to training, in a bid to ... View article...

Gay men were biphobic at Pride: this needs to stop -  The Equality Network found 66% of bisexuals do not feel part of the  LGBTI  community. Figures that seem to have a knock-on effect. Bisexual adults are ...

Malawi police arrest two leading  LGBTI  activists -  Trapence heads the  LGBTI  organizaton, the Center for Development of People (CEDEP). They also arrested Anglican priest and human rights activist, ...

This bi woman was yelled awful slurs at on her way to Pride in London -  This isn't the first time Ellison has experienced anti- LGBTI  verbal abuse on her way to Pride. 'Last year I got dirty glances and tutting. This year it was ...

Ally for life' Theresa May did not take part in Northern Ireland marriage vote -  The prime minister pledged life-time support for  LGBTI  people over the weekend, yet, was one of numerous high-profile lawmakers to not vote in what ...

Australian  sports star sacked for anti- gay  comments, prompting debate about religious freedoms -  Despite being one of  Australia's  and the world's best players, Mr Folau was sacked by his employer, Rugby  Australia , after posting an anti- gay  ...

Scotland Is The First Country To Implement  LGBTI  Education In Schools -  Blue and Beyonce keep schooling us on how to match. Now this is how you match. Dubbed"The Leighton Jumper," the breezy garment is inspired by ...

Six Signs the Trump-Pence Administration is Abandoning LGBTQ Human Rights Abroad -  From declaring LGBTQ rights to be human rights to appointing a special envoy for  LGBTI  human rights and writing a government-wide memorandum ...

Bagpipes and Queen Tribute band marked British presence at Santiago Pride March -  The Embassy participated at the event to promote  LGBTI  rights, supported by the Foreign Office on a global level.

This Drug, Underused in the US, May Help Make HIV Very Rare  in Australia -  But in the past five years, the number of new infections with the virus has dropped by almost a quarter  in Australia , with higher declines among  gay  ...

To mark NAIDOC week, the RACGP highlights its position on the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and recognises the ... View article...

The Gomeroi woman from northern NSW has made a name for herself as one of Australia's most talented and sought-after Indigenous designers, ... View article...

One of the finest examples of ancient aquaculture and hydraulic engineering is right in Australia's backyard. After a decades-long campaign by the ... View article...

Indigenous affairs is a national priority for Australia. Ken Wyatt's appointment as the first Indigenous Minister for Indigenous Australians has brought ... View article...

The Hong Kong government has lodged an appeal against a court ruling that had partially revoked male indigenous villagers' traditional rights to build ... View article...

Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt will make his first major speech at Canberra's Press Club since becoming the first Aboriginal person to hold ... View article...

The inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern has been the site of many historic moments for Indigenous Australia, and now its small fire station has become ... View article...

The Mission Songs Project, from performer and music director Jessie Lloyd, delves into the secular songs Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

The prevalence of diabetes in Maori and Pacific populations is around three times higher than among other New Zealanders. Counties Manukau DHB ... View article...

 About four years ago, Māori TV started making one of the best current affairs/comedy shows New Zealand has ever seen. Now TVNZ, with its ... View article...

New Zealand's sexual health services are failing our marginal communities, ... Peter Saxton, New Zealand AIDS Foundation Fellow in the School of ... particularly amongst Maori and Pacific populations and men who had sex with ... View article...

The chair of Local Government New Zealand's Te Maruata Māori sub-committee says the association's new localism drive fits well with a kaupapa ... View article...

A leading teacher educator says teachers don't have to ask permission to teach local history and mātauranga Māori in their classrooms. Kathleen Irwin ... View article...

As part of the University of Otago's Maya-Māori cultural economy exchange last month, four Mayan academics visited New Zealand to share their ... View article...

Māori including herself have tried to achieve change by going to parliament, but the answer lies outside. "Until we have restored to us our right to be ... View article...

The figures also show that the rate for male and female Maori was double that of non-Maori. For Maori males, 2016 had the highest number of deaths ... View article...

Community leader Anton Hermann praised for support of  LGBTI  people -  Aleph Melbourne have praised the work of Anton Hermann, a leader in Melbourne's Jewish community, in fostering inclusion and acceptance of ...