Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Why so many Aboriginal kids end up in detention  - The territory's youth detention rate is six times the national average. ... Across Australia , governments regard locking up vulnerable Indigenous  ...

Is it time for indigenous people to be recognised in the Australian Constitution?  - The Australian 's Paul Kelly has called for “leadership, honesty and compromise”, and Aboriginal Liberal MP Ken Wyatt told The Australian  ...

IndigenousDads hit back at 'offensive and racist'  - Indigenous fathers have hit back at a controversial cartoon with a social media campaign sharing images of their family life. The cartoon, published in The Australian on Thursday, depicted an Aboriginal father in the outback clutching a can of beer who is unaware of his son's name.

Gurrumul Yunupingu named artist of the year at National Indigenous Music awards  - Gurrumul Yunupingu has been named artist of the year at the National ... as the first song by a predominantly Indigenous band to chart in Australia .

Indigenous artists find their voice through photography  - The exhibition is titled Over the fence: Contemporary Indigenous photography from the Corrigan Collection and presents the artists' perspectives on identity, representation, racism, the influence of religion and the exploitation of country. 

Farm animals could hold cure to childhood asthma, study says  - Roughly 400 deaths occur due to asthma each year in Australia . Indigenous Australians are nearly twice as likely to report suffering from the condition ...

Identity politics threatens the national interest  - All we can do is await guidance from indigenous cognoscenti and then be ... Paul Kelly suggests that Australia , “once famous for its straight talking, ...

Half of young people living in Outback indigenous communities carry an STI  - The study, undertaken by South Australian Health and Medical Research ... who were diagnosed at three times the rate of non- indigenous people.