Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Who will care for the caring professionals in remote areas?  - But there’s a dark side to the work, the one people talked about quietly or not at all until Gayle Woodford was murdered two weeks ago in the central desert, creating shock waves far and wide. The killing has triggered a furore over whether enough has been done to protect remote area nurses — RANs — from the violence to which they routinely are exposed in troubled, mainly Aboriginal communities.

Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change  -  Only in recent times has the value of Aboriginal early-season burning practices come to be appreciated. This is especially the case in Australia's far ...

A desert journey opens Vincent Fantauzzo's eyes to Indigenous artists  - Kngwarreye is one of five Indigenous artists painted by Fantauzzo, ... Australia last year that were filmed by documentary maker Richard Keddie, the ...

Indigenous rangers call on Turnbull government to double their funding  -  Indigenous rangers across Australia have launched a national campaign to convince the Turnbull government to double its funding for their highly ...

Do Indigenous Australians Actually Have Land Rights?  -  Native title and land rights both recognise the traditional rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to their land. Though very legally ...

Shocking new research shows those over 70 now the most likely to drink daily  -  Older Australians are now the biggest problem drinkers in the nation, while the under 30s age group has contributed to two thirds of the drop in ...

Spotlight on dementia  - Dementia is the single greatest cause of disability in older Australians and the third leading cause of disability burden overall, according to the study ...

Australia's Fastest Growing Segment Of New Business Owners  -  Older entrepreneurs are proving to be the fastest growing segment of new business owners in Australia , with almost 35 percent of all new businesses ...

LGBT activists to protest against Australian Christian Lobby for its "bigotry and fear-mongering" - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender ( LGBT ) advocates are planning to protest the National Conference at Wesley Mission on April 23, which will ...

Airport security wanted to confiscate this man's husband's ashes  - My husband died while we were in Australia .” She just looked at me and said, “I need to take this away.”' Gay marriage is not recognized in Hong ...

The dirty secret of Indigenous Australia  - Nine years after the Howard Government's "intervention" conditions are dire for Indigenous Australians who are "denied consistent running water, ...

Jim Hagan, pioneering indigenous activist, dies at 83  - In 1964, he was a founding member of the Cunnamulla Australian Native Welfare Association, in west Queensland, and among the first local ...

Thousands on hold over elective surgery  - A survey suggests 170,000 people needing elective surgery are not even ... Later this month, the ministry will release new figures giving a more ...

Someone is going to get hurt or die'  - There has since been as many as 20 boats in the area at any given time, with people diving and fishing as the Rena wreck rests as deep as 56m ...

Govt wants minimum wage for disabled workers  - But Sacha O'Dea of the Ministry of Social Development said the permit scheme treated people with disabilities differently from other New Zealand  ...

NZ Land Wars not complusory learning - Minister -  Māori MPs were last month urged to back a petition calling for a national day to commemorate the New Zealand land wars, and support the history of ...

Clearer , brighter 20s, 50s and 100s as new banknotes arrive  - The new notes also use te reo Maori to identify them: Aotearoa - the Maori name for New Zealand ; Te Putea Matua - the Reserve Bank of New ...

Kiwibank important to Maori economy  -  Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox hopes Kiwibank's new part-owners ... The Accident Compensation Corporation and the New Zealand Superannuation ... it was set up the Kiwibank has become important to the Maori economy.

Invisible' Pacific, indigenous presence at UN disappoints NZ team  - Another participant who is also national president of the Māori Women's Welfare League, Prue Kapua, said the league was in the process of writing a ...

Concern over diabetes rates  - Ms Reid believed Rotorua was worse than many other regions, attributing that largely to the high Maori population . "Maori and Pacific Island people ...