Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Australia places 21st in ranking of best and worst countries to be a girl  - Save the Children spokesperson Sarah Carter said Australia has a long way to go when it comes to having equal representation of men and women at ...

Why Australia's Left-Wing Leaders Are Fighting A Same-Sex Marriage ... - The Australia Labor Party planned to block Tuesday a same-sex marriage referendum proposed by Prime Minister Malcom Turnball, claiming that the ...

Why Australia blocked a vote on same-sex marriage - A Gallup poll shows that 61 percent of Australians support same-sex marriage, but some argue that a public, non-binding vote on the issue would be ...

Australia gets pavilion inspired by puja pandal - The roof was made by Adivasis in Maharashtra. Australia also has indigenous cultures that have some similarities with ours. This was a way to revive ...

All-female team tackles smoking stats - Shocked by the number of expectant Aboriginal mothers puffing on ... killer” in Australia and the prevalence is “significantly higher” in the indigenous  ...

Coalition urged to regulate Indigenous hunting of endangered animals - Captured sea turtles in a photo supplied to Australian MP Warren Entsch by Colin Riddell, a conservationist from a group called Animal Coalition.

Marriage Equality Is Not Coming to Australia Anytime Soon - Labor Party leader Bill Shorten — as well as a majority of Australians , ... it would be too costly and create an acrimonious climate for LGBT Australians .

The silent crisis of homeless older women - And increasingly, it's affecting older women. ... of housing on homelessness for older women, noting a 19% increase in the number of older Australians  ...

How three suicide survivors turned their lives around - Kim Borrowdale, deputy CEO of Suicide Prevention Australia , says education and compassion are needed to halt the toll. "There are persistent ...

Indigenous hunters cruel to sealife, says Warren Entsch - Liberal MP Warren Entsch has questioned why Australia has been so quick to oppose Japanese whaling but not paid the same attention to the plight ...

Relative Of Dead Aboriginal Teen Takes Her Own Life At Memorial Site - Western Australia has long been rocked by high rates of Indigenous suicide. In the small town of Leonora, next to Kalgoorlie, there have been at least ...

Gender inequality is a problem, say 69% of young Australian women - Gender inequality is a problem, say 69% of young Australian women .... Fourteen individuals – 2% of the total – identified as Aboriginal Australian  ...

Funeral, after funeral, after funeral' - More than 150 Aboriginal people took their lives in 2015, the highest figure ever recorded nationally. Suicide ... Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion and Assistant Minister for Health Ken Wyatt, an indigenous man from Western Australia .

Australian Senate joins push to repatriate Indigenous artefacts from British Museum - Rodney Kelly, who is a descendant of the Gweagal warrior Cooman who was shot by Captain James Cook's men in 1770. He is campaigning for his ...

Shock blow for tragic teen's family - The Goldfields is among many Australian regions plagued by suicides and former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner ...

Ice use 'becoming intergenerational' in Indigenous communities, conference in Adelaide to hear - Ice use 'becoming intergenerational' in Indigenous communities, ... according to the director of South Australia's Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council.

Guaranteed fast-food hours 'heaps better for planning' - Restaurant Brands employs about 4000 people at 181 fast-food restaurants in New Zealand . The new agreement guarantees both hours and fixed ...

Principals drill into charter school pick - Hawke's Bay principals are questioning why a partnership school for Maori boys is being set up in Napier without consultation or warning. Te Aratika ...

Fox reminds Govt of United Nations child poverty promise -  Māori Party co-leader Marama Fox says the Governments needs to be reminded about its promise to end child poverty in New Zealand by 2030.

Homelessness Inquiry final report released -  Māori and Pasifika communities are acknowledged as being particularly affected by homelessness, with research by the University of Otago showing ...

Communities want Reduction in Accessibility of Sugary Drinks - As part of this awareness day, Hāpai Te Hauora, a national Māori community voice on physical activity and nutrition, are calling for regional and ...

Unsuccessful Maori council candidates feel the sting of controversial Maori ward debate - Backlash from New Plymouth's failed Maori ward push is one of the factors keeping Maori out of Taranaki councils, an unsuccessful mayoral candidate ...

No Māori councillors, no surprise for iwi leader - 

Top 5 things to do around Taupo's great lake - Get up close to one of New Zealand's most extraordinary artworks, the Mine Bay Maori Rock Carvings, towering 14m above the lake and accessible ...