Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Group welcomes free kids after-hours visits : New Zealand has shockingly high rates of admission to hospital for such diseases which are preventable with good primary care. "This new initiative will be of real benefit especially to the most vulnerable children, and ultimately to society as a whole ...

National 'lacking a plan' : Well over three quarters of Business NZ members believe the Government should be changing eligibility for the New Zealand Super. Just under 35 per cent think the Government has a plan to raise economic performance. However, proposals to sell off ...

Most Bali Hospitals Not Prepared to Handle Bird Flu : They are a bunch of self-righteous zealots who never managed to understand the peaceful message of their own fai Kings of the Sea Called the last paradise on earth, the Raja Ampat (Four Kings) archipelago in West Papua has been nominated as the first ... Jakarta Globe

Visa rules driving business abroad Lihir goldmine, Papua New Guinea. Companies are bypassing Cairns to bring in guest workers because of transit visa red tape. Source: The Australian RESTRICTIVE Australian visa rules are robbing Queensland companies of spillover revenues from the mining ...

Freeport Struggles To Restart Indonesian Mine Amid Strike Unrest The mine, located on the island of Papua , has been plagued by strikes, road blockades and clashes with security forces. The latest monthlong strike forced the company last week to declare force majeure for shipments of copper concentrate and gold. ...

New Papuan protests demand Indonesia take responsibility for human rights abuses A Papuan protester daubed in the colours of the Morning Star flag. Photo: PMC archive Fresh demonstrations were being held in Jayapura today demanding Indonesia take formal and legal responsibility for ongoing human rights abuses in West Papua , ...

Uganda fury at UK gay aid threat : In Nigeria, the government has unveiled a draft law which makes it an offence for anyone to support gay marriages. Mr Cameron told the BBC he had raised the issue of gay rights at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, in Perth, Australia , ... BBC News

Prayer answered at Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting – legalise homosexual The bi-annual Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting has ended in Perth, Western Australia , with calls to legalise homosexual acts being roundly ignored by the vast majority of countries. UK prayer and lobby group Christian Voice has welcomed the ...

Mental health: councils vie for headspace centre BY MELISSA CUNNINGHAM THE battle continues between Knox and Maroondah councils to secure a new youth mental health service for Melbourne's east. It follows the federal government's announcement last Monday of 15 new national centres around Australia ...

Queen Elizabeth ends Australia tour : Elsewhere during their visit, the queen took in an Aboriginal college and ate a classic Aboriginal dish of stewed kangaroo, laid a wreath at a war memorial for Australia's war dead, and opened the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth. ...

Street soccer program kicks a goal for homelessness - Senator the ... : “I am particularly pleased to have the chance to meet Cindy Chatters who represented Australia in the Homeless World Cup in Paris in August.” Ms Chatters only ...

Child migrant family find roots : Between 1873 and 1952, children suffering neglect and extreme poverty were sent via the city's Middlemore Emigration Home to Australia and Canada. Seeing the family records and visiting the former children's home on St Luke's Road was an overwhelming ... BBC News

Practitioners brace for mental health cuts : "Out in rural Australia - and especially in remote Australia , service levels drop off dramatically." "Our priority is ensuring that services are appropriately targeted to meet the needs of all Australians living with a mental illness - especially those ...

New Members of the NIF's Australian board : He is currently a board member of the Australian Indigenous Minority Supplier Council, is a corporate adviser and represents Israeli technologies in Australia through his business, High Tech Gateway. “As a lifelong advocate of a secure, democratic and ...

Prejudice and Mental Issues in Melbourne's Jewish Gay and Lesbian Community : The report is the work of the JCCV's GLBT Reference Group, comprising representatives from the JCCV Executive, Jewish people who identify as gay , lesbian bisexual and transgender, and representatives from Jewish Care and the Australian Jewish ...

Practitioners brace for mental health cuts : By Charlotte King Access to a mental health initiative deemed a success by GP's, psychologists, patients and the Australian Medical Association will be cut from November 1, the same day that a parliamentary inquiry will release its report into the ...