Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Health workers will mentor young members of the LGBT community, who are often regarded as high-risk because of their greater likelihood to ... View article...

LGBT families are an essential part of communities across America. In our recent collection of 50 maps tracking American life today, we included two ... View article...

LGBT groups are welcoming the proposed legal changes. ... LGBT activists and some doctors label that requirement discriminatory, and worry that it ... View article...

“Once again, the LGBT community in Ecuador is in mourning,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “We thought (the attacks) were going to ... View article...

“At the bottom of these violent deaths of LGBT people is exclusion, and sometimes total exclusion,” said Marcela Sanchez, head of Colombia Diversa, ... View article...

A new survey conducted by Vivid Rain in conjunction with The Initiative for Equal Rights has shown a gradual increase in acceptance of LGBTIQ+ ... View article...

McGowan said successive governments had worked to remove discrimination from the lives of LGBTI Western Australians, highlighting the ... View article...

“I will also investigate violations of the right to life of women, minorities, indigenous people, members of the LGBTI community, internally displaced ... View article...

Western Australia's first Indigenous-owned and operated quarry will be established to supply railway ballast for a $3.5 billion Rio Tinto mine in the ... View article...

Creating sustainable employment opportunities for indigenous Australians continues to challenge business leaders, but there is growing commitment ... View article...

Aboriginal academic ignites conference with challenge to medical ... In Australia when we talk about Aboriginal health, what we really mean is fitting ... View article...

"Through my research I worked with 25 different Indigenous nations ... "Songlines are more prevalent in Central Australia where Aboriginal culture is ... View article...

Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson speaks about the three streams of modern Australia: indigenous Australians, the British settler legacy with its ... View article...

A scholarship established to honour the first Aboriginal woman elected to local government in Australia has been granted to a promising young trainee ... View article...

Cutter and Coota will explore the story of country, taking in early colonial Australian history as well as enduring convict and Aboriginal narratives. View article...

In the early days of flight, Australia's aviators were engineers experimenting .... A Gangalu woman, Griffin is the first Aboriginal person in Australia to ... View article...

A justice reform advocate says Corrections needs to get out of the way and let Māori drive the co-design of a new strategy to reduce the proportion of ... View article...

Corrections is hiring a Māori deputy chief executive as part of the ... to break the cycle of Māori reoffending and imprisonment in New Zealand. View article...

New Zealand's Whanganui River is the lifeblood of the Māori. The tribes of Whanganui take their name, their spirit, and their strength from this great ... View article...

But she may be meeting with some of those involved in the ongoing dispute, and discussing it with the Māori King on Tuesday. Ardern has repeatedly ... View article...

Corrections minister Kelvin Davis joins Heather Du Plessis-Allan to talk about the Government's goal to reduce the Maori population in prisons. View article...

The new library's collection would focus on genres such as Māori and Māori local history, NZ fiction, biography, books in te reo Māori, art and ... View article...

It could be repeated 1000 times anywhere in New Zealand. ... to research their land title and find out how their property was alienated from Maori. View article...

Prisoner rights advocate Awatea Mita has done time at a minimum-security prison in New Zealand and knows the toll it can take on a family. View article...

For Thomas Argue, growing up in Victoria County in the 1990s was idyllic in some ways, humiliating and painful in others. Argue, who is gay, was ... View article...

Older LGBTI men and women are harbouring such great concern over entering aged care they are considering an “exit” plan as a last resort, while ... View article...

 The capital is going to witness its 16th LGBTI pride parade today. Annually organised by the Blue Diamond Society on the day of Gai ... View article...

When Putin launched his relatively unpopular third presidential campaign in 2012 against a background of mass protests, the demonisation of LGBTI ... View article...

The impact of MRIF's 6th small-business course for LGBTI entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro and how it contributed to their socio-economic ... View article...

Mental health also featured on the agenda of the first South Asian LGBTI Conference last summer, due to the links between “coming out” and mental ... View article...

The last few weeks have been busy for LGBTI activists in Northern Ireland. Lawyers representing a man who sued a bakery after it refused to bake him ... View article...

AIDR has engaged with the Gender and Disaster Pod to improve our understanding of LGBTI people's experience of disasters LGBTI-inclusive ... View article...

