Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Too many heads in the sand on poverty and inequality : "To blame their plight on those who are working hard and productively, or to present the position of New Zealand's poorest as being in the same category as those facing desperate poverty elsewhere in the world, is to fail to focus on how best to help ... New Zealand Herald

Jacinda Ardern: Putting impatience to work for vulnerable kids : An astounding 20 per cent of children in New Zealand are growing up without the basics. What many people don't realise, and what the Green Paper only brushes over, is that a good portion of those are living in families where at least one parent is in ...

World Day of Prayer this Friday : The annual offering supports the work of World Day of Prayer and helps meet the needs of families in Malaysia and around the world who are victims of many forms of poverty , violence and injustice. The women of Malaysia will open the service for 2012 ...

Labour market will benefit from late retirement : Paradoxically, at the macro level, Malaysia will likely be categorised as an ageing nation by 2030 with the number of people above the age of 60 reaching 15 per cent of the population. The percentage of ageing people in Malaysia is steadily increasing ... New Straits Times

Labor MPs defy minister over Papua : LABOR backbenchers have angrily defied a call by acting Foreign Minister Craig Emerson to boycott a meeting on the disputed province of West Papua so Indonesia is not offended. Indonesian embassy officials have raised concerns with the government over ... 日本 | 中国 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | AU-Malaysia | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase

International Parliamentarians in Papua have new profile : The suffering of the West Papuan people and the denial of their right to self-determination has become a dirty secret hidden from the rest of the Pacific region. Indonesia has controlled the region against the wishes of the indigenous people for nearly ...

Formal apology for 150000 Australian women forced to give up newborn babies Today, following an 18-month inquiry, a parliamentary committee recommended that they should receive a formal apology, similar to the one delivered to the Aboriginal “Stolen Generations”. One committee member, Claire Moore, called the forced adoptions ...

Mundine looks set to become senator : INDIGENOUS leaders yesterday welcomed the likelihood that Warren Mundine will become the first indigenous person to represent the Labor Party in Federal Parliament. Mr Mundine, a former ALP national president, has been approached to fill the Senate ...

Mokbel bracing to fight 'unconstitutional' law Mokbel is currently trying to change his plea of guilty to three drug trafficking charges, that each carry a maximum life sentence. In a brief hearing before Justice Simon Whelan, Peter Faris QC, said he was yet to look closely at the draft legislation ...

Welcome signs for indigenous children LITERACY and numeracy is improving among indigenous children in Western Australia and, more than ever, 17-year-old Aboriginal boys and girls across the state are in school, employment or training. Children's Commissioner Michelle Scott's inaugural ...

Diversity still out of the picture : IF you think Australian TV is dominated by white faces, you're certainly not alone. When Samoan actor Jay Laga'aia recently criticised Australian TV for racism and not casting multicultural actors after being cut loose from Channel Seven's long-running ... Sydney Morning Herald

Gay Asians fight stereotypes : (Mandarin News Australia , SBS) A new magazine hopes to reach gay men in Asian communities - both in Australia and abroad - in a fight against cultural stereotypes and sexual hierarchy. The magazine's editor and some contributors told SBS about their ...

SA man calls for indigenous crisis centre : The eight premature deaths in thirteen days galvanised Mr Sansbury to spearhead an online campaign calling on the South Australian government to fund a 24-hour Aboriginal crisis centre. More than 3000 people have already signed the Change.org petition ... 日本 | 中国 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | AU-Malaysia | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase

Army chief wants more women in Australian military SYDNEY — Australia's army chief has called for the recruitment of more women, gays and ethnic minorities in the military, saying the country's changing demographics make it unsustainable not to. In a speech to the Sydney Institute, Lieutenant General ...

Figures reveal tough justice rules in NT courts : By Lisa Mosley Figures show that more than 70 per cent of all defendants in the Northern Territory in 2010-2011 were Indigenous . Law courts in the Northern Territory recorded the largest proportion of custodial sentences in the nation in 2010-11.

Mental Illness Suicide Asylum Seekers: Australia Fails Its ... : Mental illness and suicide are common in incarcerated asylum seekers in Australia . Government is failing its obligation to preserve their health.

Australia's first female Aboriginal Archdeacon congratulated by Reconciliation Australia media release ​Reconciliation Australia congratulates Biripa woman Karen Kime on her recent ordination as the first female Aboriginal archdeacon in the Anglican Church in Australia . Co-Chair Dr Tom Calma said the appointment ...

Gay Australian fathers arrested over alleged child sexual ... THE gay fathers of a six-year-old Australian boy have been arrested in Los Angeles after being indicted on child sexual exploitation charges relating to ...