Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

A group of 40 Indigenous leaders have come together to discuss their ... On the weekend, the group of leaders from across Australia met in Cairns to ... View article...

I'm fairly certain Pauline Hanson is incapable of opening her mouth without saying something fucking stupid. So, it's unsurprising that she got absolute ... View article...

A report published by Guardian for Children and Young People Penny Wright in May showed the number of Aboriginal children in South Australia who ... View article...

The business case for the national Aboriginal art gallery, one year overdue, ... The release quotes the chairperson of Tourism Central Australia, Dale ... View article...

Most people don't know how foster kids in Australia live. They think ... Even more disturbing is that children from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

"Aboriginal people just need to shut up and get over it." ... She says, as at 2015, in primary and secondary Australian schools 5.3 per cent of students ... View article...

Nearly 20 per cent of students from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... Adelaide-raised supermodel Adut Akech, 19, said Australia has “a lot of ... View article...

Main Roads Western Australia chief executive Peter Woronzow is ... best endeavours to provide employment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

"Our view is that the Crown must now recognise Māori proprietary rights and provide what the New Zealand Māori Council called 'proprietary redress' ... View article...

New Zealand suicide rate highest since records began ... and there was also an increase in suicide statistics amongst Māori and Pacific Islanders. View article...

 I am a Māori teenager with a strong message to spread to New Zealand and the world: Hong Kong needs our help. The conflicts ignited by ... View article...

It has been four years since the death of Huata, of Ngāti Kahungunu, the man at the forefront of Māori performing arts, and a visionary. In 2007, Huata ... View article...

An advocacy group for Māori says its elderly are forgotten New Zealanders ... Māori had a lower life expectancy than non-Māori, were more likely to ... View article...

The New Zealander of the Year nominee for her work improving the health of Māori told Parliament's health select committee that the effect of smoking ... View article...

NZ Fashion Week goes back to its roots, kicks off with designer Kate ... Viva editor Amanda Linnell reveals what's in store for New Zealand Fashion Week, ... new-generation designers and Miramoda - a showcase for Māori designers ... View article...

Boil-up is a traditional Maori dish incorporating starchy vegetables and pork bones. She said the man was quite clearly implying he believed her ... View article...

Māori have lived in New Zealand for around 700 years and were accomplished horticulturalists, bringing seed and tubers from their original homes in ... View article...

From the US pianist Richard Glazier on the cancelled Carnegie concert: 'I was asked to play Gershwin last week for the US -Polish organization ... View article...

A group of LGBT people are alleging that they were kicked out of a popular downtown Los Angeles bar Friday night after being subjected to ... View article...

It seems as if each day brings new challenges for the LGBTI community in Thailand. So what's new (or old) this month? Concerning marriage equality ... View article...

Wagga LGBTI Mardi Gras documentary to screen in SBS series Untold ... Wagga will feature in a new TV documentary on the city's first LGBTI Mardi ... View article...

Australian health professionals are urging the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to collect data on sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex ... View article...

“I remember going to funerals of young LGBTI people and families didn't know they were queer; it certainly wasn't recorded.” Speaking about possible ... View article...

Members of the LGBTI community in Coimbatore have planned to organise the city's second Pride Parade on Saturday, August 24. The parade would ... View article...

The United States Supreme Court is being urged by Trump's Justice Department to rule in favour of removing LGBTI employment rights. The Justice ... View article...

The leader of Australia's far right became marooned on the nation's ... 800 ft rock Uluru in an effort to force Aboriginal tribes to suspend their ban. View article...

Aboriginal elders humiliated by crowd of warring Labor members who ... to award-winning journalism from Western Australia's biggest newsroom. View article...

... the appointment of the Aboriginal pastor Sir Douglas Nicholls as governor. ... An ABC poll in 1976 revealed that 70 per cent of South Australians ... View article...

Bishop Polding was Australia's first Catholic bishop. ... Ms Hendriks has spent her career in Aboriginal education at the Australian Catholic University ... View article...

Almost every person throughout the existence of humankind has looked up at the night sky and seen more than just a random scattering of light. View article...

