Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Anger over Northern Territory Aboriginal living conditions sparks legal action, inquiry call  -  Australian Lawyers for Remote Aboriginal Rights have taken unprecedented legal action on behalf of the tenants against the Territory Government.

Close the Gap 2016: Calls for inquiry amid a 'more fails than passes' report  - The good news: the targets to halve infant mortality by 2018 and halve the gap in Year 12 attainment rates for Indigenous Australians are on track.

Malcolm Turnbull urged to tackle high rate of Indigenous incarceration  - Mick Gooda, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice ... at the underlying causes of people going to jail,” Gooda told Guardian Australia .

Number of Australians coming out on Facebook doubles in year  - The number of people coming out as LGBT on Facebook daily has doubled in Australia since the start of 2015, the social media network has ...

LGBT Bullying Could Cause Permanent Depression & Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder  - Violence against LGBT youths still abound, with a third of adolescents still suffering discrimination, harassment and assault. A study says that these ...

Six Nations school offering degree in aboriginal languages  - Creating degree programs for aboriginal languages was one of the 94 recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Gareth Morgan labelled 'selfish' as Kiwi donors threaten to pull funding if he gets involved  -  People who have donated to a crowdfunding campaign to raise $2m to buy a pristine New Zealand beach for the public say they will withdraw their ...

New Zealanders are fat and in denial about it, says survey  - "I think it's normal to be overweight now," New Zealand Nutrition Foundation ... " People are also not comfortable using some of the terminology.