Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

In his column for the Ottawa Citizen, Watson explained: “My reluctance has not allowed me to live my life as full of love and adventure as my gay ... View article...

... spoke powerfully on our responsibility to grasp the opportunities of the changing global order to transform the identity of women and LGBTI people, ... View article...

... who would seek to indoctrinate them with programs designed to promote the LGBTI agenda”, hit out at the book for “explicit language, violent acts, ... View article...

The official LGBTI supporter group of the Sydney Swans wants the club to part ways with airline sponsor Qatar Airways because of that country's ... View article...

Leandro Rodríguez García, director of the Cuban Foundation for LGBTI Rights and a 'vocal critic' of the Cuban government, was due to fly to Miami ... View article...

... which says its goal is to “protect our children from those who would seek to indoctrinate them with programs designed to promote the LGBTI agenda” ... View article...

While the government has discussed the proposed legislation with religious and family groups, they have not consulted with LGBTI groups who may ... View article...

There are no laws against same-sex relations in China and despite growing awareness of LGBTI issues, the community has been the target of censors ... View article...

The showcase served to promote the visibility of Indigenous Australian artists, and models from varying cultures, a broad range of ages, and a wide ... View article...

Australia's new suicide prevention advisor says culturally specific support ... semblance of parity between non-Indigenous and First Nations suicide ... View article...

The remote East Pilbara community of Jigalong, Western Australia, has come together for the Army Aboriginal Community Assistance Programme ... View article...

It can be a long arduous journey before an actor will get their first lead role in a feature film but for Batemans Bay born Robert-Joseph Slockee, fate ... View article...

The judge further explains why she chose to hit the Golden Buzzer in an Instagram video: “I was just blown away that he took his Aboriginal roots and ... View article...

Aboriginal Australian books and materials at Sutherland Shire Libraries will now be highlighted and easy to find with the launch of an exciting new ... View article...

Local science teachers will work with Aboriginal communities and a host of partners – State Department of Education, the South Australian Museum, ... View article...

According to Cricket Australia, the shirt symbol is a commitment as a team to reconciliation and finding common ground with Aboriginal and Torres ... View article...

"Secondhand smoke has been a campaign for sometime around New Zealand. Are you saying secondhand smoke has no impact at all, that all the ... View article...

He was one of the kaumātua who were promised by the government in 2004 that the new prison near Kaikohe would help Māori inmates turn their ... View article...

... also really excited to be one of the first Māori people going to NASA and bringing that back to my Māori students." ... The Government-funded New Zealand Space Scholarship covers the costs of the internship, including airfares to ... View article...

"So factors such as the proportion of Māori and Pacific people within our ... Kathryn Cook, said Statistics New Zealand had bolstered the census data ... View article...

The Māori King has challenged his people to protect their children and not blame the Government if they intervene to provide a safe haven. View article...

They include indigenous Canadians, the Cree people, and New Zealand's Maori contingency. Together, they stood as one and delivered what is ... View article...

Every name has a story: Why do so many Pākehā pronounce Māori place names ... "It takes a while to teach old dogs new tricks, but with this move by the ... and it's really significant, especially for the kiwiana capital of New Zealand. View article...

Māori King Tūheitia addresses Oranga Tamariki, Ihumātao in speech .... Housing New Zealand on building a new facility on Te Wherowhero land at ... 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...

"LGBTI people have the highest rate of suicidality - which includes suicidal thoughts, plans and attempts - among any population in Australia, but the ... View article...

LGBTI advocates have been urging the community to make their views known to the Federal Government about proposed religious discrimination and ... View article...

“I didn't come out when I was 17, I started coming out…” Deloitte Digital Manager Graham Price shares a personal story to nearly 6,000 people around ... View article...

Chief Commissioner of Police Graham Ashton today acknowledged the 20 year anniversary of the Victoria Police LGBTI portfolio reference group. View article...

Palestinian authorities have banned an LGBTI advocacy group from holding events in the West Bank. AlQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in ... View article...

The Cuban government last week prevented an LGBTI activist from traveling to the U.S.. Leandro Rodríguez García, director of the Cuban Foundation ... View article...

The National LGBTI Health Alliance are seeking expressions of interest from LGBTI elders and representatives to join an advisory group to inform a ... View article...

It comes after Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt last week explicitly rejected putting an indigenous voice in the Constitution, which is a key ... View article...

“What you have in this room is, in effect, the essence, the distillation, the summation of Aboriginal Australian culture,” Oldman says, motioning towards ... View article...

As with Navajo blankets, Japanese Zen ensō paintings, Gee's Bend quilts and much more, the similarity between Australian aboriginal painting and ... View article...

Mr Wyatt created high hopes in July when he announced that Australians would go to a referendum on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people ... View article...

Politicians have been urged to “get on with it” when it comes to the recognition of Aboriginal people in the Australian Constitution, although not ... View article...

"I think there is a dissonance between the Australia that most people live in, and the Australia that Aboriginal people live in," Grant explains to Student ... View article...

Aboriginal Corporation is involved in an educational program that is considered "the first of its kind” across Australia. The corporation's ... View article...

The Spurs' Patty Mills officially launched the community project he has been working on to help alleviate water disparities in his native Australia. View article...

Mita wasn't the first female director to come out of New Zealand, nor is she the most famous, but in her short yet prolific career as a director of both ... View article...

Starlight navigators embark on waka voyage from Tahiti to NZ, honouring ... He became the first New Zealand Māori to be appointed a Polynesian ... View article...

The Northland Regional Corrections Facility opened to much fanfare in 2005, with a stated aim of operating on tikanga Māori values, and turning ... View article...

But to allow the space of others to find by Māori for Māori. I will be there for those hard conversations. I am there. But I'll also recognise when the seat ... View article...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been accused of hiding away on Māori issues during a visit to King Tūheitia, while her Māori caucus admits it'll face ... View article...

The Manawatū Māori rugby team kicked off their first game of the season ... "I spent some time at the [New Zealand] Rugby Museum at Te Manawa ... View article...

So as we were going through and presenting about the New Zealand ... the government to merge elements of TVNZ, Radio New Zealand and Maori ... View article...

"This is pretty uncivilised in modern New Zealand," he told Checkpoint. ... And although 47 per cent of the prison's population was Māori, cultural ... View article...

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...