Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

How Australia's Aborigines Are Using Fire to Save the Dazzling Gouldian Finch - A new burn program led by Kija rangers is helping bring back the beloved birds while delivering hope to an impoverished community.

In historic gathering, nation's Indigenous MPs reject hate and vow to work together -  Australia's record-high five Indigenous MPs have vowed to work together across ... Six years ago, there were no Aboriginal MPs in federal Parliament.

Queenslanders dying earlier than most other Australians , with those in the bush most at risk - Rural Doctors Association of Australia chief executive Peta Rutherford. ... “(We) need to look at supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...

Pauline Hanson was wrong 20 years ago. And she's wrong now - Firstly, take her 1996 comments about Indigenous Australians , and her outlandish declarations that a form of reverse racism had begun to flourish ...

Where is the opposition? - TAI also noted the “staggering inequality in Australia where the 10 richest ... have the same wealth as the poorest 3.9 million Australians combined”. ... the poverty line and then to a level on which people can live with some dignity.

Gays must get behind same-sex vote - Malcolm Turnbull, sensibly sticking to a policy devised by Tony Abbott to appeal to mainstream Australia , has promised a gay marriage plebiscite on ...

Why a gay senator in Australia opposes a public vote on marriage equality - As the Australian Parliament weighs whether to hold a countrywide vote on marriage equality, the plebiscite's loudest critics have been LGBT  ...

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has a powerful message on plebiscite - On issues like economic reform and gun control, Australia was well ahead of ... ago, avoiding a lot of uncertainty and trauma for the LGBT community.