Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Asthma Australia warns of back to school spike in asthma hospitalisations  - A SPIKE in asthma hospitalisations when children return to school has ... Asthma Australia wants mums and dads to speak to their doctors to update ...

Love is not enough: Grumpy grandparents want childcare pay  - The survey shows many Australians believe grandparents providing ... It's just as well, because around 937,000 children in Australia are currently ...

Gay couple feel they are treated like lepers in Australia  - Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten at the annual Midsumma gay pride ... to sabotage the possibility of equality for LGBTI people in Australia .".

Australian state to issue apology for historic anti- gay laws  - The Australian state of Victoria will become the second to issue an apology for historic gay sex convictions, it has been announced. It was confirmed ...

Could The Australian Public Soon Legalize By Vote?  -  Gay marriage has frequently occupied the forefront of political debate in Australia , and this week the country's highest-profile politicians have again ...

The most hurtful argument in the marriage equality debate'  - Labor frontbencher Penny Wong is used to hearing arguments against same-sex marriage. But for Australia's most prominent gay politician, one hurts ...

Netballer Ashleigh Brazill's civil union: my sexuality has never been an issue  - But as one of the only openly gay elite netballers in Australia , the self-proclaimed “scrappy kid” from the New South Wales town of Bargo who ...

Benoît Violier's apparent suicide highlights pressures on top chefs  - Benoît Violier's apparent suicide highlights pressures on top chefs .... In 2011, the Australian chef Skye Gyngell found just one Michelin star “a curse” ...

In their racist hate, xenophobes reveal their worst selves  - He loved Australia and his blonde-haired, alabaster-skinned girlfriend. But most of all he loved to hate Indigenous Australians . I've never encountered ...

An Interactive Digital Archive Helps Preserve Traditional Australian Aboriginal Literature  - The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages project began with a commitment to develop a digital archive to support and enhance Australian  ...

Teaching Australian Aboriginal higher education students  - This paper reports findings from a recent study of Australian Aboriginal higher education student experience. Reported here are extracts from a set of ...

Paul Pholeros, architect who helped reduce Indigenous poverty, dies at 63  - The Australian Institute of Architects ... for his role in improving health outcomes in Aboriginal communities across Australia . Pholeros was ...

Why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should care about the Australian Republic  - An Australian Republic could open doors to sovereignty for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, writes Professor Jakelin Troy. In the absence ...

Aboriginal dance group spent week working with students  - Dance students at Douglas County High School spent a week learning Australian aboriginal dance — including the reason that participants don't wear ...

Trophy hunts to be offered in New Zealand  - More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the auction, which will offer the killing of at least 600 animals in 32 countries, including New Zealand , ...

Conditions key as Australia and New Zealand renew rivalry  - Conditions key as Australia and New Zealand renew rivalry ... of a shock - a lot of people were seeing bowlers going for 70 or 80 off their 10 overs and ...

Urban explorers swim channel, sneak in to abandoned, quake-hit island fortress  - Urban explorers have sneaked into a quake-damaged abandoned island fortress steeped in Maori and New Zealand settler era history. Members of ...

New Zealand eyes 1,00000 tourists from India in 5 years - He was enthusiastic and eager to explore New Zealand's offerings, immersing himself in adventure, food and wine and Maori culture,” Dixon said.

Maori UN role for Maori HIV activist  - It's the first High Level Meeting since 2011, and Rawiri Evans, the chair of the Maori , indigenous and South Pacific HIV/AIDs Foundation INA says ...

Waka festival to get bigger  - the three days to the waterfront to see waka racing, go out on the waka themselves, see the music and kapa haka at The Cloud or try out kai Maori .

How TPPA will affect New Zealand businesses  - The New Zealand business community has written to Prime Minister John ... " Maori business benefit under the TPPA in the same way everyone else ...

Top Maori baby names for 2015  - Giving a child a Maori name was not about following trends, she said. ... The most popular baby names overall in New Zealand in 2015 were Olivia, ...

Waikawa Marae gears up for Waitangi Day celebrations  - It resulted in Britain declaring sovereignty over New Zealand in May 1840. Most chiefs signed a Maori -language version of the treaty. The English and ...

The past meets the future in Papua New Guinea's  - More than half a century later it is still a lifeline of goods and services for highlanders, who account for 40 percent of the country's 7.3 million people , ...