Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Seniors forced to wait ages for residential care  - COTA Australia chief executive Ian Yates said a system that assesses an older person as needing care but then makes them wait months before they ...

Indigenous women subject to horrifying levels of violence  - Would indigenous women and children feel safer if constitutional recognition, or even a treaty, eventuated in Australia ? The answer must be a ...

Indigenous Plurinationalism Requires Respect, Understanding  - What Indigenous Peoples are seeking in terms of self-governance is more akin to plurinationalism than the assimilationist blueprints given by most nation states and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Plurinationalism enables people to form their own constitutions with laws, government, territory, and cultural life that is congruent with their history. Plurinationalism does not require secession 

Closing the gap - $24m for Indigenous schooling  - YOUNG Indigenous women in Tamworth will benefit from a $24 million ... The Clontarf Foundation and Role Models and Leaders Australia will each ...

Investing in the future of Indigenous Youth  - The Coalition is investing the money from July 2016 in a range of projects to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians throughout their ...

Gay Men Wanted to Donate Blood in Orlando. They're Still Not Allowed To.  - There were many gay men who would have liked to help but couldn't. ... In 2000, Australia replaced its own indefinite ban on MSM blood donations ...

Tension at funerals for victims with anti- gay protest, irate driver  - Funerals for two of the 49 victims killed in the shooting at a nightclub in Florida have been marked by tense scenes, as an impatient driver was ...

Australia's same-sex marriage plebiscite is unnecessary, wasteful and dangerous  - And yet, pretty much in direct contravention of such unassailable notions, Australia is headed for an utterly predictable and preventable social ...