Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Australian support for gay marriage at all-time high  - The number of Australians who support the legalisation of gay marriage is at an all-time high, according to a new survey. Same sex marriage is not ...

What do we do now that suicide rates among young women are on the rise?  - News this month that rates of suicide in Australia are rising again appalled so many of us. The latest figures, from 2014, show we have the highest rate ...

Government members at odds over call to allow Aboriginal languages  - Ms Price, who was born in the central Australian Aboriginal community of Yuendumu, speaks her first language of Warlpiri, as well as Luritja, Western ...

Uncertainty is the new black  -  Older Australians are not bluntly opposed to changes that would make things ... As the policy options are weighed, National Seniors Australia – which ...

How Samarra Toby became a doctor to help close indigenous gap  - Oxfam Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Program Manager Justin McCaul said there was a need for “state, territory and federal ...

SA residential program takes in students from remote communities  - A new pilot program aims to help students from some of Australia's most ... Vicki Wilson, the Manager of Aboriginal Services at the South Australian  ...

The politics of identity and who gets to decide who is – and isn't – Indigenous  - They reveal a deeper level of racism and ignorance about Australian history and Indigenous peoples. They also demonstrate that colonial violence, ...

Indigenous prime minister of Australia inevitable, Aboriginal journalist Stan Grant says  - An Indigenous prime minister of Australia is inevitable, Aboriginal journalist Stan Grant has said as he confirms he is thinking "very carefully" about ...

Cancer Council NSW says more Indigenous workers needed in light of disparity in health outcomes  - Cancer Council NSW says more Indigenous workers needed in light of ... The research, published in the Medical Journal of Australia , analysed data ...

Aboriginal painter, 105, happy to make her mark  -  Australian artist Loongkoonan only began painting aged about 95, little more than ten years on her works have electrified the indigenous art ...

The Gap Day 2016: Health Equality For All Australians  -  Indigenous Australians have higher mortality rates. Specifically those who has cancer and other chronic illnesses – most probably because of unequal ...

Past and present merge in museum's Encounters exhibition  - At present, however, the shield and spears are in a major exhibition at the National Museum of Australia . Encounters: Revealing Stories of Aboriginal  ...

Yiwarra Kuju: Australian Aboriginal Art at Moscow's Artplay  - It is an international travelling exhibition presented by the National Museum of Australia that lets senior and emerging Aboriginal artists and traditional ...

Same-sex, Same dates: When Will Australia Get A Gay Reality Dating Show?  - Representing LGBT people on reality television in Australia has had a tepid past. While its few and far between, Big Brother remarkably stands aside ...

Economy grows - but is it as good as it looks?  - the growing economic pie is being shared among more people . Indeed, Statistics New Zealand's figures show real national disposable ...

New eye chart to help prevent sight loss in elderly: New Zealand researchers  - A new eye chart test could help save the eyesight of elderly people , New Zealand researchers involved in its ...

Get ready ladies, Maori TV's Game of Bros is here  - There's much more to Maori TV's new shirtless warriors than just ... new take on reality TV is the brainchild of New Zealand -Samoan actresses ...

Let's have two flags: One for Maori and one for New Zealand  -  The New Zealand flag is officially recognised, and the tino rangatiratanga flag is recognised as the preferred Maori flag used for special occasions.

Ngāti Whātua take strong stance against p-drug  -  This comes as Housing New Zealand faces a rapidly growing epidemic of P-contaminated houses. Of the 67,000 of its properties, 400 are ...

New Zealand's flag referendums raise the topic of identity  -  New Zealand became a colony in 1840, when the indigenous Maori people signed the Treaty of Waitangi with British representatives. In 1907, New ...

Makeda Wirangi takes the modelling world by storm  -  Today, Makeda gives her first New Zealand interview to Māori Television. The 20-year-old, who moved with her family to Melbourne two years ago, ...

Indonesia cannot ignore its Papuan problem  - Since West Papua's integration into Indonesia in 1969 through a United Nations-sponsored people's referendum — a process considered deeply ...

Health fears force government-church cooperation in Papua  - Children play at St. John Church in Samenage in Indonesia's Papua ... She arrived in an area in the throes of a health calamity — some 60 people , ...

Papua New Guinea island commune seeks volunteers to help pick coconuts  - The Mailulu tribe in Papua New Guinea is seeking ten plucky volunteers to ... The tribe is looking for people to arrive during the dry season, between ...

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