Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

The Fred Hollows Foundation has launched a $40 million plan to stop Indigenous Australians going blind at three times the rate of other Australians. View article...

If you're buying a souvenir with an indigenous design on it, how do you make sure that it's the real deal? Last year a federal parliamentary committee ... View article...

Given Australia's vast Northern Territory promises the most soulful of ... the country's largest proportion of indigenous Australians and their rich culture. View article...

Given Australia's vast Northern Territory promises the most soulful of ... the country's largest proportion of indigenous Australians and their rich culture. View article...

"What I didn't want was her to come to Australia, to Aboriginal land, to use hate speech and not face any consequences. That is why I bailed her up in ... View article...

... when the conversation turned to the mistreatment of Australia's indigenous ... Stolen Generations refers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who ... View article...

Having recently celebrated the 13th year of the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (which included From Country to Couture, a fashion show celebrating ... View article...

“There's a real appetite to experience the Australian Aboriginal collection nationally overseas, people want to learn and hear the stories behind… View article...

A Māori land trust is not giving up its fight to build a holiday park on ... Of the 1.4 million hectares of Māori freehold land in New Zealand, about 540,000 ... View article...

Seven contemporary artists explore early Māori and European encounters ... An upcoming exhibition at the New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui Te ... View article...

Minecraft: Education Edition has found plenty of use in classrooms, the latest allowing students to explore New Zealand's traditional Māori culture in ... View article...

Housing New Zealand has launched a kaupapa Māori language line in its Customer Service Centre as part of efforts to contribute to the continued ... View article...

The Maori suicide rate now stands at 28.23 per 100,000 people, while the Pacific Island rate is at 11.49 per 100,000. Maori and Pacific peoples are ... View article...

The New Zealand-born director, who is of Maori and Jewish descent, said the release of the film was timely in today's polarized political climate. View article...

The initiatives include a new online resource to help people recognise if loved ones may need help, community-led "kōrero circles" and new health ... View article...

The Prime Minister kicked off Māori Language Week with a hint that teaching New Zealand's Land Wars could become compulsory in schools. View article...

The LGBTI category is open to individuals or organisations providing community mental health related services, programs, projects or initiatives. View article...

Clarien Bank, which is based in Bermuda, ahead of Pride announced a $10,000 donation to OUTBermuda, a local LGBTI advocacy group. View article...

When we see human rights abuse against women, LGBTI persons, civilians and the like, when we see other governments fall to a corruption that ... View article...

... humiliating and intimidating language against women, Aboriginal people, ethnic and religious minorities, people with disability and LGBTI people so ... View article...

Mugabe was also aggressively opposed to LGBTI rights, saying LGBTI people were “worse than dogs and pigs”. In efforts to escape persistent ... View article...

Greater choice and better care to support and build safe and inclusive practices for LGBTI communities is now available through a series of learning ... View article...

LGBTI people were denied two permits to publicly assemble in 2018. First, they were denied a permit by the Sarajevo authorities to observe the ... View article...

(Ben volunteers as a QPS LGBTI Liaison Officer. In addition to their regular duties, Liaison Officers provide support and assistance to LGBTI ... View article...

Indigenous charities left in the dark over fees to use Aboriginal flag on ... seen by Guardian Australia, noted the design may be used by Aboriginal ... View article...

The State Government is aware of the views of the Aboriginal community about adoption of Aboriginal children and young people and accordingly, will ... View article...

The author writes: “Let me introduce you to William Cooper, a pioneer of the Aboriginal movement for basic human rights who shaped Australia's ... View article...

Lee University will host the Indigenous Film Festival Series beginning ... now lives in a remote Aboriginal community in the northern part of Australia. View article...

This turned into a magnificent adventure, travelling around Australia and ... of the jobs we got were such a great introduction to Indigenous culture. View article...

"As an Aboriginal woman this is my history. ... An update in October will add massacre sites in Western Australia, which have so far been absent. View article...

Half of the Indigenous team refused to sing the Australian national anthem played in the lead up to the NRL game against the Indigenous All Stars and ... View article...

Frances Rings'Unaipon is a meditation on the life and philosophy of Australia's first published Aboriginal author and thinker, David Unaipon, whose ... View article...

“New Zealand has had a successful year with sports, with the netball, and ... The walk was a way of reminding people that Te Reo Maori is alive and ... View article...

