Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

'The most hurtful argument in the marriage equality debate...': Penny Wong  - Labor frontbencher Penny Wong is used to hearing arguments against same-sex marriage. But for Australia's most prominent gay politician - one hurts ...

Sydney Is Australia's Most 'Unequal Major City'  - Inequality not only challenges the fair go; it also makes it harder for a child born into poverty to make it into the middle class. At a local level, we also ...

More 'young, educated, broke' Australian students 'seek arrangements' with sugar daddies  - A growing number of "young, educated and broke" Australian students are signing up to be "sugar babies" for wealthy older men who help cover the ...

Artists Rally Against Racist Abuse Aimed At Indigenous Rapper Briggs  - Unfortunately for those of us who think that supporting indigenous Australians and being sensitive to their history of oppression is part of being a good ...

David Morrison warns Australia against complacency on domestic violence  - Morrison appeared on ABC's Q&A program on Monday night along with Guardian Australia's Indigenous editor, Stan Grant; director of emergency at St ...

Suicide Squad' Real-Life Harley Quinn Cries Like Crazy Over a Bat; Find Out Why Here  - Harley Quinn Smith is emotional after receiving the bat Margot Robbie used for the movie “ Suicide Squad.” Harley is seen crying tears of joy in a ...

An Interactive Digital Archive Helps Preserve Traditional Australian Aboriginal Literature  - The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages project began with a commitment to develop a digital archive to support and enhance Australian  ...

As an Aboriginal woman, I've learned that education is essential to our freedom  - We need a radical change to the education system if we want truth, justice and reconciliation for Australia , says @IndigenousX host Sharon Davis.

Ballarat men dress up in Aboriginal black face, accused of being racists  - A Respected Ballarat Aboriginal elder has condemned two young men for dressing up in black face as indigenous Australians for an 'Aussie Icon' ...

Backlash as party-goers dress in blackface  - at the same party who appears to be dressed as 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist, former Australian of the Year and Aboriginal woman, Cathy Freeman.

A proposed new flag that everyone's talking about … but what do Aboriginal people think about it?  - John submitted an Aboriginal design which replaced the Union Jack with a dot painting from Aborigines in central Australia . He says this is “red and ...

Closing in on a progressive cultural Australia  - Writing this on Australia Day, I've just heard that artist Tracey Moffatt has ... Aboriginal people being defined as ' Australian ', particularly on Australia  ...

Another record year for immigrants, tourists  -  New Zealanders also took a record number of trips overseas for a break in 2015, mostly to Australia. People wanting to become a New Zealand  ...

Second-rate' meals served to elderly  - Elderly people in Otago and Southland are being served food that is not fit for consumption, a Meals on Wheels volunteer says. In mid-January, the ...

Exodus to New Zealand : Kiwis fleeing back home, joined by Australians  - More people are moving to New Zealand from Australia instead of the other way around for the first time in decades as Kiwis return to a buoyant ...

30pc of Kiwis deported from Australia have reoffended - some of them sexually  - That was the point when Australia began sending back New Zealand ... "We have hundreds of these people coming to New Zealand , and it's of great ...

Don't forget, digital means people too - However, companies can adopt a people -first approach that will allow them to create new business models that drive digital disruption,” Daugherty ...

New Zealand is more popular than ever for expats, new data shows  - More people are visiting New Zealand than ever before and those choosing to live and work in the country are led by Indians, Australians and Chinese ...

I met the ghost of my Maori great-grandfather on a wild and lonely track  - I met my Maori great-grandfather Joe on a recent trip to New Zealand . Not in the flesh; he died long ago. But if, as Thoreau said, your ancestors “leave ...

Can we really trust those behind the TPP?  - In 1840, British officials came to New Zealand with the best of ... But to the missionaries, Britain had a moral duty to rescue Maori from the ...

Villagers starve as PNG drought relief stalls  - Poor logistical planning has been blamed for relief supplies not reaching starving people in drought-affected parts of Papua New Guinea.

Why 70 per cent of Papua New Guinea's women will be raped in their lifetime  - An estimated 70 percent of women in the nation of seven million people experience rape or assault in their lifetime. The nation's grim statistics can be ...

Queensland researchers work to rebuild fish farming industry in Papua New Guinea  - While most people may not jump at the thought right now, for Papua New Guinea those crustaceans could be a huge money-maker. Australian ...

Maori representation within health workforce a 'work in progress'  -  Maori make up only 3 per cent of the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board's workforce, despite making up 12 per cent of the district's population .