Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

A call to make better use of nurses in the primary healthcare workforce  -  Australian health policy makers at both a State and Federal level tend to have a short sighted view of healthcare that values acute care at the cost of ...

Safeguarding an entire generation of Syrian children  - ver the last year, an additional 770,000 children affected by the Syria crisis benefitted from some form of education and almost 660,000 children received psychological support. Helping the children of Syria is investing in the future of Syria, as today’s children are tomorrow’s doctors, teachers, lawyers and leaders. Investing in this generation is helping them acquire the skills and knowledge they will need to rebuild their communities when peace returns,” said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. “We need to heal their hearts and minds. “Helping the children of Syria is investing in the future of Syria, as today’s children are tomorrow’s doctors, teachers, lawyers and leaders. Investing in this generation is helping them acquire the skills and knowledge they will need to rebuild their communities when peace returns,” said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. “We need to heal their hearts and minds. And

The mature aged workforce - work health and safety questions for the future  - These statistics were a significant item on the 2014-15 Australian federal budget agenda, which foreshadowed an increase to the aged pension age, ...

Bringing poverty back into the spotlight  - The 2014 budget cut foreign aid by over seven billion dollars over the next five years. But that hasn't stopped a bus load of 16-26 year olds driving from Adelaide to Canberra to demand more be done to combat extreme poverty.  

One in three seniors live in poverty  - While Australia climbed one spot to 13th in the 2014 Global AgeWatch Index, a worldwide study of the quality of life and wellbeing of older people, ...

Australian call centre staff face insecurity and mental health issues secondary to abuse  - It has not been a great month for call centre workers in Australia , with talk of the Department of Human Services (DHS), Medicare and Qantas all ...

Anti-Islam, but pro- gay ? How mosque opponents tie themselves in knots  - It could be said that resisting the building of mosques in Australia because Islam ... While attempting to present themselves as LGBT allies is clearly a ...

BHP funds Indigenous scholarship  - with BHP Billiton will enhance and expand our education programs to reach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from across Australia .

Traditional owners, scientists and cat gizzards key to Kiwirrkurra Indigenous Protected Area success  - Pintubi traditional owners, whose numbers include the last Aboriginal people to make contact with white Australians in 1984, have just signed their ...

Working with community  - “I think it’s a fundamental belief that services that are responsive to communities are more effective,” says Teresa Hutchins. “We believe a lot of things haven’t worked because they’re somebody else’s good idea rather than the community’s good idea. Basically communities often know what needs to happen, but they don’t know how to make it happen. Our job is to help them make it happen - that’s the expertise we have.”

Living in the Shadows: The Australian aboriginal community in New South Wales  - In 1835, the town now known as Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia , was “discovered” by explorer Maj. Thomas Mitchell. Located far inland on the ...

Australia's Biddigal Dreaming to bring Indigenous history to life on stage in Sydney  - Biddigal Dreaming" has captured a tapestry of Australia's Indigenous heritage and history by sitting with elders from the nations of Yidinji, Wiradjuri, ...

The poverty trap of Gen Y  - In the June 2013 Income Survey produced by Statistics New Zealand the median weekly income for all working age people was just below $30,000.00 ...

Anti-drilling hikoi arrives in Auckland  - As we stand here today in our hundreds and our thousands, we are in sync with with millions of people around the world." New Zealand had a ...

Climate change helped migration: study  - The wind patterns show that New Zealand was potentially colonised by people voyaging from Tonga, Fiji, the Southern Cook Islands and the Austral ...

Amnesty lifts American Samoa population  - American Samoa has more than 4,000 new lawful residents after ... "We, here in the Executive Branch, could definitely feel the weight of people are ...

Parents sign away first borns for wifi  - The experiment was aimed to highlight "the total disregard for computer security by people when they are mobile" the report, released on Monday, ...

Pacific Island nations develop new strategies to cope with diabetes  - The new strategies are encouraging people to be more active. ... when people move from the island countries to Australia and New Zealand ,” he says ...

Focus on togetherness in smokefree campaign  - More than 3000 smokers throughout New Zealand have signed for ... over the past two years that resulted in nearly 250,000 people quitting smoking.

Auckland all for Smokefree outdoor dining  - Smoking is the leading cause of disease and death in New Zealand , with approximately 5,000 people dying each year due to smoking related ...

Beating comment un-kuia-like  - The new MP for Te Tai Tokerau says Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia is trivialising domestic violence in her latest attack on the Labour Party.

Whitirea graduates Maori nurses  - New Maori nurses are struggling to find jobs, even though the health system is claiming that it needs more nurses who can respond to the needs of ...

Wind patterns helped Maori sailors: study  - Favourable winds in the 1100s and 1200s meant Maori sailors didn't need the ability to sail upwind to get to New Zealand, climate researchers say.

Maori want regions boosted  - We can continue to press on with our election manifesto which aims to improve regional economic development which recognised Maori and, ...