'I was petrified': the New Zealanders deported from Australia despite ... New Zealanders of Māori and Pacific Island descent are over-represented. View article...

Next week is Māori Language Week and as part of that, the NZ Herald's masthead - along with NZME's five other daily newspapers - will be published ... View article...

The facility opened to much fanfare in 2005, with a stated aim of operating based on “Maori values”—47 percent of Ngawha prisoners are Maori—and ... View article...

Ngā Mataapuna Oranga is a health organisation that has programmes tailored for Māori. A spokesperson said the review has made a step in the right ... View article...

Julian Arahanga arrived in Hawaii on Aug. 31 for a 17-day Wananga/Wanana Residency at Bishop Museum where he and a second cultural ... View article...

Poor education outcomes for Maori, Pacific, and students from low income households are one of New Zealand's greatest problems, and fees free has, ... View article...

He is a former priest and fluent Te Reo Māori speaker. He has more than 20 years in teaching, researching traditional uses of New Zealand native ... View article...

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And let me drop another truth bomb as I drink my Chick-fil-A sweet tea: The company has never been accused of discriminating against the LGBT ... View article...

So Canberra is directly weakening protections for them, as well as for women, LGBTI people and anyone else who falls foul of traditional religious ... View article...

"Almost no religious organisations have been consulted, certainly LGBTI groups do not appear to have been consulted. "It's time that the debate that ... View article...

Thompson proposed that Clarke lead a review of the service, which included a review of available literature on barriers to care facing LGBTI ... View article...

Tasmanian LGBTI advocates are gearing up to defend their state's strong discrimination laws from any potential federal override under the cover of ... View article...

National Bank today announced its adherence to the United Nations' (UN) LGBTI Global Standards of Conduct for Business Tackling Discrimination ... View article...

Azerbaijan, Turkey and Armenia are the worst countries in Europe for LGBTI rights, according to a new assessment from the International Lesbian, ... View article...

The agreement that was signed commits both organisations to engage and encourage LGBTI people to be fully involved in rugby union. View article...

More needs to be done to provide indigenous people in NSW with adequate mental health care before they end up at crisis point in hospital, the ... View article...

There's never been a better time to be an Indigenous writer in Australia. But that doesn't mean they are having an easier time than other writers. View article...

Indigenous Australians living in low-lying tropical areas are particularly vulnerable to storm surges and floods, and many of these are cultural spaces, ... View article...

It is estimated that more than 1m indigenous people, comprising 400 different nations, lived in Australia before British settlers arrived in 1788. View article...

The convict-colonization of Australia was in full swing by 1825, when we ... The systematic annihilation of Tasmania's indigenous population is now ... View article...

Across Australia 90 per cent of the 250 Indigenous languages that existed before settlement are endangered, yet language was the "essence of who ... View article...

The Victorian government has announced it will decriminalise public drunkenness, just days before the CoroniaI Inquest into the death of Indigenous ... View article...

Speaking at a public lecture in Adelaide on Tuesday, Ms Gillard said constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians should be part of the reform. View article...

A modernised health system is especially important for Māori. The gross variations in service access and outcomes have been well researched by the ... View article...

By RNZ. Former Labour government minister Dover Samuels is calling on the Crown to apologise to a generation of Māori beaten for speaking te reo ... View article...

In return, treaty settlements provided for the establishment of new Māori authorities. These would represent claimants in the future, and would form the ... View article...

"So we expected to find a positive association between the experience of racial discrimination and hazardous alcohol use among New Zealand Māori, ... View article...

Criminalisation was an inappropriate use of justice system resources and there was significant evidence that it was profoundly unjust to Māori, she ... View article...

One of the best ways to see and travel around New Zealand is in a ... visiting the Te Puia – the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute where you ... View article...

Hāwera's Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngāti Ruanui will get two new classrooms, Inglewood School and Omata School will get one new classroom each ... View article...

The issue also broadens New Zealand's health inequity group – it unfairly disadvantages Māori, Pasifika and the poor, but if you have health ... View article...

... organisations, details of the legislation had been kept from LGBTI rights groups and people who are likely to be affected by the proposed new laws. View article...

The study was launched at the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business and Colors Rainbow event, Working with Business to Promote LGBTI ... View article...

