Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Dreamings' and place – Aboriginal monsters and their meanings  - A rich inventory of monstrous figures exists throughout Aboriginal Australia . The specific form that their wickedness takes depends to a considerable ...

Australian euthanasia proponent admits giving deadly drugs to patient to help him kill himself  - A longtime advocate of assisted suicide has broken his silence about helping a patient die nearly a ...

New understanding helps lift depression  - Statistics show that in Australia one million people – almost one in 20 – suffer from a mental illness that does not respond to traditional treatments such ...

Close the Gap group recommends no change to racial discrimination act  - It is a coalition of Australia's leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non- indigenous health and human rights organisations. At this year's ...

Poo paper protesters condemn Bleijie's new voting laws  - At first it doesn't sound like a bad idea but in practice it means that a lot of elderly people, a lot of Indigenous Australians , a lot of young people and a ...

Ex-immigration detention centre confirmed as rehab site  - The director of the Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council of South Australia , Scott Wilson, says the former detention centre will be used as a drug and ...

Clive Palmer firm Mineraology's 'poor' indigenous relations  - But an examination by The Australian of findings by magistrates in mining court and native title cases show his main company has failed to act in good ...

Indigenous population to grow by a third by 2026, ABS projects  -  Australia's indigenous population is set to increase by a third to top 900,000 by 2026, according to new projections from the Bureau of Statistics.

Online support for domestic violence to be trialled  - Improving rates of poor disclosure by victims of domestic violence is the ... “Our work will be of immediate benefit to Australian women and will also ...

Dolly Parton Speaks Out On Gay Marriage  - Same-sex marriage might not be recognized in Dolly Parton's native Tennessee, but the blond bombshell supports equality for all. "I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood. I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out," the singer, who was one of 12 children

Same-sex adoption push backed by SA online petition  - Amid continuing debate on the issue of gay marriage, a fresh push is being made in South Australia to let same-sex couples adopt. A bipartisan ...

Gay Australian veteran newsreader Ian Ross dies at 73  - Legendary Australian newsman Ian Ross (left) has passed away from complications from pancreatic cancer aged 73. News of his death broke this ...

Labor warns more aid cuts on the agenda  -  Australia's aid budget faces an overhaul and Labor fears that will mean ... believing this "aid for trade" approach is the best way to reduce poverty .

Poverty fear  - Yes, we do Mr Abbott, it's homelessness, poverty and another election. You are encouraging an attack on Australia by sending our troops overseas to ...

West Papua nabs double  - According to 2013 statistics by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), West Papua's percentage of poor people fell 1.16 percent from 28.2 percent in ...

Karnataka legislators plan tour of Kangaroo, Kiwi countries  - While Australia is known for its Kangaroos, New Zealand is famous for Kiwis and people of both countries are passionate about cricket like India.

Getting help too difficult for young people  - Getting a helping a hand is proving too hard for some of our most at-need young people . That's the message from the New Zealand Council of ...

NZ best in the world at fighting crime - expert  - The way things are going in New Zealand , you'll be having people beating a ... Ms Collins says crime in New Zealand is at a 36-year low, which she ...

Labour's KiwiSaver plan 'hits low earners'  - I think it's better that people save a bit more, than send higher interest ... In a speech in Auckland today, Parker said New Zealand had not had a ..

Expats in NZ first to cast votes  - South Africans in New Zealand were first to cast their ballots in this year's election ... “But we expect all those people who had applied to vote and were ...

Last chance for Tamaki nominations  - Mr Taurima quit as head of the broadcaster's Maori and Pacific unit when it was revealed that TVNZ premises were used for a meeting of Labour's ...

Health success stories sought  - The biennial conference, which will be held at the Hawke's Bay Racing Centre, brings together Maori health practitioners from the Central District ...

Maori wll back savings plan  - In the 1997 referendum on compulsory saving, the Maori vote for it was almost twice as high as the non- Maori vote so Maori believe in saving all right, ...