INDIGENOUS Affairs minister Ken Wyatt has described Australia's advancement in Aboriginal affairs as a “pendulum” in a speech in Darwin last night. View article...

“We want the gap between health outcomes in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians to be significantly reduced, ... View article...

While it appears his efforts to include a question in the Australian census about ... the Australian Council of Social Service and the National Aboriginal ... View article...

The Stanner Award is presented by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Stait Islander Studies biennially for the best new manuscript written ... View article...

These and other common patterns, as well as the remarkably complex narratives describing them, link the cultures of early Aboriginal Australians and ... View article...

... is one of about 60 candidates seeking election to the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria, which will set the framework for the first Aboriginal treaty. View article...

Man carrying Aboriginal flag arrested by police as union and climate ... that,” he told reporters at the South Australian Liberal state council on Saturday. View article...

“Up to 80,000 Aboriginal Australians identify as queer [but] they're not safe to come out due to religious colonisation occurring in remote and regional ... View article...

 The Story of New Zealand Comedy has been a real breath of .... to play.stuff.co.nz or Māori Television On Demand and find Aroha Bridge. View article...

Our Māori people are a subset of Polynesian culture, but where did ... direction, Tasman was the first European to see New Zealand and Tonga. By the ... View article...

Maori showbands such as The Howard Morrison Quartet had a New ... They were a New Zealand band and Maori and Pacific Islanders at that ... View article...

Karaitiana, a dance-band pianist, wrote the song on board the troop ship Aquitania in 1940 as he travelled across the Indian Ocean with the Maori ... View article...

It was also the last time New Zealand's health statistics – for non-Māori at least – led the world. As the then Department of Health's annual report noted ... View article...

Thousands of others, most of them Māori, are living in sub-standard homes, some of them without power or running water. "Whare Ora is an attempt to ... View article...

We live right in the middle of "one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind", yet we probably don't realise that. Our Māori people are a ... View article...

I loved the fact that guys that might never play for Munster again, they go in, put on the jersey and beat the New Zealand Maori. That's it, they're in. View article...

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Violence against the Russian LGBT+ community has surged in recent years after Russia's parliament passed a federal law banning “gay propaganda” ... View article...

A group of LGBT content creators is suing YouTube and its parent company, Google, for allegedly discriminating against gay material. View article...

The organisation has been all about power and wealth, using Family members and friends in politics to support its anti-gay, anti-abortion, and ... View article...

'Norwich doesn't appreciate homophobia. 'I complained to the staff at the station and they were already aware of who I was talking about, so why has ... View article...

The customer, gay rights activist Gareth Lee, sued the company for discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and political beliefs. View article...

North Macedonia's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has apologised after using the Macedonia word for  ”****” to describe a gay man at the centre of a ... View article...

LGBTI persons are particularly exposed to institutional violence in detention settings. The APT is convening a meeting of torture prevention experts as ... View article...

“He lives in the community where the gang resides and this gang has terrorised the community, especially the LGBTI community, for many years. View article...

Mark has been making waves in Australia as one of the country's most famous indigenous chefs. The 57-year-old got his start with a cooking segment ... View article...

“Kakadu is one of Australia's iconic tourism destinations, welcoming more than ... and delivering benefits for sustainable and Indigenous-led tourism. View article...

This birthplace story of Indigenous Australian painters looks somewhat like the root story of Native American painters. As is so regularly the case with ... View article...

The largest remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia is rapidly running out of drinking water. And as the quality of what remains deteriorates, ... View article...

Artists and art collectors alike gathered in the Northern Territory capital to fete the meeting of fashion and Indigenous textiles at the 2019 Darwin ... View article...

Ningali trained as a dancer at the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre, then continued to perform professionally with Bangarra Dance Theatre in ... View article...

After growing up at Perth's Sister Kate's Home for Aboriginal children Polly went to East Perth Football Club and became a young Western Australian ... View article...

Ningali Lawford-Wolf, Australian actress and performer, has died at the age of 52. The actress, who was of Aboriginal descent, was performing a ... View article...

Her aim was to became a museum curator and her ultimate dream was to work in a museum overseas promoting New Zealand and Māori history to ... View article...

“The passage from French Polynesia to New Zealand will be difficult and dangerous, and a testament to the skill of Māori ancestors who voyaged ... View article...

