Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Crime stats suggest rangatahi Maori face institutional racism  - The Ministry of Justice's Youth Crime Action Plan has pointed out that this over-representation of Māori within the criminal justice system and argues ...

Maori students' development plan underway  - Witt chief executive Barbara George said a development plan to better support the needs of Maori learners was underway.

Maori remains repatriated from Austria  - The mummified remains of the child were taken in the late 1800s by collector Andreas Reischek, who was well-known for acquiring both Maori  ...

Fighting domestic violence shouldn't mean revoking Aboriginal rights  - Australian of the year Rosie Batty was right to criticise the federal government's allocation of a mere $16 million over three years to family violence in last week's budget. By comparison, more than a billion dollars was set aside for national security measures, an issue that is arguably costing fewer Australian lives at the present time. 

Domestic violence register trial in NSW Australia after 38 women's murders  - A domestic violence register is set to be trialed for the first time in Australia following the death of thirty eight women so far this year alone in violent  ...

Employers need more than money to hire older workers  - With Australia's official retirement age heading to 70 by 2035, this year's ... incentives designed to encourage companies to employ older workers.

The Job Guarantee: a job for every Australian within a year  - This would not only reduce poverty because the unemployed are well represented in poverty numbers. It would see an end to the bickering and ...

Gay marriage just four votes away  - SAME-SEX marriage advocates believe Australia is on the brink of legislating for gay marriage, with only the Coalition's refusal to grant a conscience ...

Gay men earn less than straight men, opposite for women: McGill study  - The other studies in the U.S., Europe and Australia find the same pattern: that gay men earn less and lesbians earn more than their heterosexual ...

Irish bakery found guilty of discrimination after refusing 'support gay marriage' cake order  - A Northern Ireland bakery owned by devout Christians who refused to bake a cake with a pro- gay marriage slogan has been found guilty of ...

Fighting domestic violence shouldn't mean revoking Aboriginal rights  - Rosie Batty: "Let's put it in its context, this is terrorism in Australia ". ... "If the governments truly believe the safety of Aboriginal women to be paramount, ...

Tasmanian Greens leader Kim Booth resigns from State Parliament  - In his maiden speech in Parliament he hoped to achieve reconciliation with Australia's Aboriginal people, praising their approach to land management ...

Time to support Aboriginal reconciliation  - However, at least one of these perceived issues is Aboriginal Reconciliation which challenges Australia as a nation to speak for justice, while so many ...

Indigenous youth need to escape 'tyranny of low expectations', Prime Minister Abbott says  - The report was compiled by the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, which pays to put hundreds of Indigenous children through top schools ...

Indigenous health programs' funding from Western Australian government slashed by half  - The Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia has described being hit by a double whammy after finding out about a 50 per cent state budget cut ...

Yearn for the day' when success is normal: PM  - At the launch of the blueprint of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF) in Sydney on Wednesday, the Prime Minister was he outlined ...

Aboriginal or Australian ?  - And each year on the 26 th of January, they bribe Aboriginal people with money and awards to prop up and participate in their debauched Australia  ...

Prevention better than cure in health budget?  - It kills someone in New Zealand every 90 minutes. ... says more funding is needed for public projects to encourage people to lead better lifestyles.

Underemployment creating ' new underclass'  - Statistics New Zealand began measuring underemployment in 2013, defining it as the "grey area" where people have a job but have similarities to ...

Rents increase $1300 a year  - Over the past five years, the median weekly rent across New Zealand had risen by ... Open-home viewings for rentals were drawing 20 to 30 people .