Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Chinese police swoop on child trafficking gang  - Chinese police have rescued 92 children and two women kidnapped by a gang for sale and arrested 301 suspects, in one of the biggest busts of its kind in years  ...

Gun violence : Are violent video games to blame?  -  Australia made substantive life-saving changes without addressing video game or media violence . The relationship of violence in the media, including video  ...

Lunch with ... Patricia Edgar  - Similarly, why are older Australians so absent from television - except in the most minor representations - when they are such heavy television viewers?

Men need to hear the personal stories  - ENGAGING with the head and with the heart is the way to help others understand family violence , according to Australia's sex discrimination commissioner.

UN warning of human crisis in Philippines south  - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that 158,000 people have been affected by the violence and more than 10,000  ...

The hidden burden of heart disease  -  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in regional and remote Australia , Maori and Pacific Islander peoples in New Zealand and some refugee communities,  ...

Poverty benchmark uncovers Hong Kong wealth gap  - Hong Kong has launched its first benchmark to measure poverty and found almost ... The poverty line, marked at half of the median household income, showed  ...

Southern suburbs mother says lack of Education Department ...  - A DISTRAUGHT mother of a child allegedly abused at a southern suburbs school says ... Today, the mother said she had received assurances from one of Child   ...

Illegal child labour still behind Australian footballs  - A year after Fairfax Media exposed the illegal child labour practices behind footballs, poor children in India are still found stitching balls bound for Australia .

Police inaction preceded domestic violence victim's murder, inquest ...  - The murder of a domestic violence victim in front of 300 people was precipitated by a "cascade" of police inaction and omissions, the South Australian coroner  ...

New chief executive for mental health service provider  - When he left Australia , he was the New South Wales quality manager, responsible for standards in all public, private and voluntary mental health services across  ...

End-of-life choice advocate pleads for gentle exit: Poll  - Aina Ranke's suicide did not go entirely as planned after her carer arrived ... euthanasia and assisted suicide were ''turning everyday Australians into criminals''.

The challenges of remote Indigenous education  - Born and raised in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of remote South Australia , Aboriginal language worker Karina Lester spends her working  ...

Australians have marched to stop all deaths in custody  - Marches were held in a number of cities across the country over the weekend to call on Australians to stop deaths in custody. The Indigenous Social Justice  ...

The future of marriage equality  - Want to know what lies in store for the campaign for same-sex marriage? Head to the Beauchamp Hotel on Wednesday where Australian Marriage Equality  ...

Older people to make up 12% of workers by 2031  - A separate Statistics New Zealand survey released yesterday, to coincide with the International Day for Older Persons, showed that 95 per cent of older people   ...

Teens' call for help go unanswered  - Thousands of calls of help from New Zealand's most vulnerable young people are going unanswered. Nationwide, helplines for distressed children are only able  ...

New research shows children need protection from smoking in cars  - (Medical Xpress)—New research published in a leading international journal shows young people's exposure to secondhand smoke in cars in New Zealand   ...

New Zealanders enjoy Indonesian  - It also featured a festival of Indonesian traditional foods where the New Zealand people could taste nasi padang (traditional rice meal from West Sumatra), mie  ...

Size of Wine Glass Turns Drinkers Tipsy  - Co-author of the research study and an assistant professor of marketing at Iowa State said in a statement that people have trouble assessing volumes of wine.

Another Digital Nationz expo a possibility  - “Seeing the reaction of the people on the day and hearing all the chatter, it was extremely rewarding and also gave me ideas for new concepts and  ...

Neutral Smells Become Repulsive in Anxiety  - According to a new study, a stressed person feels that neutral smells are also stinking. In this way, a stressed person can not only make you smell bad but also  ...

Cancer images banned in New Zealand  - The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation (NZBCF) had wanted to show the ... “We're in the 21st century and If it helps one person to go to their doctor and do  ...

New scheme will pit disabled people against loved ones - group  - A Government scheme which puts the onus on disabled people to hire a ... will end up pitting disabled people against their loved ones, the New Zealand Carers  ...

Kiwis among the world's happiest people   - Kiwis smile and laugh more than most people , while being well-rested and feeling that they are treated with respect. New Zealand is ranked 15th, alongside  ...