Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Can you afford to live to 1000? - As human lifespans rise rapidly over the coming decades, the youngest Aussies will have to think about making their money last beyond 100, or even 120, or perhaps much longer. It’s a daunting prospect for those who can’t even afford to get into the property market like their parents and grandparents did.

Not another stolen generation - At the time of Kevin Rudd's 2008 apology to the Stolen Generations, indigenous children were seven times likelier than other Australian children to be ...

How Indigenous Peoples can manage their own lands and communities - Some of the Canadian Guardians have been inspired by Indigenous stewardship programs in Australia . The Australian government is investing the ...

What is language extinction and why should we care? - A language becomes extinct when its last native speaker dies, and it's ... of Queensland, specialising in Indigenous Australian languages explained to ...

Aboriginal man's story of Maralinga nuclear bomb survival told with virtual reality - of cultures, state-of-the-art 3D film technology is bringing an Aboriginal man's unique tale of nuclear bomb survival to audiences across Australia .

Self-reliant' men more likely to have suicidal thoughts -  Suicides as a proportion of total deaths in Australia hit a 10-year high in 2015, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows. Last year 3027 ...

Labor caucus to kill gay marriage plebiscite until at least 2019 -  Australia has never held a national opinion poll to judge anyone else's relationship, so people are legitimately asking why this should be inflicted on ...

Ads against same-sex marriage caused distress to LGBTI people - Ads against same-sex marriage caused distress to LGBTI people ... Its authors are researchers at Australia's University of Queensland and Victoria ...

indigenous children have a right to safety - Such arguments risk perpetuating the gaps in social outcomes between the most disadvantaged indigenous Australians and other Australians .

Racist? Mate, Australia was born racist - At our birth as a nation, indigenous people were not part of the conversation. At best, they were treated as a nuisance. At worst ... Since writing about ...

How Australian Satirists Are Undermining White Supremacist Patriarchy - In a conversation about constitutional recognition, Pickering's character adopts the breezy ignorance of white Australia about Aboriginal affairs.

Australia must act now to prevent a new Stolen Generation tragedy - Kevin Rudd turns to the Indigenous people in the House of Representatives chamber in February 2008 to acknowledge them after giving his apology ...

There is no Aboriginal disadvantage. Our culture is our advantage, and all Australians can share it - Sharing Indigenous culture without being worthy or gloomy is easy. Our resilience, our harmony with country and the joy of the corroboree can heal ...

Fewer young Australians drinking alcohol excessively: research - Young Australians are increasingly choosing to abstain from drinking alcohol, while older Australians make up the ...

My Grandmother's Lingo: Australian TV develops interactive game to help save Aboriginal language -  Australia's national public television network SBS is trying to help save a dying Aboriginal language by launching an interactive game experience on ...

Marvel Is Finally Giving America Chavez Her Own Comic Series - It's been a bad year for LGBT character representation for Marvel, with the end of ... Have you subscribed to Kotaku Australia's email newsletter?

Growing up Maori in NZ: My daily experience of racism at school, playing rugby, at University and ... - I was 9 and it was the middle of religious education at our state primary school when a lady told our class that God didn't love the Tuhoe people ...

Stage set for Te Matawai innovation - A member of the new Maori language body Te Matawai says the will is there for real innovation is strengthening and spreading te reo Maori .

Papua cops get 21 days in jail after teen's death - Papua Police's ethical court found five policemen who were members of the Mobile Brigade ... “ Papuan people's hearts have hardened like a stone.

LGBT community calls for change in conservative Tonga - For the first time, Tonga's homosexual and transgender community will call on government leaders to revise legislation in order to protect LGBTI ...

Children's Commissioner: UN report must be taken seriously - Another recurring theme in the UN's report was the disproportionately poor outcomes for Maori children. New Zealand's dismal record in this area is ...

Child poverty in NZ a source of deep concern: UNICEF - It calls for “urgent measures to address disparities in access to education, health services and a minimum standard of living for Maori and Pasifika ...

Keystone Del in a class of his own - While stablemate and frontrunner Maori Time was able to set the pace as he pleased out front in the True Roman Trotters Free For All, returning guns ...

Iwi of Origin, largest in its history - Auckland is home to the largest Māori population in NZ, however Ropati says for many urban Māori they don't know where they come from. As much ...