Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

What happens after a day of violence : The production is an international collaboration between the ETT and Australian company Brink. Adelaide-based director Chris Drummond came up with the original idea after seeing Hicks with Andrew Denton on Enough Rope in 2007. "She was stripped of ...

Apprentices living below poverty line: ETU | The Australian MANY trade apprentices are living below the poverty line with low pay deterring people from entering trades and dropping out of traineeships, a union says.

Expedition seeks source of thousand-year-old coins in Aboriginal Australia : Like a detective working a cold case, an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis anthropologist hopes to unravel the mystery of how a handful of coins, some dating back more than 1,000 years, wound up on a remote beach along Australia's ... IUPUI Newscenter

Australia makes record drug seizure of meth : Australian police have announced their largest seizure of methamphetamine, an illicit drug smuggled into Sydney hidden in shipments of chemicals from China. Authorities said on Thursday that they had also arrested an Australian , a Singaporean and a man ... Aljazeera.com

Looking to Australia for help on health care : Canada's health care system performs worse than Australia's in many areas, the report states. The institute recommends Canada focus on several areas to more closely emulate Australia , including activity-based funding, cost sharing, private health care ...

Why Tablets Trump Books For Older Eyes : The elderly can be extremely resistant when it comes to adopting new technology, especially if it supplants something as tried-and-trusted as a book. Subsequently, e-readers and tablets are products to be feared and distrusted; just like broadband ...

Suicide plan not taken seriously: sister - The West Australian : The sister of a mentally ill Perth woman who killed herself after taking a euthanasia drug claims the mental health system failed to take seriously new evidence of ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Reverend doubts Pacific Island gay marriage support Word of Life Church minister, Reverend Tavale Mataia, told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat that Pacific Island people won't accept gay marriage on religious and cultural grounds. "When they say that 80 per cent of the population agree with [ gay marriage ...

Ellen DeGeneres in Australia: TV Host/Comedian Opens Up about Gay Sexuality ... : It is now recognized worldwide that Ellen DeGeneres lives an openly gay life with Australian actress Portia De Rossi. While in Australia , the 55-year-old TV host/comedian opened up about what happened after admitting her gay sexuality during an ... International Business Times AU

New Australian Comedy Series May Be 'Too Gay' For Mainstream TV : Please Like Me, a new Australian comedy series has been taken off mainstream television with its star and creator, Josh Thomas speculating it is because the show is “too gay .” The show is about a young man, played by Thomas, who comes out and starts a ... The Inquisitr

Curable eye disease still rife among Indigenous Australians : While it disappeared from mainstream Australian society 100 years ago, trachoma continues to be a significant problem among remote Indigenous communities.

Push to send Indigenous children to boarding schools : There is a push to take Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students out of their communities and send them to boarding schools to improve their education. Professor Marcia Langton, an expert in Indigenous studies, says far from creating another ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Over 80 police in Papua New Guinea dismissed for misconduct HARPER: I understand that there are some concerns in Papua New Guinea that police officers find it very difficult to prosecute cases through the courts and it takes too long, so that sometimes they take the law into their own hands so to speak and deal ...

Hasty Education Bill puts NZ's Poorest Children At Risk : CPAG welcomes ongoing, thoughtful education reform that supports better educational outcomes for New Zealand children, especially its poorest. Education is a route out of poverty and while improvements are welcome, New Zealand needs to be cautious ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Poverty, family structure and state spending : In fact, the United States has the highest relative child poverty rates of the selected high-income nations. In Oceania, Australia had a relative child poverty rate of 11 percent, and New Zealand's was 12 percent. Western Europe had the lowest rates of ...

Maori Party disappointed at Supreme Court decision : Dr Sharples said “there is no doubt in our minds that the issue of Maori rights in water will continue to be debated through the Tribunal and the Courts, and we will continue to support the many avenues that tangata whenua choose to use to have their ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Making noise to raise youth suicide awareness : Kahui Neho, who has worked at Waikato Hospital's Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre for four years, is teaming up with motorbike club the Super Maori Fullas to launch the Riders Against Teenage Suicide (RATS) Green Ribbon Ride campaign. The group will ... Waikato Times