Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Kids' removal from indigenous families 'at crisis point' - The rate of indigenous children being removed from their families has ... In South Australia , a royal commission recommended this month that the ...

How New Zealand does income support better than Australia - The New Zealand method isn't all good - harsh sanctions have dumped people off payments, pushing them further into poverty . Evidence provided by ...

Most Australians Have No Idea Extreme Poverty Has Halved - Over the past two decades the number of people living in extreme poverty has more than halved, but 89 per cent of Australians believe the problem ...

Corporate cash for same-sex marriage a 'myth', say advocates - In May last year, while the Abbott government was grappling with what to do about gay marriage, lobby group Australian Marriage Equality was hitting ...

Anxiety disorders more common in HIV-positive gay men - HIV-positive gay and bisexual men are almost 10 times more likely ... Investigators in Sydney, Australia , designed a study to address the ...

The harsh and true reality of homophobia in sport - he 3,000 lesbian, gay , bisexual and straight Australians who were surveyed highlighted several alarming statistics about homophobia in sport in this ...

Labor had six years to support gay marriage -  There was a party in Australia that followed, but it wasn't quite the same. ... Kevin Rudd rejected gay marriage but changed his tune in 2013 when he ...

Pauline Hanson: gays should leave Australia if they want to wed - One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has suggested that gay people who want marriage equality should consider leaving Australia and moving to ...

Euthanasia in Australia , 20 years on - “We now have 10 countries around the world where assistance to die is legal and their collective populations are over 100 million”, euthanasia supporter Marshall Perron told The Australian this week. As Chief Minister of the Northern Territory Perron drove the campaign to legalise assisted dying.

Steve Kilbey joins Gina Williams to sing Under The Milky Way in Noongar language - Perth singer Gina Williams is committed to preserving the Noongar language through music, and a chance meeting with The Church's Steve Kilbey led ...

Aboriginal inmate Wayne Morrison 'left brain dead' after violent clash with prison guards in ... - It is believed he had an attack as he was being taken to the maximum security section of the prison, which holds some of South Australia's dangerous ...

Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement calls for independent investigation into Yatala jail incident - N Aboriginal legal rights body has called for an independent investigation after claims a Yatala Labor Prison inmate was not breathing for almost an ...

Griffith University experts solve mystery of Aboriginal bones - Jon Olley, who worked on the project alongside Richard Wright, Australia's leading forensic archeologist, consultant archeologist Doug Williams and ...

Aboriginal inmate left 'brain-dead': family - An Aboriginal inmate has been left brain-dead after an altercation with guards at a South Australian prison, his family says. Wayne Morrison, 29 ...

New report shows half a million older Australians are living below the poverty line - ABOUT half a million older Australians – or one-third of those on the age pension – are living below the poverty line, according to a new report.

Small businesses can move quickly on e-commerce – but don't leave Baby Boomers behind - The managing director of PayPal Australia says Australian businesses should not forget about older buyers when developing their mobile commerce ...

Don't Believe the Illicit Tobacco Trade Hype - Hāpai Te Hauora the voice of Tobacco Control warns New Zealanders to be prepared for a probable tobacco industry onslaught of exaggerated illicit ...

Two sides of the same coin - The statistics (courtesy of the Ministry of Justice, 2013), show that Maori are almost 10 per cent more likely than the average New Zealander to be the ...

Vanilla Miraka - a personal journey of Māori identity - The performance is a hilarious personal investigation into her bicultural New Zealand heritage. “I love to share this with people who have maybe lost ...

Human DNA could point to one African exodus - The study notes that at least 2 percent of these aboriginal Papua New ... had studied the genetic features of 111 aboriginal people – 25 from Papua  ...