Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Crawley pre-medicine student a musical mythbuster  - The 21-year-old from Arnhem Land said of Australia's 2 per cent indigenous population, half would be imprisoned before graduating Year 12 and only ...

Indigenous access to superannuation improved by AUSTRAC  - Scheerlinck added the guidance would encourage super funds to look at more flexible approaches to identification requirements – including accepting alternative forms of identification where possible. “Promoting flexibility is an important step in creating a more inclusive superannuation system that caters to all members,” she said.

Inaugural touch football match saw police vs indigenous youth  - Inaugural touch football match saw police vs indigenous youth ... information stalls all coming together to celebrate Australia's rich indigenous heritage ...

Why Aboriginal leaders want Victoria's child protection system reformed  - The number of Aboriginal children in Victoria's child protection system has gone up by ... Jackomos was appointed Australia's first Aboriginal children's  ...

Dream expert Jane Teresa Anderson reveals child's actually nightmare means  - Monsters or a scary dream are big for kids, but they can also dream about being abandoned and alone, or dream that everything is really big around them.'

International Diabetes Federation claim global epidemic is 'underrated'  - The amputations are contributing to the increasing cost of diabetes complications which is threatening the long-term viability of Australia's health  ...

Pauline Hanson is the symptom, not the problem  -  Australia has a long history with racism and the racism that has pervaded this land since 1788, has been particularly targeted towards Aboriginal and ...

10 things you might not know about the Aboriginal Flag  - 10 things you might not know about the Aboriginal Flag ... the sun (the giver of life) and the black to represent the Aboriginal people of Australia .

We Need to Talk About Anti- LGBT Violence in Brazil  - Bangladesh. and ISIL-controlled territories in the Middle East . For Brazil's LGBTQ community, the Olympics provide an opportunity to illuminate their ...

As Suicide Rates Hit a Ten-Year High, is There Anything Australia Can Do?  - We've just come out of NAIDOC week—a celebration of Aboriginal and ... In Western Australia , Indigenous suicide rates have hit some of the world's ...

Flaw" in native title system hits business, communities - The head of one of Australia's key native title agencies has warned the native title system risks failing Indigenous communities and frustrating the ...

Meet The Radical, Indigenous Metal Band Out To Destroy The Status Quo  - Attafuah, who is of Ghanaian and British heritage, is only 18, yet offers a scathing critique of the DIY Australian punk scene's reception to her as a ...

Canadian media colonialism and the revitalization of indigenous languages  - Some 93 percent of indigenous languages in Australia have become extinct. This is by far the most serious case of "linguicide" in the world. However ...

Penny Wong says homophobic election slurs show perils of plebiscite  - Penny Wong said that during the federal election campaign, ' gay and lesbian Australians were exposed to some of the tactics that those who oppose ...

Homophobic flyers warn against gay 'death curse' and rape in public bathrooms  - A number of disturbing anti-LGBT election flyers were handed out during Australia's recent elections, claiming homosexuality was a 'death curse,' as ...

Star Trek' Defends Gay Sulu: 'We Are All LGBT '  - I liked the approach,” he told Australia's Herald Sun, “which was not to make a big thing out it, which is where I hope we are going as a species, to not ...

Unconscious bias against Māori children 'structural'  - Teachers' unconscious biases and low expectations are hurting Māori children and teachers need more support to deal with it, educationalists say.

Where There's A Will, There's A Way  - Recent global events remind me how lucky I am to call New Zealand home. ... Young people tend to think they are 'eight feet tall and bulletproof.

Emigrate to Australia or New Zealand ? Huge spike in interest since Brexit vote  - Organisers of a major event taking place in Bristol this week for people interested in emigrating to Australia or New Zealand said they have seen a ...

Thousands of New Zealanders raise £1.2m to buy 'world's best beach'  - Thousands have people have joined together to raise more than £1.2million to buy the “world's best beach” in New Zealand . Some 40,000 people  ...

Indigenous challenge to online bullying  - The national Maori and Pasifika suicide prevention programme, Waka Hourua, is trying to develop Maori -focused resources tackling online bullying.

Pygmalion Effect holding back tamariki  - Lead author Anton Blank from diversity consultancy Oranui says teachers' low expectations have lead to decades of under-achievement by Maori  ...

Matariki celebrations in Shri Ram Mandir  - The Matariki celebration at the temple brought together members of the Hindu and West Auckland Maori communities including local residents to ...

Kaupapa Maori vital for CYFS overhaul  -  Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell has told a Whanau Ora conference in Auckland the rebuild of the Child, Youth and Family Service ...