Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Jokowi presses ahead with Papua tour despite violence  - Badrodin Haiti to stop using repressive measures in Papua, calling on security personnel to promote dialogue with the Papuan people in order to build ...

Fleet rebuild brings job training  - The Nelson company building Aotearoa Fisheries' new fleet wants to give young Maori a start in marine engineering. Aimex Service Group is building ...

Australian parents to face another childcare fee hike  - PARENTS with kids in care could see their childcare bills rise again from January 1, when centres are forced to put on extra staff to meet the latest changes to the National Quality Framework.

A penalty the poorest will have to pay  - These voters know that 2.5 million Australians already live below the poverty line, and any attack on wages and conditions of the lowest-paid workers ...

More than one quarter of children in care are Indigenous  - The ACT government cannot say how many of Canberra's foster carers are Indigenous, despite a vast over-representation of Aboriginal children in care.

Gonorrhoea superbug crisis looms as Australian caseload jumps 60 per cent  - The overall Australian age standardised gonorrhoea notification rates in 2012 for Indigenous compared with non Indigenous Australians were 933.4 ...

Plain packaging effective in reducing misperceptions of tobacco products among Australian ...  - Plain packaging means tobacco company colours, logos and design elements are not allowed on tobacco products, but government health warnings still appear

Art of APY survival puts youth in the frame  - South Australia's Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Kyam Maher, says the centres' viability was important. “People talk to me about two things on the APY ...