Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Accept homeless funding deal: welfare body : One of Australia's peak welfare organisations is urging state and territory governments to accept $159 million in federal funds to address homelessness . Homelessness Australia chief Nicole Lawder says the states have turned down the offer, despite ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

'Sapphires' the latest look at Aborigines in film : With all the successive waves of Australian films, bands, and actors that have landed on American shores in the last 30 years - from "The Road Warrior" to Russell Crowe, AC / DC to Gotye - indigenous Australia has been mostly invisible. Part of that is ...

EU deluged with fake 'gay' claims from Africans seeking new home In Britain, the government also faces a major problem following a Supreme Court ruling in 2010 that homosexuals can't be deported on the grounds that they could conceal their sexual orientation at home. Lesbianism is also at issue, encouraged by the ...

Gay marriage debate: Supreme court indicates cautious approach : US supreme court justices tore into a central argument of opponents of same-sex marriage on Tuesday as the court heard for the first time arguments over whether gay couples have a constitutional right to wed. The deep polarisation of the court on ... The Guardian

Giving indigenous children access to education should be a bipartisan priority He explained that all government agencies working on issues to do with Aboriginal Australia would in his new administration report to the Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet. The energetic Opposition Leader regularly spends one week each year doing ...

Northern Ireland's ban on gay marriage to be challenged by Amnesty in court : Unionist parties have voted at Stormont to ensure Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where lesbian , gay , bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) people are excluded from the same-sex marriage bill, which was passed in the Commons in February. Amnesty ... The Guardian

Suicide bombers hit Afghan police station after Kerry trip : Defense Minister Stephen Smith said he expected that "by the end of the year, we will see at least 1,000 Australian personnel return home." Some 1,650 Australian soldiers are currently stationed in Afghanistan as part of the ISAF-led mission. Since the ...

Disabled poverty figures 'shameful' : "The reality of it might be people who might not have been to the cinema for years, people who can't afford to go to dinner with friends, people who have lost social networks, people whose marriages have broken up because they've been in poverty for a ... SBS