Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Inquiry warned of Indigneous jail wave  -  Australia faces a 'wave' of young Aboriginal people going to jail unless ... It is estimated more than one in eight indigenous women drink at high-risk ...

Lachlan Macquarie was no humanitarian: his own words show he was a terrorist  - Macquarie is the Australian leader who used terrorism and slaughter to ... were among the Aboriginal men, women and children Macquarie ordered ...

Indigenous Australians and African Americans deserve a 'sentencing discount'  -  Indigenous people living in Australia in 2016 are 13 times more likely than non- Indigenous Australians to be imprisoned. African Americans are six ...

Boosting Indigenous -only services alone won't end Aboriginal family violence  - UNSW Australia provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. ... But boosting Indigenous -only services won't solve the Aboriginal family ...

Deadly diseases and colonisation brought by Europeans destroyed early Americans and ...  - This study could also point out whether European colonisation also affected Aboriginal Australians and whether they met the same fate as ancient ...

How to reform primary health care to close the gap  -  There are 31 primary health network boundaries across Australia , managed by ... The new Health Care Home trials will also involve Aboriginal health ...

Generation Less: How Australia is cheating the young  - I don't believe Australians want that. I think we want to be a country that does right by all its people; a community that can take care of the old without ...

Mums' excessive drinking linked to suicides in remote communities  - The published rate from the only Australian population study in Western Australia's Fitzroy Valley is one in eight, but that was a conservative figure.

10 of military spend could fight poverty - But 10 per cent of the spend could cover the costs of global goals aimed at ending poverty and hunger in 15 years, the thinktank estimated.

Gay couples add their voice to the marriage equality campaign in Australia  - Australia has undoubtedly fallen behind in achieving equality. ... We stand with Australia's LGBT youth because we believe every place should be ...

Want to Lose Weight? Eat More Protein  - 18 in the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, eating more protein-rich foods like beef increases older obese adults' physical function, helping ...

Indigenous veteran to be reunited with Vietnam war armoured personnel carrier  -  Australia's first Indigenous Returned Services League (RSL) Club will soon be able to honour one of its former soldiers with a piece of war history.

Deadly diseases and colonisation brought by Europeans destroyed early Americans and ...  - This study could also point out whether European colonisation also affected Aboriginal Australians and whether they met the same fate as ancient ...

Closure of bush court near Uluru 'will hit Indigenous community'  - Remote court sittings, or “bush courts”, are held on varying timetables in remote regions of Australia where it is difficult for people to get to a central ...

Jack Manning Bancroft's indigenous program to go international  - The founder of Australia's successful indigenous high school mentoring program, Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, says he's planning to ...

Be Accessible bridging employment gap for students with disabilities  - Statistics New Zealand's latest disability survey showed 24 per cent of New Zealanders identified as being disabled and of that number, 61 per cent ...

Generic apology an injustice" to past generation Te Reo speakers  - An acknowledgement of the issue is included in the Maori Language Bill ... Maori have have profited far more from the colonisation of New Zealand  ...

Commercial use of water - who pays?  - " New Zealand has a reputation for being a very pluvial country, one in ... Maori Council chair Maanu Paul said the government was wrong saying no ...

There is nothing new about Maori 'privilege'  - From the late 1970s, claims that Maori were being privileged over and above other New Zealanders became more frequent. The creation of the ...

Crown acknowledges its role in te reo Māori struggle  - The Māori Development Minister will move an amendment to the Māori Language (Te Reo Māori ) Bill today to acknowledge that the Crown's past ...

UN concern at Maori in prison  - The United Nations Human Rights Committee has criticised New Zealand's record on Maori unemployment, imprisonment, the foreshore and seabed ...

West Papua Warriors aim to take their mission to the United States  - Even here in PNG, the whole West Papua issue is kinda brushed under the rug." "We just want people to know what's happening, and hopefully once ...

Papua `s railway development to start in second half of 2016  -  Papua `s railway development to start in second half of 2016 ... The president called on the people of Papua to adopt a patient approach while awaiting ...

Referral to Waikato can slow speed of treatment  - It is less common among younger people and Maori. Therefore our younger population, lower life expectancy and high Maori population make bowel ...