Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Men best at talking men out of domestic violence  - No one is better at convincing a man to end domestic violence than a fellow man, according to an Australian expert. “Research shows that men listen ...

Family violence driving youth homelessness: service providers  - As Australia marks Youth Homelessness Matters Day, service providers hope ... were often seen as 'peripheral or incidental' victims of family violence .

A very simple lesson  - in what Indigenous people want. Australians are, in the main, not interested in revisiting the date of Australia Day, for much the same reasons.

A child custody battle gone horribly wrong  - Only the hardest of the hard-hearted could fail to be moved by what happened to Sally Faulkner last May. After agreeing to allow her two young children, aged four and six, to travel to Beirut to holiday with their father, she was told by him, via Skype, that they were not coming home. Ms Faulkner had separated

Deaths in custody: Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up  - Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who ...

Number of Koori students graduating from Victorian high schools rises  - But the Koori student from St Patrick's College in Ballarat pushed on – and last year became the first person in his family to complete high school.

We are the forgotten people': the anguish of Australia's 'invisible' asylum seekers  - Nearly 29,000 asylum seekers are in Australia on temporary 'bridging visas'. ... remain locked in desperate poverty and with no idea what their futures hold. .... For all of the heat and light over Australia's immigration policies, BVE ...

Minister pledges rush to boost aid for youth  - The West Australian reported yesterday that eight young people from ... In response to calls for more suicide prevention resources, Ms Mitchell said ...

Australia's first Diversity Expo -  Australia's first Diversity Expo to take place at Exhibition Centre ... “When you're gay , you never know where you'll face discrimination. It could be on ...

Actor and Aboriginal elder Uncle Jack Charles refused taxi in Melbourne, again  - Artist Ibrahim Koç, who is working on an art project about similarities between Aboriginal Australians and Turkey's Yörük people, was with Charles at ...

Aboriginal public servants on their own on pay, says govt  - The AHL workers, most of who staff overnight hostel accommodation for Indigenous people in regional and remote Australia , are the worst-paid ...

Indigenous prison rate is a national crisis, and our international shame  - This means changing laws that disproportionately affect Indigenous people, such as mandatory sentencing in Western Australia and paperless arrest ...

Jail rates send indigenous people to 'broken, bleak future'  - Labor's star Senate recruit Patrick Dodson says Australia's criminal justice system is propelling Aboriginal people into a “broken, bleak future” and has ...

Australia facing the same suicide crisis as Canada's native communities, says mental health expert  - Adele Cox talks to Stan Grant on The Point about Indigenous suicide in the ... “ Aboriginal Suicide in Australia has been like an epidemic and Nigel ...

Telstra's same sex marriage backdown could see its brand value take a hit  - In the past few years, corporate Australia has thrown its support behind the issue and the LGBT community, from Qantas to ANZ, Medibank and ...

A prince and a farmboy fall in love in this new LGBT children's book  - A prince and a farmboy fall in love in this new LGBT children's book ... The authors, who both currently reside in New Zealand , hope that the story book ...

Ōrākei Volcanoes take steps to curve obesity  - A report released by Healthy Auckland Together shows that one in five Māori children are obese, and almost half of Māori adults are obese.

Ngapuhi elder Kingi Taurua steps down from Waitangi welcome on Te Tii marae  - The Maori elder that banned the Government from Te Tii marae on Waitangi Day has stepped down from the annual welcome. Ngapuhi kaumatua ...

Maori health trust gives patients access to private therapy  - A new partnership between a not-for-profit Maori health trust and a private health centre, both in Invercargill, is allowing GPs to not only refer patients ...

Push to improve Maori health  - A new partnership between Ngati Ranginui iwi and the Western Bay of Plenty Primary Health Organisation is set to tackle Maori health issues head on ...

ENZIE raps about NZ towns in viral video  - Hauwhenua Thomas Tainui Kirkwood (Tainui), who goes under the name of ENZIE recently shared a rap video to Facebook which has received a lot ...

Tainui-Waikato release their first iwi education strategy  - In a first, Waikato-Tainui have signed an education covenant with some mainstream secondary schools within its wider region. Te Arataura chair says ...

Maori ward polls racist  - Why is it Government that when a council resolves to establish a Maori ward, that decision goes to a binding petition and a poll. Other wards that ...

Vulnerable babies missing out on health visits  - The majority of babies who are not getting visits from doctors and midwives in their first year are Maori , Pacific Island or poor, figures show. Under New ...