New Zealand's first urban growth partnership between the Government, local ... Māori Development and Associate Housing Minister – and MP for ... View article...

The chair of northernmost iwi Ngāti Kuri says new thinking is needed to ... part of New Zealand's Exclusive Econmic Zone, National ignored Māori ... View article...

... School was chosen for the pilot as a low-decile school with a large proportion of Māori and Pacific students, which the programme aimed to target. View article...

It's the first time in New Zealand's history that the Treaty of Waitangi has ... She said it was important Maori realised it was not a truth that their lives ... View article...

Māori and Pasifika children made up two thirds of children under two ... Dr Tristram Ingram said in 2015, 7.6 percent of New Zealand children in this ... View article...

Māori landowners in the Far North have gathered to dispute the way their properties are rated and a Northland lawyer's backed them, saying the ... View article...

But he controversially added that he would not allow “a few criminals, one vain journalist and, I apologize in advance to the LGBTI community, a faggot ... View article...

Cofer was only out as trans to a handful of close friends, and was remembered as “extremely bright” and “well-liked”. A friend of Cofer's, who chooses ... View article...

Simply entitled Diana, the original musical follows the 'people's princess' as she prepares to marry Prince Charles and become a royal. View article...

UK pharma reputation falls due to Brexit and other factors ... Less than one-third of UK patient groups rate the reputation of the pharma industry as ... with one group representing people with HIV/AIDS, saying that companies should ... View article...

And when he's not working, he's showing American Saddlebred horses or raising awareness for philanthropies serving the LGBT community. View article...

Engaging financial institutions on LGBTI inclusion, including the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the private sector, and ensuring LGBTI voices ... View article...

And also there its inhabitants ask that the truth be told and known about what happened to men, women, children, Barí people, black people, LGBTI ... View article...

The half day workshop will be facilitated by Pride in Diversity, a specialist program for LGBTI inclusion, which is dedicated to improving the health and ... View article...

The largest remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia is rapidly ... The NT Government said it was also working with Geoscience Australia to ... View article...

Maori, who account for about 15% of the population, were dispossessed of much of their land during colonization View article...

Aboriginal Australians are affected disproportionately by this disease. Dr O'Sullivan is collaborating with indigenous researchers in Redfern NSW, and ... View article...

Deb explains how the song came about: "The choir were on the lookout for a song that gave voice to how we as non-indigenous Australians feel about ... View article...

Since 2006, Adelaide Festival Centre has showcased the quality and diversity of art created by South Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

Bea Bea Creek quarry, the first indigenous-owned and operated quarry in Western Australia, will be established to fulfil the contract. Rio Tinto Iron Ore ... View article...

La Trobe offers new studies into Multicultural Australia and the Greek ... of reconciliation with Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. View article...

Aboriginal families having their baby at the Women's and Children's Hospital will now have access to South Australia's first ever purpose-built unit for ... View article...

The Māori Council says that's absolutely not good enough. ... The report recommended that rather than a new census, Stats NZ would be better to hold ... View article...

Expect to see Aotearoa's oldest dish more prominently on the menu after Tāmaki Makaurau's Hangi Master took out the New Zealand Māori Tourism's ... View article...

Ria Earp is chair of Te Rōpū Māori, the commission's Māori advisory group. New Zealand Doctor asked whether advisory groups and DHB Māori ... View article...

The country's biggest iwi says the botched 2018 Census has left Māori ... Stats NZ is confident it has plugged most of the data gaps, including Māori ... View article...

She called me out, and so she should, because upholding tikanga Māori is more important than my .... Now is an exciting time for New Zealand food. View article...

A far north Iwi leader says the Far North District Council's rating policy is designed to strike fear among Māori landowners, and it needs to change. View article...

A Rotorua-based polytechnic is trying to turn around the region's poor health outcomes by offering the first health science diploma with a Māori ... View article...

IZAKAI has won “Outstanding New Venue” in the Bay of Plenty Hospitality Awards. IZAKAI blends traditional Japanese food with a New Zealand Māori ... View article...

The late Robin Williams stars as Armand Goldman, the openly gay owner of a ... Starring Taron Egerton as the iconic British singer-songwriter, fantasy ... View article...

Not only are there more LGBT TV characters on small screens this year, but many are also written with much more care than the gays of years past. View article...