Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Australia Marks 50 Years Since Historic Indigenous Walk Off  - The walk off in a white run cattle station in the remote town of Kalkarindji was a protest against poor living and working conditions for Indigenous  ...

 Football fans now see a racist slur as an outrage  -  Australian rules football has been a powerful force for advancing recognition and understanding of indigenous people. This was encapsulated in this ...

Australia growing greyer  - There were 2.2 million people aged 65 years and over living in Australia’s capital cities in 2015 (up from 1.8 million in 2010). Additionally, 1.4 million live in areas outside our capitals (up from 1.2 million in 2010). Hobart has the oldest population of any Australian capital city. Hobart’s median age – the age at which half the population is older and half is younger – was 39.8 years at June 2015, compared to 37.4 years for Australia.

Indonesia 'unable to cut chain of poverty '  - It's an area that was also ranked one of Mr Widodo's weakest points in terms of performance in a survey released this week. According to the survey of 1220 people aged 17 and over, 68 per cent said they were satisfied with Mr Widodo's performance and 74 per cent believed in his capacity to lead.

Dreaming of a day when indigenous languages are protected and honoured  - For years now, we as a country have heard the calls for the need to preserve Indigenous languages before it is too late, yet still we find ourselves ...

When the War on Drugs Undermines the War on AIDS  - Which is not to say that people living with HIV in Australia are not injecting ... LGBT communities have constantly innovated when it comes to harm ...

First-ever 'Pride Match' held in Australia  - The first-ever professional “Pride Match” has been held in Australia as part of efforts by Aussie sports to stamp out homophobia. It was played on ...

Do black deaths matter?' - The Project host used Friday night's editorial to tackle the huge number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders being locked up in Australian prisons ...