Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Why so many Aboriginal kids end up in detention  - The territory's youth detention rate is six times the national average. ... Across Australia , governments regard locking up vulnerable Indigenous  ...

Is it time for indigenous people to be recognised in the Australian Constitution?  - The Australian 's Paul Kelly has called for “leadership, honesty and compromise”, and Aboriginal Liberal MP Ken Wyatt told The Australian  ...

IndigenousDads hit back at 'offensive and racist'  - Indigenous fathers have hit back at a controversial cartoon with a social media campaign sharing images of their family life. The cartoon, published in The Australian on Thursday, depicted an Aboriginal father in the outback clutching a can of beer who is unaware of his son's name.

Gurrumul Yunupingu named artist of the year at National Indigenous Music awards  - Gurrumul Yunupingu has been named artist of the year at the National ... as the first song by a predominantly Indigenous band to chart in Australia .

Indigenous artists find their voice through photography  - The exhibition is titled Over the fence: Contemporary Indigenous photography from the Corrigan Collection and presents the artists' perspectives on identity, representation, racism, the influence of religion and the exploitation of country. 

Farm animals could hold cure to childhood asthma, study says  - Roughly 400 deaths occur due to asthma each year in Australia . Indigenous Australians are nearly twice as likely to report suffering from the condition ...

Identity politics threatens the national interest  - All we can do is await guidance from indigenous cognoscenti and then be ... Paul Kelly suggests that Australia , “once famous for its straight talking, ...

Half of young people living in Outback indigenous communities carry an STI  - The study, undertaken by South Australian Health and Medical Research ... who were diagnosed at three times the rate of non- indigenous people.

Older Workers Are Actually More Comfortable With Technology  - Andy Patrizio at CIO.com has drawn attention to an arresting finding in a survey commissioned by Dropbox and first released in June. Responses from 4,073 information workers in the US, Europe, and Australia found that older workers adopted technology as quickly as their younger peers—and felt less anxiety about it.

Gay couples in Queensland to get adoption rights  -  Same-sex couples are to be allowed to adopt children in the state of ... the Australian Capital Territory in allowing adoption by singles and same-sex  ...

Married At First Sight' feature same sex couple  - Psychologist John Aitken, who appears on the show, told the Australia News Network that including a same sex couple in the show was exciting.

This principal really believes no gay students have ever gone to his school  - Ghazwa Khan, the principal of Al-Faisal college in Sydney, Australia , has claimed that no gay student has ever gone there because it was “not ...

Primate welcomes investigation into youth detention  -  The Primate of Australia, Archbishop Philip Freier, has welcomed a Royal Commission investigation into youth detention in the Northern Territory. Some 97 per cent of young people held in detention in the area are Indigenous, despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people comprising only 17 per cent of the total Northern Territory population. Archbishop Philip described this continually rising figure as “deplorable”.

I'm an Aboriginal father. I don't want my kids to see racist garbage in the media  -  Aboriginal people are pushed further into the background of this ... White Australia doesn't need to acknowledge those Aboriginal people who actually ...

Stan Grant asks after NT abuse scandal: are we still trapped by the 'white gaze'?  - Grant said Baldwin taught him to write about Indigenous Australians without softening the blow, and to write without fear of how his words would be ...

Kiwi artist Lisa Reihana adds Aboriginal stories to artwork for Venice Biennale  -  Reihana is extending the work for Venice to include Aboriginal experiences and plans to film new segments with performers in Australia this month.

Abortion talk threat to health  - A Maori reproductive health service is speaking out against an attempt to change the law so parents are notified if teenage girls seek an abortion.

Papers Past help Hawke's Bay researcher discover tipuna's voices from 150 years ago  - A Hawke's Bay man has explored historic Māori newspaper collections brought online this year in his research for the upcoming 150th ...

Radical new law needed to ensure the Smokefree 2025 goal  - This study finds that the Ministry of Health is set to fail against its 2018 interim goals for Māori and Pacific smoking. One of the authors, Jude Ball ...

Hub to draw kids back to school  - Education Minister Hekia Parata has opened a learning hub in Whanganui as part of the new Express to Success programme to help Maori get their ...

Māori home ownership achievable - This Rotorua women hopes to Equip Māori with the knowledge of the ... Statistics New Zealand data indicate that the percentage of Maori living in ...

Clark criticised over Māori rights record  -  New Zealand was one of only four out of 150 countries that refused to sign the Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, Ms Ngata said, ...

Volunteers Lose Battle to Save Lost Baby Killer Whale  - A tactical team of government officials, killer whale researchers, Maori tribe members, and others struggled to save the whale. On Wednesday, he was ...

This year's Olympics will be the most queer-friendly ever, but LGBT participation stretches back ...  - The USA alone is sending seven LGBT athletes to Rio — all women ... Germany, Canada, and New Zealand , covering sports from soccer to discus to ...