Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Turnbull lashed for failure to close the gap in indigenous disadvantage - The Closing the Gap campaign was agreed to under Kevin Rudd's prime ministership and coincided with his historic apology for wrongs done to indigenous Australians . It aimed to close the gap on indigenous disadvantage on a range of measures around health, mortality and education, but only one of ...

Gap closing on vow to fight indigenous disadvantage  -  EFFORTS to Close the Gap on indigenous disadvantage have fallen ... report on Wednesday, pledging to improve the lives of Australia's First Peoples.

Slowly closing indigenous disadvantage gap : Prime Minister Julia Gillard has told parliament Australia is slowly closing the gap on indigenous disadvantage. Presenting the annual Closing the Gap report on Wednesday, Ms Gillard said two out of six targets were on track.

Australia: Investing To Close The Gap On Indigenous Disadvantage ... The Australian government is investing in a wide array of strategies to close the gap on indigenous disadvantage.

Homes the first step in solving indigenous disadvantage' - Hard figures and targeted investment, not rhetoric, are key to solving indigenous disadvantage, Aboriginal health leader Pat Turner said as she called ...

Indigenous disadvantage getting worse in mental health and incarceration -  Australia's efforts to combat Indigenous disadvantage are continuing to see declining outcomes in mental health, family violence, and incarceration, ...

Indigenous disadvantage is driven by a lack of participation in the Australian economy - Business isn't something that Australians normally associate with indigenous people. It's usually disadvantage, welfare, remote communities with “no jobs” and disparity. The disparity is real and exists for one reason — too many indigenous people don't participate in the real economy. It is the lack of ...

Indigenous disadvantage is driven by a lack of participation in the Australian economy - Business isn't something that Australians normally associate with indigenous people. It's usually disadvantage, welfare, remote communities with “no jobs” and disparity. The disparity is real and exists for one reason — too many indigenous people don't participate in the real economy. It is the lack of ...

Court deliberates on Indigenous disadvantage in sentencing offenders  - The NSW criminal court of appeal has reserved judgment on a case which looks at whether the social disadvantage of Indigenous Australians should be taken into account when sentencing offenders.

Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Productivity Commission report identifies mixed results for ...   - "It can assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to hold governments to account, and to develop their own responses to the disadvantage ...

Abbott says Australia failing to end indigenous disadvantage  -  Australia's failure to end the entrenched disadvantage of Aboriginal people was described by Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday as ...

Australia failing to end indigenous disadvantage: PM  -  Australia's failure to end the entrenched disadvantage of Aboriginal people was described by Prime Minister Tony Abbott Wednesday ...

Renewed calls for action to address Indigenous disadvantage  - Progress on meeting targets remains slow - with Indigenous life expectancy still well behind non- Indigenous Australia , and Aboriginal incarceration ...

Renewed calls for action to address Indigenous disadvantage  - Progress on meeting targets remains slow - with Indigenous life expectancy still well behind non- Indigenous Australia , and Aboriginal incarceration ...

Australia's indigenous disadvantage problem  - Abbott's espoused "personal mission" to address inequities among Australia's indigenous population - representing 2 percent of the country's 23  ...

Tech Giant Launches Foundation to Tackle Indigenous Disadvantage - One of Australia's leading tech companies is giving away more than half a million dollars to organisations helping Indigenous children, as part of a ...

Justice targets needed to reduce indigenous disadvantage  - The Australian Human Rights Commission last week called the over-imprisonment of indigenous people "one of the most urgent human rights issues ...

Uplifting words were spoken, now what will be done to close the gap on indigenous disadvantage?  - Abbott's connection with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia is ... fallible than any of his predecessors when it comes to indigenous policy.

Australia 'failing to end indigenous disadvantage' says PM  - Unlike in other nations settled by Europeans, such as Canada and New Zealand , Australia's constitution does not mention indigenous people .

Justice targets needed to reduce indigenous disadvantage  - The Australian Human Rights Commission last week called the over-imprisonment of indigenous people "one of the most urgent human rights issues ...