Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Warning on Surge of Older Women Becoming Homeless - Mission Australia has urged the federal government to take action to reduce the ... For older women who do not own homes outright, the pension is ...

Plan to tackle crisis for Aboriginal kids - Child Protection Minister Andrea Mitchell said the over-representation of Aboriginal children in care in Western Australia was unacceptable. Of 4658 ...

Children removed from families are at highest risk to suicide - One in nine of Western Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children have been removed from their families and it is a similar debacle in ...

James Cook University scientists say Australia colonised over 50000 years ago - Mr Ulm, who is an archaeologist, said the team determined during the year-long study that Aboriginal people may have even arrived in Australia as ...

Support for Indigenous constitutional recognition drops below 60%  - Although Indigenous recognition in the Australian constitution enjoys majority support, the referendum council has not approved a particular proposal ...

 The condition of Australia's Indigenous people is 'massively fascinating'  - After just a week in Australia , documentary film-maker Louis Theroux is surprised at how invisible the Indigenous community is. “I've been struck by ...

Oxfam report highlights native title woes in Western Australia - Native title rights are being undermined in the Kimberley region and the demand for land development is forcing Indigenous communities from their ...

Rudd's lost plan for a national museum of Indigenous Australians - Kevin Rudd had begun secret discussions to create a new national cultural institution before he was dumped as prime minister – a vision that would ...

Developing youth leaders in Wadeye - They are now looking to the future and the opportunities before them, both in their community and around Australia . Bernice Bitting, who is 20 years ...

Cash source exposes the great public-private school divide - Sydney Grammar's academic results put it very near the top of any list of Australia's best schools. Walgett's scores are substantially below the national  ...

Loneliness Survey Finds Australians Are Very, Very Lonely - According to the findings, 60 percent of Australians often feel lonely. ... But with RUOK's recent finding that suicide rates in Australia have scaled a ten ...

Video game offers new life to ancient Indigenous language - The world's first Aboriginal Australian language video game has put smiles on the faces of Indigenous children who never thought they'd see their ...

Make a curry, help those in need - So when a micro-finance non-profit organisation was looking for a way to encourage Australians to raise money for Asian families living in poverty , ...

Why I had my brother's baby' - With adoption and surrogacy proving near impossible for same sex couples, both in Australia and overseas, Ashlee felt compelled to step in and offer ...

The Government Has Divorced Itself From Responsibility on Same-Sex Marriage - The current debate around a same sex marriage plebiscite is a breathtaking ... if the right to marriage should be made available to all Australians .

Unemployed, aged, disabilities, carers - The Australia Institute (TAI) estimates that $3.77 billion or 62 percent of the 6.1 billion in savings ... As Falzon said, “ Poverty is not a personal choice.

Will this be Winston's finest hour? - At the heart of the Brexit campaign -- passionately supported by Nigel Farage's UKIP -- the closest comparable UK political party to New Zealand First, was strong rhetoric around the "deterioration" of the United Kingdom and the unrecognisable, rapid change resulting from globalisation (and the mass migration that has come with it). Notably it was the lack of control felt by ordinary people over the direction of their country that most resonated

Whose work was the inspiration for the first nuke-free country? - These visits produced spectacular protest fleets in the Auckland and Wellington harbours, when hundreds of New Zealanders —in yachts of all sizes, ...

In restive Papua , incumbents may not pin hopes so high - In restive Papua , incumbents may not pin hopes so high ... customary leaders are able to pressurize their people to vote according to his choice, and if ...

Te Reo Māori on 'life support' says Sharples - Former Māori party co-leader Sir Pita Sharples described te reo Māori as being on “life support” at a Human Rights Commission forum this month.

Maori doctors meet on marae to talk kaupapa, careers and challenges -  Maori medical students have been offered an inspiring – and sometimes daunting – glimpse into their future careers, at a hui at Papakura Marae in ...

Whai Ngata to be remembered in Maori media award. - We recognise that the Maori media play an incredible and often unsung role in the media and it hasn't been easy, an uphill battle over the years.

Input on design of Māori Land Service sought - Input is being sought into the design of the new Māori Land Service which will be established through the Te Ture Whenua Māori bill that is going ...

Tuhoronuku situation weighs heavy on ministers -  Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell doesn't believe the crown can just walk away from Ngapuhi claim negotiation body Tuhoronuku.