 'Protestors defend 800 year old Aboriginal birthing tree from highway development. “The tree has been ... “Of course it is Australia. They'd nuke ... View article...

One of the most surprising discoveries was that the richest accounts of South Asians were in some of the Aboriginal languages spoken in Australian ... View article...

Three works explore the culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... where he watched the largest ever gathering of Aboriginal tribes in Australia. View article...

Mr Paraone worked for the Department of Māori Affairs, Te Puni Kōkiri and the Māori Trust Office before entering parliament on the New Zealand First ... View article...

The New Zealand Maori Council has been provided with the soon to be released coronial data on suicide in New Zealand. The fact is the suicide rate ... View article...

Mr Paraone worked for the Department of Māori Affairs, Te Puni Kōkiri and the Māori Trust Office before entering parliament on the New Zealand First ... View article...

"They're often the forgotten people, particularly those Māori who are living with either a physical or intellectual disability of some kind," he said. View article...

Kura Forrester is fast becoming one of the standouts of New Zealand comedy. This year she was the first Māori to win the prestigious Billy T James ... 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...

For example, New Zealand has had an anti-smoking law since 1990, which has ... See all the survey questions in English and te reo Māori here. ends. View article...

The terms of reference for the Māori inquiry will be presented tomorrow, .... The Government's new $54 million programme to tackle New Zealand's ... View article...

Hōkai Rangi is a five-year strategy which aims to drastically cut the number of Māori in prison from 52 percent down to 16 - to match the overall Māori ... View article...

Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis says the over-representation of Maori in prison has become a fact of life, that's having a devastating impact on ... View article...

Authentic co-design with Māori, incorporating a Te Ao Māori worldview, and greater connectedness with whānau are key elements of Hōkai Rangi, ... View article...

Bowles, 57, was put to death at a prison in Florida on Thursday, August 22, 23 years after he was sentenced to death over the murders of six gay men. View article...

The Bostock and Zarda cases are two of three cases concerning LGBTQ workers' rights that the Supreme Court is expected to hear this fall. View article...

Since 2013, Malta has dramatically transformed its image with regards to implementation of LGBTI rights. Civil Union and Cohabitation bills, as well as ... View article...

Join Out Proud African LGBTI as they launch their first zine publication of poetry, prose, stories and art works made during the Gasworks Participatory ... View article...

With the death of activist Marc Lambert Lamba, Cameroon lost a pioneer in the fight against anti-LGBTI violence. View article...

The legislation has been shown to religious and family groups but LGBTI organisations have not been consulted, many fear the legislation will see ... View article...

The United Nations Development Programme is set to pilot an implementation LGBTI Inclusion Index, first-ever global index launched ... View article...

The LGBTI Health Alliance has voiced its support for more census data to be collected about Australian people's gender identity and sexuality. View article...

Ms Turner said peak indigenous groups looked forward to engaging with communities around Australia to build support from Aboriginal and Torres ... View article...

It may not be Australia's capital, but multicultural Sydney is top of most Down .... Redfern gave birth to Australia's first Aboriginal-run health, legal, and ... View article...

The murders occurred at the Molgawo Aboriginal Outstation in remote Arnhem Land on September 25, 1988. Rostron used a rifle and a shotgun to kill ... View article...

Jonathan Pearlman Australia commits troops to Strait of Hormuz. ... “You can't have a non-Aboriginal organisation with just some Aboriginal actors and ... View article...

This is systemic racism and a contributing factor to Aboriginal women being the fastest growing prison population in Australia”. “Abolishing the offence ... View article...

This annual Festival, which falls on Australia Day, is the only Aboriginal cultural festival of its kind in regional NSW and showcases local culture, skills, ... View article...

There, a crowd of several hundred people, including Australian government officials, archaeologists and representatives of Aboriginal groups from ... View article...

A report published by Guardian for Children and Young People Penny Wright in May showed the number of Aboriginal children in South Australia who ... View article...

Smyth, who is from New Zealand, led students and the crowd through songs that incorporated Maori culture. The Maori are indigenous to New ... View article...

A legal battle in Sydney, Australia, is under way as Ngāti Rangihou Kanguru hapū claims valuable land was given to them by Aboriginal people 200 ... View article...

