Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Indigenous enterprise: work means more than statues and dates - Last month I spent a few weeks in remote and regional Australia talking non-stop with Aboriginal people. Meanwhile, a debate raged about statues. 

New zoo approved for Western Sydney - No other zoo in Australia offers an embedded Aboriginal heritage program of this kind. “ The attraction is expected to create a $45 million boon for the ...

Don't support this disgusting business': Outraged public slams business after worker hosed the ... - The public are outraged after a video of a business worker hosing down a footpath next to where an Aboriginal man was sitting went viral online.

South Australian Government releases 2017-2021 Suicide Prevention Plan to reduce death toll - EMPLOYING an Aboriginal project officer to address indigenous suicide ... committed suicide in South Australia each year sought help beforehand.

Do you think that's really an appropriate language to be using' - The stolen generation refers to children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families under acts of ...

Haunting pics showing Australian aboriginals shackled and chained around the neck expose the ... -  Indigenous Australian men and boys are cruelly shackled together with heavy neck chains on the way to stifling jails and back-breaking work parties.

The peoples the world nearly lost: Pictures reveal the proud faces of the indigenous populations ... - images, published to mark the anniversary, show indigenous peoples from around the world, including Aborigines in Australia , Inuits in Canada ...

Perth academics lash The West Australian for publishing 'attack' on Aboriginal people - A group of Curtin University academics have lashed out at The West Australian newspaper for publishing an alleged "vicious attack on Aboriginal  ...

It is hard to talk about suicide , but employers must - She says few companies feel comfortable talking about suicide . ... In Australia , according to Mates in Construction, an organisation that looks at mental ...

Australia's workers are becoming 'Americanised', says ACTU -  Australia's workers are becoming 'Americanised', says ACTU ... jobs, with long working hours, no holidays, zero job security and poverty pay levels".

Left, right risk clash in same-sex marriage row -  Australia's march towards same-sex marriage risks turning violent as anti-fascist activists urge supporters of marriage equality to take to Melbourne's ...

ABS warns Australians not to post same-sex marriage survey forms online - The Australian Bureau of Statistics is warning people not to post pictures online that reveal the unique barcode on their same-sex marriage survey ...

Same-sex safeguards just 'gesture politics' - The bishops' comments came as Australian Council of Civil Liberties ... push for same-sex marriage seemed to arise from the desire of gay couples to ...

Australia same-sex marriage vote: New laws target hate speech -  Australia has introduced laws aimed at preventing hate speech during a national debate on legalising same-sex marriage. The country is holding a ...

Polite" Prejudice In Same-Sex Marriage Debate Still Lands, Says Penny Wong - Pratt told the Senate the safeguards won't stop LGBT Australians being exposed to hurtful comments, because it hasn't stopped her family from being ...

Hostile same-sex marriage vote spurs Australia to amend anti-hate law - The alarming volume of hate-speech during Australia's ballot over whether to legalise same-sex marriage spurred parliament to pass emergency ...

He Toki delivers on investment and upskilling young Maori - The chair of a highly successful Ngai Tahu training project says a concerted effort is needed to get young Maori into the workforce. He Toki ki te Mahi ...

Ponsonby protest for prison vote - PAPA spokesperson Emilie Rakete says more than 7000 people in prison will be unable to vote this year, the majority of them Maori . She says the law ...

Digital technology to improve education for Māori and blind - She was awarded a $5,000 scholarship from the NEXT Foundation for her work to help children at the Māori Medium School where she is based to ...

Are we making progress in the global fight for Indigenous rights? - An indigenous man from the Gaviao tribe receives a greeting from a Maori woman from New Zealand during the closing ceremony of the first World ...