
Is AFL a 'redneck wonderland'?
Australian rules football players and officials have appealed for crowds to stop the relentless, racially-motivated booing and taunting of Adam Goodes, an Aboriginal footballer.
Australian rules football players and officials have appealed for crowds to stop the relentless, racially-motivated booing and taunting of Adam Goodes, an Aboriginal footballer.
I remember my first and only club rugby final. I was playing for Takapuna in the North Harbour under-19 title match against Silverdale, a team we had beaten earlier in the season in a muddy and....
A bouncer who was told she was "worthless" and threatened with gang action from two WINZ workers says dealing with verbally abusive customers has become commonplace.
But bar owner says the two Ministry of Social Development workers who abused his staff won't be welcome back.
Amanda Seyfried has put the spotlight on gender discrimination in Hollywood after revealing she was paid just 10 per cent of a male co-star's salary.
The debate about non-resident Chinese buying Auckland houses could hurt bilateral relations and Labour has already done "immeasurable" damage to the links between the two countries, says a top boss.
A group of Chinese individuals and businesses are planning on taking out a full-page advertisement in the Herald to speak out against housing claims.
Comedian weighs in on the property debate: "Being Chinese in New Zealand always puts you on the back foot."
Juwai.com has surveyed users and found 36 per cent of people spoken to bought property in New Zealand for investment.
The Ku Klux Klan is flourishing and exploiting racial tension in the US, according to a behind-the-scenes documentary.
South Island's Agassiz Glacier has been "un-named" as part of a global campaign to remove the use of the name of Agassiz, a Swiss geologist who believed not all races were created equal.
US President Barack Obama has led an impassioned funeral service for a popular black minister and politician killed in a church massacre in South Carolina.
A white police officer in Texas has been suspended after video emerged of him drawing a gun at a pool party and throwing a black girl in a bikini to the ground.
Numbers of older students are dropping and Government cuts are to blame, says the national student union and lobby group Grey Power.
Caitlyn Jenner's courage has been welcomed by the world - but do gay women on our own sports fields feel just as accepted?
It was "a moment bigger than politics", declared the Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, introducing his same-sex marriage bill to the federal Parliament yesterday.
A Muslim woman has accused a US airline of discrimination after an attendent refused to give her an an unopened can of Diet Coke because it could be used "as a weapon".
Yesterday, as the Senate began public hearings into conditions in the Australian-funded detention centre, those words seemed not too far from the truth.
High-profile lawyer Mai Chen locks her car on the drive to work because of abuse stemming from racist attitudes, Act leader David Seymour says.
The macho Kiwi rugby, racing and beer mentality is keeping gay sportspeople firmly in the cupboard.
More young Kiwis are hiding their sexuality than anywhere else in the world, a ground-breaking homophobia study shows.
A global study found that NZ has the highest number of 22-year-old males hiding they are gay and the second-highest number of lesbians concealing their sexuality.
An engineering firm that has a topless calendar and uses a bikini-clad model on the back of a delivery truck has been blasted as sexist by top scientist, Dr Michelle Dickinson.
A few years ago, I was returning by car to Washington from Baltimore when I took a wrong turn and got lost.
I was asking an American professor a complicated question about Anzus in a university lecture theatre when he started stroking my leg, writes Catriona MacLennan.
I looked back through the archives to see whether Minister for Women, Louise Upston, had ever, in fact, said or done anything actually worthwhile for the women of NZ, writes Dita De Boni.
Even after the fires were extinguished and the chaos quieted for much of the day, this city smouldered.
When Poppy Smart was wolf-whistled at by builders on her walk to work, she at first tried to ignore it.
Former Justice Minister Judith Collins has told TVNZ bosses she wants its news bulletins to take women more seriously.