Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Got a Trade? Got it Made!  - Budget 2016 provided $24 million for Apprentices and Maori and Pasifika Trades Training. This will support a further 5,500 apprentices, and 2,500 ...

Maori land rates remission justified  - By the 1880s it became apparent in the South that Maori-owned lands were either too small and/or infertile to sustain a growing local Maori population  ...

Education is now a Right for Papua New Guinea's Children – not a Privilege  - Speaking at the opening of the new Georita Memorial Church 2, in Maopa village on Friday, to thousands of people from around the Abau District of ...

Obama's 6 Gay US Ambassadors Are Leading the Global Fight for LGBT Rights  - Obama has appointed seven openly gay ambassadors: U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa David Huebner (who served from 2009 to ...

Why Chinese buyers are dominating the Australian property market - and you should never join the ...  -  Though Chinese property foreign investment has quadrupled from $5.9 billion in 2013 to $24.3 billion last year, about half of which is residential, it’s not just offshore buyers helping to drive Australia’s housing boom.

Coast elderly most at risk of suicide  - Care For Life Suicide Prevention Network has found the suicide rate to be significantly higher in older Australians . Ms Taylor said men were ...

Elena Delle Donne Gay : See Her Powerful Story Here  - Olympian Elena Delle Donne has revealed that she is gay . She also announced her engagement to her long-time partner. The reigning WNBA MVP ...

2000 same sex weddings in three years  - More than 2000 same-sex couples have wed in the three years since it was ... and have it legalised here, even though it won't be legal in Australia .

The Block's first lesbian couple say they will use their time in the spotlight to highlight issues of ...  - And Sasha Wright-Neville, 42, and Julia Treuel, 31, are determined to make their debut on the TV renovation show count for more than just good ratings. Julia told  The Fix  she saw herself and Sasha as role models for the lesbian community, and they would use their time in the spotlight to highlight issues of marriage equality.

Pagans Really Are an Entitled Bunch  - He speaks of Uluru and some of its importance and history to the First Nations of Australia . Accordingly, Aboriginal women are not allowed to go to ...

Australia needs its own Black Lives Matter movement to solve its huge Indigenous incarceration ...  - On July 25, Australian current affairs program Four Corners aired a report focusing on the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, a former ...

WA geneticist tackles indigenous health  - It will be the world's first 3D photo library of Australian Aboriginal faces and provide a medical resource for doctors to understand the syndromes and ...

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 ...