Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Why inequality is the policy issue to make or break governments  - OECD data suggests Australia is above the OECD average in terms of relative income poverty (14% vs 11% average) and just around the OECD ...

Why do the gay characters always die in movies?  - Based on the real-life memoir of Australian writer and activist Tim Conigrave, this Aussie film is a harsh look at the realities for a young gay couple ...

Out for Australia Mentoring Program applications now open  - National LGBTI initiative Out For Australia have launched applications for a new round of queer mentees looking for a step up in the workplace.

Australia's boom made billionaires of some but what did it do for the poor?  - The Poverty Report published in 2014 by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) reports that 2.55 million Australian residents lived below ...

Females are more pessimistic than males about economy, Mastercard survey says  - The survey also revealed that those aged under-30 years were more optimistic than their older counterparts on all five components of Mastercard's ...

17000 new age care homes worth $910 million to rise in Australia  - Thousands of older Australians are expected to benefit as the federal government builds 10,940 new residential places worth $678.3 million and funds ...

Is grandparenting becoming a trap for older women?  - Grandparents provide childcare for almost one-third of children of working parents, according to 2015 data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The Safe Schools Debate Reminds LGBT Australians Of When Our Childhood Bullying Was Ignored  - The Safe Schools debate in Parliament takes us back to the playground. Cory Bernardi, George Christensen and their supporters claim to be ...

Momentum building for a Royal Commission in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicides  -  Australian Senator Sue Lines tabled a motion urging the Federal Government to not delay in accepting the findings from the Aboriginal and Torres ...

A business success built on shifting sands  - The international market is important for Indigenous businesses, especially those whose enterprises showcase ... to this country without the cultural baggage that unfortunately still hampers a lot of black-white relations in Australia .

Indigenous financial inclusion: good for everyone  - The tragedy is that in this modern, affluent Australia , 43.1 per cent of First Australians are fully or severely financially excluded, compared to 17.2 per ...

Aboriginal Activist Gary Foley Destroyed Politicians At A Sydney Biennale Installation This Weekend  - Then, giving truth to his words, he delivered a glorious hour-long discussion monologue laying into white Australians ' treatment of Aboriginal people ...

Competitive tendering disadvantages indigenous groups  -  National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co-chair Kirstie Parker warned the lack of accounting for indigenous connections in the tendering ...

Two flags fly in harmony  - THE Aboriginal flag now flies side by side with the Australian flag on top of the Nautilus Arts Centre in Port Lincoln as part of the council's commitment ...

Gaining lifelong skills on stations  - YOUNG indigenous Territorians are returning to cattle stations in droves. ... Central Australia Elders stock agent Herbie Neville addressed the group ...

Returning RSE workers an asset to NZ industries  - Pacific Islanders participating in New Zealand's Recognised Seasonal ... The rest made up of people from Fiji, Tuvalu, Kiribati and Papua New Guinea ...

PM stands firm on Kermadec sanctuary  - Prime Minister John Key says parliament can pass whatever laws it likes as it faces a legal challenge from Maori over the Kermadec ocean sanctuary.

Global genetic study to understand anorexia calls for Kiwi study volunteers  - A landmark study is calling for New Zealanders with anorexia to take part in a genetic survey to better understand suspected links between the eating ...

Papua government to conduct review of autonomy funds  -  Papua Governor Lucas Enembe being interviewed by RNZ International in ... funds were being appropriately used to prosper the people of Papua .

New cafe focuses on youth, business and community  - After three to four years of planning, a group of young Māori business ... Manawhenua from the Auckland region, some New Zealand's sporting stars ...

New York's Met museum offers internship to AUT student  - Harrison's excited as both a Maori and New Zealander to have been placed in a department that has a large collection of taonga, and says it's great ...

Carving sign of hapu pride  - the Native Land Court, the Maori Land Court and hapu wanting to asset their distinct identity to say 'we are ahi kaa, we belong here", Dr Ellis says.

Maori bankers get career help  - Some of New Zealand's largest companies are signing on to a programme aimed at helping Maori staff move into the ranks of management.

Hoani Waititi regains Polyfest title  - Te Wharekura o Hoani Waititi Marae is back at the top of Auckland schools' kapa haka, winning this year's Polyfest Maori stage. Along the way it took ...