Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Shocking images of police shooting Aboriginal man swarm social media - social media as Dennis John "DJ" Doolan is in a critical but stable condition after being shot by police in Cowra, Australia , on Wednesday afternoon.

Parrtjima festival: high-tech outback showcase or Aboriginal Disneyland? - A Festival in Light is billed as the world's first Indigenous festival of light as well as Australia's largest light installation – but it hasn't come ...

Racial tensions erupt in Cowra after police officer shot an Aboriginal man - Dennis John 'DJ' Doolan, 32, is recovering at Orange Hospital in Central West NSW after he was shot by police shortly after noon on Wednesday. About 50 Aboriginal relatives of Mr Doolan rushed to the scene on Wednesday and began shouting 'this is not America' and 'black lives matter' at police.

Aboriginal Population Has More? - A new study has recently been conducted to identify the status of Hepatitis C treatment in Australia in which it has been found that the rate of the ...

Obesity in Australia to worsen in next decade - Importantly, Ass Prof Hayes said the modelling highlights that contrary to popular belief it's young people who gain more weight each year than older  ...

The Internet is laughing at South Australia's power problems - The Internet is laughing at South Australia's power problems ... Fierce storms left the entire state of South Australia without power last night, causing ... is by cutting welfare and pushing them further and deeper into unending poverty .

Anti-smoking pill the focus of inquest after numerous suicides - Brisbane coroner John Hutton yesterday opened the first Australian inquest investigating the possible link between Champix and suicide , following the ...

I Went To An Anti-Marriage Equality Book Launch And Had A Very Strange Night - On Tuesday night, two of Australia's most notorious opponents to marriage ... The ACL is co-sponsoring the launch, along with the Australian Family .... Bill Shorten and others, who say an ugly plebiscite debate will hurt LGBT youth.

Teen cowgirl set to make Australian history - Brittany is the first indigenous female in Australia to be invited to compete in the National Rodeo Council of Australia's National Rodeo Final. Brittany ...

Married At First Sight is welcoming its first same-sex couple, thanks to New Zealand - "In Australia [ same-sex marriage] is not something that's been legalised whereas in New Zealand it's very progressive and that's why we brought them ...

Australians Back Gay Marriage But Not Referendum Plan - A majority of Australians support gay marriage, an opinion poll on Wednesday showed, but they do not back the ...

New study finds homophobia insport continues to be a majorproblem - Despite a number of initiatives both in Australia and around the world, and despite an increasing number of openly gay athletes at this year's Olympic ...

24 Ways to Say You're Gay at Glitter Festival - I believe we are lucky and Australia will always be a great place to live. I would ... Australian playwright Wayne Tunks's play 37 Ways to Say I'm Gay .

How a dog 'saved' one suicidal man - I watched Marines die," he said. "And really, I wasn't angry that God took them, but that he didn't take me. I almost would have preferred to be in a box with a flag on it. How do I go home, standing on two feet? There's a term for it: survivor's guilt. And it's very common. I have an ongoing feeling of never having done enough. I wasn't afraid to die. The true problem is that I was afraid to live."

Australia leading world in hepatitis C treatment; but disease more prevalent in Aboriginal people - More people are on track to be cured of hepatitis C in Australia this year than over the past two decades combined, new research has shown.

Leading consumer rights advocate to highlight issues facing Aboriginal people with disability - Leading consumer rights advocate to highlight issues facing Aboriginal ... the capacity of individuals and communities across Aboriginal Australia .”.

Raukura behind persuasive teaching style - NZEI Te Riu Roa has acknowledged the contribution made to teaching and unionism over the past 40 years by Waitara East resource teacher of Maori  ...

Maori Remain Marginalized in New Zealand Society and Government - A recent report showed that white New Zealanders were more likely to be given a warning by police officers for minor crimes than indigenous Maori , ...

Lobby group opposes ` Maori favouritism' - He's citing proposed changes to the Resource Management Act, which would give Maori greater involvement in planning processes, as an example of ...

Brown lauds family and Maori in valedictory speech - An emotional Len Brown has made his valedictory speech saying his family had survived a lot during his six years at the helm of Auckland. After a long ...

School exclusion path to prison - A Maori criminologist says many of the young Maori women who end up in prison have been denied a human right to an education because of zero ...

Hong Kong Airlines brings Māori culture home - The online campaign, titled “Learn Māori Get Tickets”, has been launched on its Facebook page which is designed to make travelling to New Zealand ...

A new precedent for hapū settlements? - In one case earlier this week, insults were hurled between the Māori Party and New Zealand First, after New Zealand First pulled its support for two of ...

Solomon Islands reiterates its right to bring claims of human rights abuses in West Papua to the UN - fellow UN member states and moral leaders from civil societies illustrating a lack of protection of human rights of Melanesian people of West Papua .