Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

I'm scared of Aboriginal people': First Contact reveals prejudices - The SBS reality show takes six apparently well-known Australians on a journey into indigenous Australia , with often confronting results. Former Miss ...

Whatever you call it, Australia Day is our most divisive day - Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day. Whatever you call it, January 26 is either seen as a day for non-indigenous Australians to celebrate the founding of Australia or for Aboriginal people to mourn dispossession and slaughter. Australia is probably the only western nation in the world that continues to celebrate its foundation on a day which marks the beginning of an invasion by colonists who attempted to eradicate a country’s true inhabitants.

How Australia is failing its indigenous people -  Australia's economy has been growing for 25 years, the country is deemed one of the happiest in the world. But one group is not profiting from this ...

Victorian Government backs down on decision to move teens to Barwon Prison - The Victorian Government has backed down on its plan to transfer Indigenous teenagers involved in recent riots at a youth detention centre to a maximum-security prison. The settlement came on the eve of an urgent Supreme Court case brought by the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service to stop teenage inmates being moved to Barwon Prison near Geelong.   

Salvation Army announces support for Safe Schools - After a chequered past with LGBT issues, The Salvation Army has ... likes of the Australian Christian Lobby and far right groups for its teachings about ...

13-year-old boy took his own life 'after years of homophobic bullying' - Responding to the news of the young teen's suicide, Micah Scott, CEO of Australian LGBT youth support group Minus18, said it “isn't an isolated ...

Australia boy's death reignites focus on LGBT bullying - He ignored the taunts as best he could. His favourite saying was "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me". But a month ago, Tyrone was involved in a violent clash - allegedly with another student - outside school. According to his mother, Tyrone required surgery after being hit in the jaw with a fence paling. The attack left him afraid to return to school.

iPhone users are liars, Android users are not: Study - Researchers also found that iPhone users have lower level of honesty and humility compared to the Android users.  "Key differences in personality were also observed with iPhone users displaying lower levels of Honesty-Humility and higher levels of emotionality." The research was originally conducted in September at the British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section annual conference. "This study provides new insights into personality differences between different types of smartphone users," said Heather Shaw, from the University of Lincoln in the U.K. "Smartphone choice is the most basic level of smartphone personalisation, and even this can tell us a lot about the user," she added.