Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Gay couples add their voice to the marriage equality campaign in Australia  -  Same-sex marriage has now been legal in many countries around the world for over 14 years. Australia has undoubtedly fallen behind in achieving ...

Simpsons' Character Smithers to Come Out as Gay in New Episode  - After 27 seasons of not-so-subtle hints on The Simpsons, longtime Springfield resident Waylon Smithers Jr. will finally come out and reveal to viewers ...

Who speaks for Aboriginal Australia ?  - The responses to the Sydney Daily Telegraph's “discovery” that universities are acknowledging one or two facts about the British invasion of this land ...

Aboriginal diabetes plan in sight  - The Wardliparingga Aboriginal Research Unit of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute is currently developing a type two ...

How to reform primary health care to close the gap  -  Aboriginal groups need to play an active part in Aboriginal health to ensure we get ... A range of services make up the primary care system in Australia .

New Dean to lead Indigenous research and education  - The University of Adelaide has today announced the appointment of a new Dean of Indigenous Research and Education Strategy, Professor Shane ...

80% Indigenous workers won't have a comfortable retirement  - A key concern raised by the research is that only one in five Indigenous Australians , compared with one in three non- Indigenous Australians , will be ...

Hospital accused of 'incompetence or racial profiling' in Gurrumul treatment  - The hospital has a proud multicultural staff and more than 60% of patients admitted to Royal Darwin Hospital identify as Aboriginal . Claims of poor ...

Kakadu Plum Powder: Move Over Acai, Have You Tried Australia's Very Own Superfood?  - Kakadu plum (also known as gubinge, billygoat plum or murunga) is an Australian native bush fruit that grows in northern Australia and the Kimberley ...

Discovery, settlement or invasion The power of language in historical narratives  - But from the very first encounter with Indigenous peoples they amply ... Mabo, a Torres Strait Islander – Australia's second Indigenous community, who ...

Obsessing about past 'wrongs' is to miss the power of culture  - Lissant Bolton, a curator at the British Museum, puts the point like this: “In the Australian context, this means that any indigenous Australian is ...

The next frontier for football in Australia  - He was the first indigenous Australian to be selected to play for national team. Injury was to cruel his on-field contribution before the potential could be ...

Australia was invaded, not peacefully settled  - It is a calculated attack by the Australian ruling class and its cultural warriors to push back against hard-won but limited gains made by Indigenous  ...

Poor user engagement kills local apps in Indonesia : Google  - For a market like Indonesia , there are three things to consider: Build small apps for people , optimize data usage because the memory and data speed ...

Could the dingo originated in South Sulawesi in Indonesia ? Professor Paul Tacon from Griffith Uni ...  - One of the people behind this research is Professor Paul Tacon from Griffith University. He along with Dr Melanie Fillios from the University of New ...

Where exactly is the moon? Eclipse stories from Indonesia  - Dr Darwis's interdisciplinary team is helping to develop a new range of organic solar cells; in a rapidly developing country of 260 million people that is ...

96 Secondary schools to vie for Waka Ama national title  - Chief Executive of Waka Ama New Zealand , Lara Collins says, “Each year, the Waka Ama participation base keeps growing. Having been at all 15 ...

Serco to pay Department of Corrections $8 million  - Davis says Serco's contract to manage prisons in New Zealand should end immediately. “I think their contract needs to end. They need to be thrown ...

Answers needed on Maori TV move  -  Answers needed on Maori TV move. Labour MP Peeni Henare says Maori Television needs to be more upfront about its plans. The service marked its ...

Social gap between Papua and other regions still exists  - The Special Autonomy Law is also a materialisation of the highest recognition from the Indonesian Government towards Papuan people , especially ...

LGBT Community More Prone To Mental Illness And Psychological Distress  - RadioNZ reported that psychiatrists in New Zealand and Australia are now alarmed with the increasing number of LGBT members having mental ...