In April, Hauraki PHO's board of trustees said it was "reviewing its 15 year kaupapa Māori Treaty-based partnership between Hauraki iwi and general ... View article...

"Tuia 250 is an opportunity to hold some honest conversations about Māori and European settlement of New Zealand to guide us as we go forward ... View article...

The New Zealand Maori Council has released a comprehensive policy statement challenging the Government and policy makers to do more when it ... View article...

In May, we spent an incredible week road tripping around the “Land of the Long White Cloud”, New Zealand, or Aotearoa, as it is called in Maori. View article...

New Zealand's Māori development minister Nanaia Mahuta visited Australia this week and said the two countries can exchange knowledge ... View article...

He said New Zealand's interest in the Māori culture had grown over the past decade, seeing more New Zealanders becoming comfortable displaying ... View article...

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your administration has been taking steps to make it easier to discriminate against LGBT people in the workforce. Are you ... View article...

The permanent rainbow crossings have been installed to “show solidarity with the LGBT+ community”. Lambeth Council have unveiled the UK's first ... View article...

She had been living at Casa Respetttrans, a shelter for LGBTI migrants in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, run by Respetttrans Chihuahua, a local trans ... View article...

Victims have included religious minorities, individuals who are not religious, LGBTI persons, children and women who face many forms of ... View article...

The president of an LGBTI advocacy group in Iceland has criticized her country's government's decision to host Vice President Pence next month. View article...

That is why the resolution passed by the Education International World Congress sought to "include LGBTI equality in all campaigns for the right to ... View article...

Outrageous frocks, saucy dancing and an errant 'bits' bag highlighted one of the biggest nights at the Ord River Sports Club in recent memory last ... View article...

In contrast, the many LGBTI people who are most affected by it will largely remain voiceless in court proceedings. For this reason, the submissions of ... View article...

Merinda Dutton has always had a passion for justice. The story of her father - a stolen generation survivor - stirred in her a need to help set things right ... View article...

A new series showcasing the best of Australia's Indigenous documentary makers has hit the small screen this week on SBS's NITV. Karla Grant ... View article...

Isabel Lucas, a 34-year-old Australian actress and environmentalist, is said to be ... Australian Aboriginal peoples are one of the two distinct groups of ... View article...

Opera Australia has a long history of bringing classic musicals to local ... about a young Aboriginal boy in 1960s Western Australia is returning for its ... View article...

... Australia's First Nation Peoples. Koskela will present Ngalya, a new collection of lighting designs made in partnership with six Aboriginal and Torres ... View article...

It is believed that at the time of the European settlement in 1788 there were upto 700 traditional languages spoken by the Aboriginal people across the ... View article...

Aboriginal Elders have granted permission for One Nation Senator Pauline ... Touching down in central Australia on Tuesday afternoon, Ms Hanson ... View article...

The film was controversial in Australia with its depiction of the government's ... She trained as a dancer in Sydney with the Aboriginal Islander Dance ... View article...

In fact, Māori were active partners in the establishment of the first school, and the Pākehā teacher needed to learn many new things, including te reo ... View article...

Māori tobacco control advocates hope a new research programme will give Māori communities the tools they need to become smokefree. Whakaha o ... View article...

A legal battle in Sydney, Australia is under way with a Māori tribe claiming ... Currently in New Zealand, Māori protesters have been trying to stop ... View article...

A group of Maori people are calling for valuable land in Sydney's west to be ... Clan back in 1811 after they were first invited over from New Zealand. View article...

Lifetime Contribution to Māori Music Award recipient Pixie Williams sang 'Blue Smoke', the first local song ever recorded in New Zealand. View article...

Tania Te Whenua, a Maori lawyer who is working on a case for New ... alleging discrimination against indigenous Maori women employees, said she ... View article...

A Māori group says they have a claim to a major piece of land in Paramatta and have taken their fight to the Federal Court. They claim that 112 acres ... View article...

A Maori group have sparked a legal battle with Parramatta City Council over a plot of land in Sydney's west, after claiming the area was gifted to them ... View article...

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...