Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Some facts about who uses negative gearing, from the RBA  - Most Australians are not housing investors but those who are tend to be 35 years or older and from households where annual income exceeds ...

Grandfather changes career at 78 years old , becomes Australia's oldest intern  - A grandfather believes he is Australia's oldest intern after taking up a work placement at 78 years old . Grandfather-of-two, Ken Holmes, has been ...

NT government declines to attend inquiry into Indigenous funding scheme  - Labor senator Nova Peris said of the Indigenous Advancement Strategy: ... Priscilla Collins, chief executive of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice ...

Adam Goodes champions Indigenous businesses in role with Supply Nation  - Tomorrow a group of Indigenous entrepreneurs will leave Australia for Silicon Valley, all part of a concerted effort to help grow their businesses in the ...

Employment gap remains  - Ms Duncan said the report centred more on the 80 per cent of the indigenous people that live in regional and metropolitan Australia , but left out the ...

Is the Gap Closing?  - That's the name of a plan that aims to help Indigenous Australians to live as long as non- Indigenous Australians . But the report shows that it's not ...

Biggest reform to in-home aged care to affect Aboriginal elders, carers say  - Last year 70,000 Australian seniors who received federally funded care at ... Now there are claims from carers who work with Aboriginal elders that ...

The 'Silent' Killer Behind Australia's Health Crisis  - It's no secret that aboriginal Australians have survived many hardships. But a new “silent” killer is destroying aboriginal bodies and communities at an ...

Straight men may be confused for gay men: ACL  - Lyle Shelton, the head of the Australian Christian Lobby, says if Australia legalises same-sex marriage people could assume heterosexual men such ...

ACT believes existing laws adequate to prevent ' gay cure' operators  - ACT believes existing laws adequate to prevent ' gay cure' operators ... ACT Health says it is not aware of any active " gay conversion therapists" operating ... The longest-running of these programs, Sydney's Living Waters Australia , ...

Reports suggests that 1 out 7 Australian teen would become homeless  - Reports suggests that 1 out 7 Australian teen would become homeless. Up to one in seven young Australians are at risk of becoming homeless at some ... stress, while 28 percent were “extremely” or “very concerned” about suicide .

One of Australia's youngest charged with murder, 11-year- old is 'inconsolable' in prison  - One of the youngest people in Australian history to be charged with murder, an 11-year- old Perth boy is inconsolable behind bars, according to a ...

Touchpads and card groups reduce social isolation in older Australians  - Sharon (not her real name) is elderly, has reduced mobility and lives alone with only her cat for company, but a touchpad tablet allows her to connect ...

Are 2.5 million Australians in poverty and are one quarter of them children?  - As long as 2.5 million Australians live below the poverty line, and one out of every four are children ... We cannot say the fair go belongs to all," ...

Pope denounces exploitation of Mexico's indigenous people  - Pope Francis denounced the centuries-old exploitation and exclusion of Mexico's indigenous people  ...

Young New Zealand boy is caught in the cross fire as police pepper spray gang  - Police were called to an alleged stabbing on Monday in South Auckland, New Zealand , when they were met with a crowd of people from the ...

Education framework bridging schools and iwi  - Roly Fitzgerald is organising the Maori Education Framework where eight primary and secondary schools will aim to increase the way Maori  ...

An open letter to New Zealand about the flag  -  New Zealand does have a torrid past. The signing of two Treaties; the English version and the Maori version and the confusion caused by different ...

Maori Family Empathises With Shen Yun Performance  -  Maori elder Amato Akarana empathised with a Shen Yun story-dance depicting the ongoing persecution of Falun Dafa, ...

National Radio Failing to Deliver for Māori  -  New Zealand First is supporting calls for an inquiry into the level of dedicated Māori content being broadcast on state-funded radio. A 12-week audit of ...

Rare Maori photos to be auctioned in England  - Mrs Pulman emigrated to New Zealand from England in 1861, and she became fascinated by Maori culture, photographing many Maori kings.

Paul Moon to release new research on Māori language  -  New Zealand historian, Professor Paul Moon says the government needs to give more money for the Māori Language, to ensure it doesn't disappear ...

PNG makes headway on West Papua refugee registry  - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is assisting Papua New Guinea to register all West Papuan refugees in the country.

West Papuan Liberation movement opens office in Wamena  - The Movement comprises leading West Papuan political organisations, representing the indigenous people of Indonesia's Papua region at the ...