Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Indigenous policy: academic Jon Altman and his 'hybrid economy'  - As insiders in the indigenous ­advance­ment business know, and concerned outsiders suspect, and politicians flinch from acknow­ledging, remote Aboriginal Australian communities are caught in a downward spiral and the prospects for the foreseeable ­future are bleak. Official statistics on Aboriginal social trends are artfully framed to blur the true picture

More jobs key to closing the gaps  - That's the view from three of the nation's leading indigenous experts who have called on the ALP and the Coalition to ensure our 6855 Aboriginals residents get a fair go this election. Aboriginal people make up 5.5% of Mackay's population compared to 1.7% of Brisbane's population and 3.3% of all Australians. 

Restoring indigenous languages key to preventing youth suicides, Trudeau says  - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a virtual town hall with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network in Winnipeg in Friday that languages are at the ...

Gay wedding magazine launches in Australia , despite lack of marriage equality  - I thought to myself, there's nothing for gay weddings at all that I know of," he told Mashable Australia . "I've people in my own circle having celebrations ...

Presbyterians 'will cut state ties' over gay marriage  - In one of the most radical actions taken by a mainstream Christian denomination in Australia , the Presbyterians will divorce themselves from the state, ...

Here's how far we still have to go one year after the SCOTUS equal marriage ruling  - Currently only 24 countries in the world allow gay couples to marry legally. ... Australia's government has repeatedly struck down attempts to legalize ...

18 Things That Only Old Souls Will Truly Understand  - Wait . . . you're only how old ?!" If you've been hearing some variation of this phrase since before you can remember, then you're probably an old soul ...

Poverty porn' and 'pity charity' the dark underbelly of a Cambodia orphanage  - She looks dirty, dishevelled and miserable and is labelled a sex worker. Many Australians responded to a plea to save the pretty ...