Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Indigenous Australian children struggle in foster care - One in three Aboriginal children in Australia is in foster care or out-of-home support. Indigenous people make up just three percent of the population.

Aboriginal man's brilliant response to racism - Perth man Jarred Wall was having lunch with a friend in Fremantle when he heard two elderly ladies talking about Aboriginal people.

Distasteful conversation' gets perfect response from Indigenous Australian - An Indigenous Australian's response to two ladies' “distasteful conversation” about his people at a Perth cafe has gone viral. Aboriginal man Jarred ...

Leah Purcell weaves Indigenous Australia into classic tale - Purcell is getting ready to perform in her radical rewrite of the Henry Lawson short story The Drover's Wife, retooled with strong Indigenous emphasis ...

Why Everyone is Hating on the Show's Gay Couple? - Married at First Sight Australia , which was going pretty well with the audience, now seems to be engulfed in controversy. The show included same-sex  ...

Archbishop: Aussie church may have to accept gay marriage, but not as 'holy matrimony' - Archbishop Philip Freier wrote the letter to the church because of the public debate that would occur over the issue of same-sex marriage if parliament authorized a nationwide "plebiscite vote" on the issue.

Church demands public cash to fight for no vote in gay marriage referendum - Church leaders in Australia have clashed with the country's prime minister over an alleged pledge for funding in the upcoming referendum on same  ...

Strong response to discussion on domestic violence initiatives - One of the key initiatives proposed to reduce domestic violence in South Australia – a disclosure scheme – has been viewed in operation by ...

Former PM Howard on a treaty: 'Appalled' or 'appalling'? - Former PM John Howard's recent comments warning against a treaty with Indigenous Australians , summons the politician who was unceremoniously ...

Massive duplication of mental health services in Indigenous communities, WA committee hears - The Education and Health Standing Committee is examining Aboriginal youth suicides in Western Australia . It has travelled around the state hearing ...

Indigenous opportunity sprouts from desert discovery -  Indigenous Australians have collected spinifex for tens of thousands of years. Today, Mr Saltmere and his workers use shovels and hoes to harvest the ...

The first Indigenous Australian to win a Paralympic gold medal - During an era of segregation, the family lived among a community of Indigenous families in caravans around a converted school house at Kiah, before ...

Noel Pearson's Uncle Leads The Fight To Recover 'Stolen Wages' - Over 300 Indigenous Australians have put forward a class action to recover years' worth of unpaid labour have stockmen and domestic workers.

Specialists declare war on ear diseases affecting indigenous kids - Brisbane-based ENT surgeon Chris Perry, president of the Australian ... and its educational effects and to hear from Australia's only indigenous ENT ...

The most unpronounceable Aussie towns - THIS wide brown land has many influences particularly when it comes to place names and many of them with native Australian languages.

Guy's Bold Note To Women Having Racist Conversation In Café Is Going Viral - The offensive conversation focused on Aboriginal Australians , and according to Jarred, terms like 'assimilation' were used in a casual, offhand manner ...

More money, more places' for homeless - There has been a rise in the time it takes to find state housing for people living ... The government said Housing New Zealand had on average 15 new ...

Conscientious objection & dissent' - New Zealand First World War study - Comprehensive lists of New Zealanders who opposed conscription in the Great War have been compiled for the first time, New Zealand Government ...

When People Ate People , A Strange Disease Emerged - Most of the world didn't know anyone lived in the highlands of Papua New Guinea until the 1930s, when Australian gold prospectors surveying the ...

Papua New Guinea children suffer abuse and violence at alarming rates, report finds - Seventy per cent of children in Papua New Guinea suffer physical abuse and 50 ... "Often people only think about the immediate emotional or physical ...

Crown perpetuates violence against Maori over Waitara land - The Taranaki Maori Women's Network is holding a hikoi in the Taranaki township next week to call for the Pekapeka Block to its rightful owners.

Community leaders concerned over gang activity - According to Statistics New Zealand , crime rates for assaults in Rotorua are rising. In June, there were 105 assaults. Within a month, it rose by another ...

Witi Ihimaera to write music drama about the Waikato River - Opera and kapa haka will come together in a new music drama from acclaimed Māori writer Witi Ihimaera, composer Janet Jennings, Tom Roa of ...

Māori representation treated with caution -  Māori representation has become a virtual no-go area for those vying for ... What Māori want is a true partnership and it has never happened in New  ...