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Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.

Australia -| Detainees' mental health problems 'managed' with inappropriate drugs

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Detainees' mental health problems 'managed' with inappropriate drugs: MARK COLVIN: Psychiatrists and human rights workers have been warning for years about an epidemic of mental illness inside Australia's detention centres but ...

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Top stories of the last 30 days

Mineral explorers say 'costly, protracted' Aboriginal cultural heritage processes 'holding ...

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, May 26, 2026

WA is becoming less competitive for mining exploration due to Aboriginal cultural heritage compliance processes being allowed to balloon ... View article...

WA cultural heritage laws 'costly and outdated', says miners

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, May 26, 2026

The cost of complying with Western Australia 's outdated Aboriginal cultural heritage laws has increased by almost 50 per cent in three years, ... View article...

Aotearoa Music Awards 2026: Marlon Williams, Lorde and Te Pāti Māori MP among winners

Australian Eastern Time — Friday, May 29, 2026

Marlon Williams has taken out the top honours at this year's Aotearoa Music Awards . The Lyttelton crooner is going out on a high, adding three ... View article...

Budget invests in Māori language and cultural capability

Australian Eastern Time — Friday, May 29, 2026

The Government is investing in te reo Māori by strengthening Māori broadcasting and supporting Māori cultural and creative capability, ... View article...

Diabetes Australia is 'All In' for Reconciliation and better health outcomes

Australian Eastern Time — Thursday, May 28, 2026

Overall, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are also almost four times more likely than non Indigenous Australians to live with diabetes or ... View article...

Interim First Nations Aged Care Commissioner steps down

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, May 26, 2026

During her time in the role, Andrea Kelly authored the landmark report Transforming Aged Care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. View article...

NZD $1 Million to grow Māori and Pasifika engineers

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, May 26, 2026

More than NZD $1 million in new funding is available to support more Māori and Pasifika young people into engineering and technology careers. View article...

Kate Ten Buuren on curating First People's Melbourne Art Trams

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, May 26, 2026

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. “We'd put on pop-up exhibitions , throw parties, host art-making workshops and impromptu poetry ... View article...

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Top stories of the last 7 days

New study calls for fairer representation in Parliament

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Once aboriginal title is recognized or ceded in a particular area, the aboriginal ... For aboriginals living within the aboriginal title area, in ... View article...

Poor communities hit by largest diphtheria outbreak on record

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, among the most oppressed layers of the population, account for 95 percent of infections. With case ... View article...

Making room for leadership in nursing

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Professor Julia Slark steps aside to focus on stroke research, saying it is time for Josephine Davis's Māori leadership to shine. View article...

Health NZ drops email domain after months in use

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Te Whatu Ora is scrapping its current Māori -language email address, despite many staff having used it for only a few months. View article...

Kiwifruit collective wins Ahuwhenua Trophy

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Young Māori Grower award is won by Te Rina Joe from Pakuratahi Orchard for Ngāti Pāhauwera Commercial Development Ltd. View article...

Orchids Across Realms: Transnational Museum Collaboration and Aboriginal Cultural ...

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

They exist simultaneously within the realms of literati aesthetics, botanical science, Aboriginal ritual practice, and colonial history. Their ... View article...

High Court can hear cases on Aboriginal sovereignty, new findings show

Australian Eastern Time — Wednesday, June 10, 2026

The long-held legal assumption that Australia's High Court does not have the power to hear claims of Aboriginal sovereignty is wrong, according to new ... View article...

EIT student wins Ahuwhenua Young Māori Grower Award

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

An EIT horticulture student has been named the winner of the 2026 Ahuwhenua Young Māori Grower Award in recognition of her leadership and ... View article...

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