Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

When Too Much Democracy is a Bad Thing - We on the correct side of the debate here call it “marriage equality,” rather than “ gay marriage,” to underscore that it is a human rights issue and ...

Australia does not have a welfare problem. We have a poverty problem - It's time we stopped disguising market failure as a personal failure to participate in the market. For this is where we are starting again, with the current ...

Indigenous pastoral enterprise looks to diversify and grow - He also flagged horticulture and aquaculture, and a move more into southern Australia , as possibilities for NIPE, due to the type of indigenous -held ...

Bottom up' pathway to Aboriginal health and wellbeing - There is an urgent need to do more to break the cycle of intergenerational disadvantage, says Central Australian Aboriginal Congress Aboriginal ...

Ear disease wrecked T's life. Sadly, he's not alone in Indigenous Australia -  Australia has horrific statistics on ear disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and the best way to explain this is through one of my patient's ...

Clinton Pryor Walks across Australia to Protest Forced Closures of Aboriginal Communities - In 2015, the Australian government passed legislation intending to ... to raise awareness of the increased injustice Aboriginal communities are facing.

To move forward on reconciliation, Australia must recognise it has a race relations problem - We know a lot about what Australia's non- Indigenous population thinks of Indigenous people, but not much is known about what Indigenous people ...

Playing Russian Roulette with LGBT Rights in Australia - The Australian government wants people to “have their say” on same-sex marriage. It is planning a plebiscite on February 11, 2017 that will ask voters, ...

This is what happens when you ignore the 'do not climb' signs at Uluru - Despite signs asking people not to walk over the site out of respect for the Indigenous Anangu people (the area's traditional owners), the men ...

Australian Indigenous road fatalities as bad as sub-Saharan Africa -  Australian Indigenous road fatalities as bad as sub-Saharan Africa ... The rate of Indigenous road deaths in Australia ranges from 20 to 25 per 100,000 ...

That super diverse lamb ad? Some people reckon it's discriminatory. - That ad faced criticism about its insensitivity to Australia's Indigenous people, given it depicted a military operation taking place on the day they were ...

Indigenous people respond to dummies who got stuck on Uluru - Three 23-year-old men have been rescued by emergency services after getting stuck on the sacred site of Uluru in the Northern Territory, Australia .

Australia's Aboriginal people heading into the next "wicked" land battle - Nearly a quarter of a century after Australia's Aboriginal people won the legal right to make claims on their “country,” they are fighting a ...

What It's Like When A Family Member Attempts Suicide - The disbelief when my brother has nearly fallen from the tightrope between life and death and that system simply hasn't shown up to catch him. The pit ...

How old is too old to have a child? - The median age for Australian mothers is 30.8 years, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. However, the commonality of older mothers is ...

How the same-sex marriage plebiscite discriminates against intersex Australians - The same-sex marriage plebiscite's current wording stands to exclude a ... 12 per cent of respondents are legally recognised as married in Australia .

Australian man doesn't want recognition for helping homeless Kiwi woman - Daniel Roose helps a homeless stranger get back to her family in New Zealand . ... " People don't become homeless because their bored or lazy.

New Zealand resurgence shows the way for Australia - Where Australia is locked into futile ideological conflicts, New Zealand is ... The focus is people and making lives better, not promoting ideology.

Matt Vickers: 'Vile' to use assisted death of a 17-year-old as an argument against euthanasia - Palliative sedation is legal in New Zealand by virtue of it being in a legal grey ... pro-assisted dying campaigners in New Zealand to respond to the case. ... or otherwise is irrelevant, as is the lack of support from people like Jansen.

Peter Jackson's hi-tech plans for Wellington's Matiu Island tourism - Sir Peter Jackson looks set to work on a joint tourism project with the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust to digitally tell the Maori history of ...

Sanctuary subject to international law obligations - In the discussion of the Kermadecs Sanctuary proposal, Maori and others are overlooking that any rights to fish are explicitly conditional on a binding ...

Smith pushed to the sideline as English takes over Kermadec talks with Maori - Environment Minister Nick Smith has effectively announced his own demotion, saying Deputy Prime Minister Bill English will now lead talks with Maori  ...

West Papua rally: 'We want to be free people !' -  People of West Papua are calling on the United Nations to support their fundamental right to self-determination and a resolution for an internationally ...

How the UN Failed West Papua - intimidation by Indonesian authorities in West Papua , Wainggai will once again embark on a controversial journey to seek justice for his people .