Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Extinct Denisovans from Siberia made stunning jewellery - but did they also discover Australia ? - Yet remarkably their DNA lives on in the Aboriginal people of Australia and the Melanesians of Papua New Guinea to a far greater extent than in any ...

Community pays financial and emotional costs for increased imprisonment - While Australia is removed from the terrorist atrocities in other parts of the world, ... Last week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released its latest figures ... indigenous and non- indigenous Australians was entrenched disadvantage, ...

A nation of convict cussers? Time for Australian law to embrace our potty mouths -  Indigenous Australians comprised 27% of those proceeded against for ... Australia's punishment of swearing can be traced back to the very first ...

With fewer fluent speakers, demand for teachers of Indigenous languages is on the rise - A trend toward "Indigenizing" programming in schools by bringing Indigenous culture and languages into the classroom has led to a demand for ...

Better education outcomes for Indigenous students -  Australia achieves relatively strong education results at an aggregate level, yet many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students experience poor ...

Millions of Australians frozen out of the justice system - Regional, remote and rural (RRR) Australia is home to a broad cross-section of people, from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote ...

Cashless welfare card report does not support ministers' claims, researcher says - Janet Hunt, the deputy director of the centre for Aboriginal economic policy research at the Australian National University, says the government has ...

Bishops say Australia has more money, but wealth not distributed justly -  While Australia has experienced more than 25 years of ... Many Aboriginal and other indigenous communities "struggle with social and ...

Suicide rising for older men - WHILE men aged over 85 have one of the highest suicide rates in Australia they are often overlooked in the fight against suicide . This lack of attention ...

Your child is at risk': Will Carrigan's parents say education is key to suicide prevention - Your child is at risk': Will Carrigan's parents say education is key to suicide ... After their son's death , the Carrigans set out to learn more about youth ... what was happening in the Upper Hunter could lead to change across Australia .

Duterte asks human rights chief: Are you a pedophile? - Are you gay or a pedophile?” Mr Duterte also ... It is not often that the CIA makes a request of its close friend and ally Australia and gets knocked back.

This 12-year-old boy has the best reason to legalize same-sex marriage - 12-year-old Max Townes has the best reason to legalize same-sex marriage in Australia . In a viral post from his mother Megan, Max wrote the best ...

Why same-sex couples still struggle with legal recognition - LAWS have gradually recognised same-sex couples as defactos in Australia but there's some areas where they are still not equal to married couples.

gay Muslims shake off conservative image to back same-sex marriage - Muslims make up 2.6 per cent of Australia's population and its level of support for same-sex marriage is difficult to quantify. Mr Ali points to Pew ...

Here's how YOU can help Australia get a 'yes' for marriage equality - Even though the majority of Australians support marriage equality, the nature of the postal survey means that not everyone is likely to vote or to post ...

Mental health groups sound alarm over dramatic same-sex marriage survey spike - We fear Australia will be counting the cost of the postal survey for many ... said young gay people were reporting feeling "hated by Australians " as a ...

Startling Genetic Diversity Indicates That Ancient Papuans Didn't Even Mix With Each Other - The ancient Papuans would settle the highlands and the lowlands – and each would stay where it was. "The genetic divide is between the people in ...

Oceania bishops want sustainable development - The bishops also expressed concern for the livelihood and cultural integrity of the people of West Papua , without going into the issue of independence ...

What New Zealanders think about... foreign policy - In regards to New Zealand's military involvement in Afghanistan, only 15 per cent actually agreed with keeping Kiwi personnel in the country, and 46 ...

The rise of social enterprise in New Zealand - Lots of different people use the social enterprise model to deliver their goals, so they often look different and think differently. This is .... How significant is New Zealand hosting the Social Enterprise World Forum later this month?