Stella founder-editor Amanda Donigi

PNG’s own magazine breaks new ground

And this week, the magazine has burst through a paper ceiling to launch indigenous voices from the region into 400 Australian outlets nationwide.

Indigenous people everywhere are typecast and pigeonholed on a daily basis, always left holding the onus to prove oneself in mainstream society.

This week, while defending her calls to change the Australian Racial Discrimination Act, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson stated that, “There’s no definition of an Aboriginal…”, disregarding eons of Aboriginal heritage and by the same brush, eons of indigenous culture worldwide.