Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Culture key to indigenous education  - Br Daniel has been named a Member of the Order of Australia for his significant service to primary education, particularly in indigenous communities, ...

Exploring the best Sydney Australia sites for the whole family  - This is where you can get up close to the indigenous animals of Australia including wombats, koalas, echidnas, kangaroos, wallabies, birds and ...

Young Australians Face Worse Challenges Than Their Parents Says Report  - The latest update to FYA's report Renewing Australia's Promise explores the ... According to the report, government spending on older Australians has ...

Advocacy groups welcome funding pledge to stop elder abuse  - I'd like to see a massive increase in pro-bono legal services for older people.” Australia's Law reform commission and the NSW government are ...

No Australian is truly free No Australian is truly free  - Terra nullius holds Australia in its grip. Australia clings to the idea of settlement while Indigenous people know the reality of invasion. Australia opened ...

No evidence of homeless NT exodus: Barnett  - The Northern Territory chief minister's call for Western Australia to "take back" hundreds of homeless Aboriginal people who have moved to Darwin is ...

White teachers get help to overcome their anxiety about teaching Indigenous issues  - Most teachers are a little tentative about engaging with this space," said Peter Anderson, the chair of the Australian Indigenous Lecturers in Initial ...

Darwin's homeless problems spark dispute between NT and WA Governments  - A dispute has broken out between the West Australian and Northern Territory Governments over the movement of Aboriginal people ...

UK invasion unintended, but had lasting effects nonetheless  - said were caused by convicts stealing food from the indigenous people. ... David Hill is author of 1788, The Making of Australia and The Great Race, ...

Nation building on Indigenous recognition needs a mature debate  -  Labor leader Bill Shorten is accused of jinxing the "yes" case for a referendum on whether the Australian constitution should recognise Indigenous  ...

Affordable' housing arguments will never address chronic and acute homelessness  - In 2012, the Australian Council of Social Services report, Poverty in Australia , estimated 2,265,000 live below the Henderson Poverty Line – 12.5 per ...

Many Australians Don't Have Access to Critical Social Services  - Far too many people are living in poverty in Australia . As well as planning for the long term to improve our social security system, we need to act now ...

Queensland to standardise sex consent laws and finally end gay discrimination  - It should be noted that during the 1989 election, the National Party Premier of the time, Russell Cooper, said that the Australia Labor Party's policy of ...

Muslim psychologist Hanan Dover links gays with 'thieves, killers'  - The Australian Psychological Society opposes any form of mental health practice that treats homosexuality as a disorder or seeks to change a ...

Australia Boots Iranian Cleric Who Says Gays Must Die  - While he was there, local media reported his anti- gay speeches. On Tuesday night, he left Australia abruptly. The Australian government announced ...

Darren Hayes Articulates For Malcolm Turnbull Average Australian's Attitude To Plebiscite  - I wish I could use my good fortune and the attention my career has given me to be an example of hope for young LGBT Australian youth. Instead, the ...

Holy Guacamole! People In New Zealand Are Stealing Avocados  - They've been called “green gold.“ What are these mysterious gems? They're avocados. And New Zealanders are resorting to theft to get hold of them.

Organ donation: Ours to give  - Seven hundred people are on the waiting list for new kidneys. ... to the New Zealand Transport Agency via an arbitrary and unrelated licensing system.

Over 1000 detained in Papua for protesting  - More than 1,000 West Papuans participating in a demonstration calling for independence in Indonesia's Papua region were briefly detained on ...

Maori ticket policy not racist: watchdog  - A directive telling South Auckland police officers to not give tickets to unlicensed Maori drivers was badly worded, but not discriminatory, the police ...

Te Whare Hukahuka to build next generation  - Te Whare Hukahuka to build next generation of Māori governance leaders. Education enterprise Te Whare Hukahuka is calling for applications for its ...

Stories and experiences shared during Taranaki's peace hikoi  - She said as she listened to Judd talk about how he used to think and feel about Maori people, she started to look at her own values and opinions.

Govt told schools need LGBT guidelines  - The school's acting principal, Jo Chamberlain, said like other New Zealand schools the college was trying to get to grips with transgender issues and it ...

Orlando shooting is the latest chapter in the global fight for LGBT rights  - For every advance in LGBT rights that is made in one part of the world, ... for the crime include the pope and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.