In Portugal, we feel proud to show you our country's colourful landscape as a leading LGBTI destination. Where you will feel the warmth of our sun and ... View article...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has suspended public funding of LGBTI-specific television projects and films. The decision, which ... View article...

Footage shows Mike Pence protesters dancing outside Dail Eireann waving LGBTI flags and banners to celebrate those 'hurt' by the US ... View article...

The “Red Regional de Información Sobre Violencias LGBTI en América Latina y el Caribe”, which was formed by 10 LGBT+ organisations, have ... View article...

“It was historically epic,” Linda Bogle-Mienzer, a long-time LGBTI activist in Bermuda, told the Washington Blade on Monday. “It was this incredible ... View article...

A well-known activist that helps LGBTI Nicaraguans in exile has been arrested by police in Nicaragua. According to reports, Ulises Rivas was arrested ... View article...

... Western Australia and Queensland in the intensifying debate over the expansion of assisted-dying law from Victoria to states with big Aboriginal and ... View article...

In the early stage of Australia's colonisation, racism was used to demonise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to justify genocide and land ... View article...

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is donating more than 7,000 first-aid kits and stationery bought for the 2019 federal election to a range of ... View article...

Nowhere in Australia is the notion of old-meets-new as exciting as it is in Darwin ... It celebrates the meeting of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

“There is no doubt that more needs to be done to reduce the number of Aboriginal children living in care in Western Australia," Ms McGurk said. View article...

... will showcase knowledge, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from across Australia; give delegates the opportunity ... View article...

There is evidence that Aboriginal young people whose parents have ... to reduce the number of Aboriginal children living in care in Western Australia. View article...

Her book is a celebratory account of Aboriginal Australia for the general reader, and she covers wide and rich territory with economical pace. She aims ... View article...

The 2019 awards have been updated to align with the New Zealand ... named finalists in the He Kai Kei Aku Ringa Māori Tourism Award category. View article...

GPNZ's strategic planning session last weekend saw members send a clear mandate to better support the development of Māori leadership within ... View article...

In return, treaty settlements provided for the establishment of new Māori ... This determined that Tainui as a whole got NZ$170 million for raupatu ... View article...

Great leadership is so essential to ensure Māori health aspirations are ... Selah is one of New Zealand's emerging CEOs who has the commitment and ... View article...

Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Wairarapa students Iraia Matthews, Maioha Riwai-Couch, Matua Davidson, and youth development co-ordinator Cherie ... View article...

New Zealand Māori Tourism deputy chief executive Hoki-mai Chong says the business forum provides an unprecedented opportunity to promote ... View article...

New Zealanders have the opportunity to vote for that in a referendum next ... in New Zealand and within that total to reduce the proportion of Māori ... View article...

“The Waitangi Tribunal saw the persistent inequities for Māori a s evidence that the Crown was in breach of Treaty of Waitangi principles when it ... View article...

The Western Australian government have today released the state's first LGBTI Health Strategy, setting priorities and outcomes for the next five years. View article...

In Bangladesh, Amnesty reports that “LGBTI activists continued to be routinely harassed and subject to arbitrary detention by state and non-state ... View article...

Parkfield Community School in Alum Rock announced its 'No Outsiders' pro-LGBTI curriculum, school-leaders quickly encountered backlash from ... View article...

Run by the National LGBTI Health Alliance, a peak health body for LGBTI organisations and people, the Advisory Group will have a representative to ... View article...

In Scotland taking youth work online will support young people from the LGBTI school community, allowing teenagers from across the country, who are ... View article...

... society for all Tasmanians,” he said. “Especially people with disability, Aboriginal people, ethnic and religious minorities, women and LGBTI people. View article...

Rachel Chhoa-Howard, Amnesty International's Malaysia Researcher, said on the matter, “This is a terrible day for LGBTI rights, and indeed human ... View article...

Well-known activist who helps LGBTI Nicaraguans in exile, Ulises Josué Rivas Pérez in Comalapa, was arrested on Sunday, in Comalapa, in the ... View article...

A government that cares enough to propose a treaty with Indigenous ... mothers and children and the complex and deep history of Aboriginal Australia. View article...

A region crying out for more clinicians is Western Australia's far north, where the rates of suicide by Indigenous children and young people are among ... View article...