Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

How Australia is screwing East Timor  -  Australia wants to keep in place arrangements that allow Australian ... They also stop the oil being piped to East Timor, allowing Australia to be the sole .... the country's poverty has been exacerbated by an unprecedented drought, ...

Where the parties stand on LGBTI representation and engagement  - the rights of LGBTI Australians have a new champion, and lesbian, gay , transgender and intersex Australians can feel safer, more secure and more ...

Gay marriage to be legalised if opposition Labour win Australia poll  -  Gay Australians could be given the chance to enter into same-sex marriages within months if the opposition Labor Party wins this Saturday's general ...

Record number of LGBTI candidates running in 2016 federal election  - A record number of LGBTI Australians are running in the 2016 federal ... gay and lesbian parliamentarians do work productively across party lines to ...

Australia's drinking quantity decreases but quality increases  - Perceptions of quality and value change as people age and emma data shows that older people are more likely to believe that Australian wine is ...

Brexit: victory for older voters but disaster for economy  - There was an equally pronounced ethnic divide. In sum, this was a victory — a Pyrrhic victory in economic terms — for older , whiter English and Welsh ...

Why Demographics Spell Disaster for Australia  - In the land of Have Nots, the pyramid is becoming inverted — a declining base supports a growing apex of older (economically unproductive) citizens.

Painting Koori dreamtime  - An art exhibition of Indigenous paintings from primary and secondary students in a program which aims to instil respect for Koori culture has opened at ...

5 Cruelest Crimes Against LGBT Folks  - Pride Parade NYC 2016 will pay a tribute to the victims of the Pulse gay nightclub. The members of the LGBT community who have survived the ...

The world's most remote community? - Yet in the tiny indigenous Australian community of Wanarn in the middle of this desert, one architect has shown how deep consultation with a local ...

Risks, ethics and consent: Australia shouldn't become the world's nuclear wasteland - Dry nuclear fuel casks similar to those Australia would use to store nuclear waste ... Indigenous Australians have successfully opposed for 20 years an ...

Aboriginal community of Yuelamu fears town's only water supply may run dry  - A remote Indigenous community in Central Australia fears a bore they have been relying on may run dry, after an outbreak of toxic blue-green algae ...

Fortified bread eliminates gap between Indigenous and non- Indigenous babies born with neural ... - The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare said neural tube defects had fallen more than 74 per cent in Indigenous babies since the move.

Ancient 'Deep Skull' From Borneo Not Related to Indigenous Australians  - The first inhabitants in Borneo in Southeast Asia may not actually be related to Indigenous or Aboriginal Australians , according to a study published on ...

Ancient 'Deep Skull' Evidence Suggest Early Aborigines Were Not the First Settlers in the Pacific  - The 37,000-year-old skull was not related to Aboriginal Australians , researchers found. The ancient cranium fragments nicknamed "Deep Skull" by ...

Indigenous families putting bashers ahead of victims: Jacinta Price  -  Indigenous Australians must take responsibility for high levels of violence within their communities rather than looking for “constitutional recognition or ...

Unity will sweeten trade prospects  -  Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell says there are great ... He's just back from leading a Maori trade mission to Korea and Japan, following ...

LGBT Rights and Protections Are Scarce in Constitutions Around the World, UCLA Study Finds  - Five countries' constitutions provide protections solely based on sexual orientation — Mexico, New Zealand , Portugal, South Africa and Sweden.

PNG Government plans to impose curfew at University campuses - A curfew needs to be imposed on campuses and strict controls must be in place to ensure that only students, staff and people with a legitimate reason ...

West Papuans in the driving seat, says PNG ambassador  - He said one of the salient points that he and the other ambassadors picked up during the visit was that local people in Papua are fed up with outside ...

Wai bottom lines raise doubt on good faith  -  Maori researchers are up in arms over a push by government officials to establish negotiating positions denying Treaty of Waitangi rights in water.

Maori Party co leader, Marama Fox on Paakiwaha  -  Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox, who spoke to the Gisborne rally said it's important now to look at ways to stop the same thing happening to other ...

Maori scholars chart course for US  - Nga Pae co-director Jacinta Ruru says they will join an ever-growing list of Maori who have shared their indigenous knowledge and experiences with 

Brexit raises racism fears  - Ella Henry from Auckland University of Technology's school of Maori development says as a small economy New Zealand is vulnerable to the sort of ...