Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Fremantle's Australia Day will prove to be a history defining moment - Fremantle's Australia Day will prove to be a history defining moment ... Fremantle council has created a shitstorm by pushing back its Australia Day ... wounds of the past when it comes to the abhorrent treatment of Aboriginal people.

Racism is a reality, not just reality TV - It will reveal Aboriginal Australia in all its beauty, hope, culture, history, ... reminder that racism particularly for Aboriginal Australians is still present in ...

Don't tell us what to do from your government jobs' - An indigenous leader involved in Fremantle council's decision to move its Australia Day celebrations has hit back at former West Australian of the Year ...

New Indigenous language and music centre -  Indigenous Australian languages and music will be taught and researched at a new national centre at the University of Adelaide. The National Centre ...

Meteorite ' older than Earth' recovered - SCIENTISTS have recovered a freshly fallen meteorite believed to be 4.56 billion years old from a farm north east of Perth, making it older than the ...

Millennials should start paying their dues instead of blaming older Australians - Yet another "influential think tank", the Grattan Institute, has jumped on the senior-bashing bandwagon, calling for the removal of tax breaks for older  ...

First comprehensive picture of defence suicides to emerge - But the release is prompting renewed calls for better understanding of mental health in Australia's armed forces. The Australian Institute of Health and ...

Australian musician pens song to honour young LGBT suicide victim - An Australian singer-songwriter has released a charity song to honour the memory of a young LGBT teenager who took his own life. Jack Colwell is ...

I'm scared of Aboriginal people': First Contact reveals prejudices - The SBS reality show takes six apparently well-known Australians on a journey into indigenous Australia , with often confronting results. Former Miss ...

Whatever you call it, Australia Day is our most divisive day - Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day. Whatever you call it, January 26 is either seen as a day for non-indigenous Australians to celebrate the founding of Australia or for Aboriginal people to mourn dispossession and slaughter. Australia is probably the only western nation in the world that continues to celebrate its foundation on a day which marks the beginning of an invasion by colonists who attempted to eradicate a country’s true inhabitants.

How Australia is failing its indigenous people -  Australia's economy has been growing for 25 years, the country is deemed one of the happiest in the world. But one group is not profiting from this ...

Victorian Government backs down on decision to move teens to Barwon Prison - The Victorian Government has backed down on its plan to transfer Indigenous teenagers involved in recent riots at a youth detention centre to a maximum-security prison. The settlement came on the eve of an urgent Supreme Court case brought by the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service to stop teenage inmates being moved to Barwon Prison near Geelong.   

Salvation Army announces support for Safe Schools - After a chequered past with LGBT issues, The Salvation Army has ... likes of the Australian Christian Lobby and far right groups for its teachings about ...

13-year-old boy took his own life 'after years of homophobic bullying' - Responding to the news of the young teen's suicide, Micah Scott, CEO of Australian LGBT youth support group Minus18, said it “isn't an isolated ...

Australia boy's death reignites focus on LGBT bullying - He ignored the taunts as best he could. His favourite saying was "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me". But a month ago, Tyrone was involved in a violent clash - allegedly with another student - outside school. According to his mother, Tyrone required surgery after being hit in the jaw with a fence paling. The attack left him afraid to return to school.

iPhone users are liars, Android users are not: Study - Researchers also found that iPhone users have lower level of honesty and humility compared to the Android users.  "Key differences in personality were also observed with iPhone users displaying lower levels of Honesty-Humility and higher levels of emotionality." The research was originally conducted in September at the British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section annual conference. "This study provides new insights into personality differences between different types of smartphone users," said Heather Shaw, from the University of Lincoln in the U.K. "Smartphone choice is the most basic level of smartphone personalisation, and even this can tell us a lot about the user," she added.

Police ordered Papuan praying congregation to disperse, accusing them of separatism - Sorong Police in West Papua province confirmed they ordered a group of people praying on SPG Sorong field on Saturday to disperse and accused ...

How mining and militarisation led to an HIV epidemic in Indonesia's Papua - And the study indicated that 88 percent of HIV-positive people in Papua and neighbouring West Papua provinces were unaware that they had ...

MANA and Maori Party agree to work together - There's a lot to consider – we have some common goals, like winning the 7 Maori seats back, but that throws up its own issues like who should stand ...

Web series follows young Māori and Pacific Island dancers - This new 8 part web series follows the journey of young, aspiring Māori and Pacific Island dancers from Whitireia Community Polytechnic in Wellington ...

Spring clean at Wellington Police station uncovers box of precious Maori treasures - Wellington Central Police Station Customer Services Manager Sharon Johnston with some of the taonga that police are trying to reunite with their ...

Looking like a smoker, a smokescreen to racism? Māori perceived appearance linked to smoking ... - Objectives: Māori , the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa (New Zealand), continue to exhibit the highest rate of smoking of any ethnic group ...

Māori input for disaster relief planning is key - Kaikōura's Takahanga Marae is a shining example that Māori are a vital cog during a civil emergency says Minister of Whānau Ora Te Ururoa Flavell.

Landowners let down by Maori Land Bill -  Māori landowners have been seriously let down by a flawed Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill which lacks broad support, fails to address the obstacles to ...