Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Indigenous peoples look to preserve environment - It was 2009 and a severe storm had battered Kingscliff, her home on the east coast of Australia. Several meters of beach and dune disappeared, while cranes were needed to shift whole buildings back to save them from the water's edge.

Peter Collier says planned changes to Aboriginal Heritage Act “not racist”  - Under the proposed changes, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs would be responsible for most of the decision making sparking fears the legislation ...

LGBT community celebrated at Australian Football's first Pride Game  - The Australian Football League (AFL) held its first-ever Pride Game to celebrate the LGBT community during a match between St Kilda and the ...

Indonesian Government fuelling hate campaign against LGBT community, human rights group says  - Human Rights Watch said in the first six months of this year, the Government and its ministers had stoked an unprecedented attack against LGBT  ...

Discriminatory' work-for-the-dole scheme under legal threat  - A research report from the Australian National University found there were about 50,000 penalties imposed in the first six months of the program ...

Naive whingers the real offenders in Bill Leak cartoon furore  - The Australian has reported on the appalling conditions of outstation and former mission Aboriginal communities for 25 years. Not all were bad.

Melbourne Indigenous teen credits early intervention with getting off drugs, turning life around  - Mr Gardiner has returned to coaching basketball, and said he would love to start his own food van and travel around Australia . He has some advice for ...

Language lost with the passing of 'great elder' Tommy George  - The loss of one of Australia's ancient Aboriginal languages was mourned yesterday with the burial on Cape York of its last fluent speaker, Tommy ...