Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

New Indigenous Business Australia boss targets wealth, loans  - THE creation of inter-generational wealth and the expansion of business and home loan opportunities for Aborigines will underpin an overhaul of ...

Boyd family's Murrumbeena gatherings a fount of inspiration for Australian artists  - Merric, who became a famed potter, was the father of one of Australia's ... "He had never encountered any indigenous Australians except for a man he ...

Australia's detention of refugees is forbidden by international law: UN Committee Against Torture  -  Australia's detention of refugees, including children, is 'cruel, ... In written observations the committee said Australia should repeal the laws that ... indigenous people in jails, and the situation of women in detention facilities, ...

Gay Men Should Be Allowed to Give Blood  - For one, it groups all gay men into one excluded category. ... Several nations, including Argentina, Australia , Hungary, Japan and Sweden, have ...

Manus Island detainee fears jail for homosexuality if rape reported to police  - Another gay man, Abbas*, told Guardian Australia he had been sexually harassed and threatened with rape regularly since arriving on Manus in ...

Gay marriage bill introduced in Australian Senate  - The Liberal party will have to consider allowing its members a free vote on same-sex marriage after a crossbench senator ...

Kevin Andrews says Australia's 'high' divorce rate disadvantages children  - should instead focus on the concerning levels of child poverty in Australia .” ... “The biggest pressure on Australian families is Tony Abbott and Kevin ...

One child commits suicide each week and up to 60 are hospitalised for self harm  - Each week in Australia , one child under the age of 18 dies from suicide , ... The shocking findings from the Australian Human Rights Commission, ...