Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Say, whatever happened to Clive Palmer's Titanic?  - Australia's gently-accelerating progression from respectful discussion over the best way to ensure Australia's prosperity to an explicit all-out war on the not-wealthy took another decisive step today with the news that the scandal-ridden banking sector isn't ruling out a mining tax-style propaganda campaign against Labor if they don't shut up about holding a royal commission into the financial biz if they gain office.

Dress For Success' Has Transformed The Lives Of 10000 Australian Women  - education aside, the charity belongs to a network of community organisations working on the frontline to respond to Australia's family violence crisis.

Sugary drink tax would save lives: study  - The findings support a push by health experts for Australia to consider such a tax, following the British government's decision to introduce a sugar levy ...

Landmark LGBT Tourism event in South Africa  - Speaking from the event, President of Gay and Lesbian Tourism Australia (GALTA), Rod Stringer said that the convention was a critical platform for ...

Australian children are falling behind in health, education  - An estimated 2.5 million Australians are living below the poverty line, including 602,604 children. The Australia Child Wellbeing Project estimates that ...

Sex and crystal meth: The rise of chemsex  - party and play or PnP, and it's part of a growing subculture in Australia . ... Its popularity follows a rise in smartphone dating apps for gay men, like ...

LGBT Activists Blame Catholic Church for Telstra Dropping Gay Marriage Support in Australia  - Telstra, the largest telecommunication company in Australia , has dropped its public support for legalizing gay marriage in the country, sparking a ...

Parental supply of alcohol to Australian minors: an analysis of six nationally representative surveys ...  - Consumption of more than 4 drinks on one day in the past 7 days occurs for 2.6 % and 18.5 % of 14 and 17 year old Australians respectively [29].

Ageing population presents challenge  - To improve our understanding of life for older Australians , the University of Southern Queensland offers a number of gerontology programs, delving ...

New ABC show 'Cleverman' is about an Aboriginal superhero and we're already hooked off the trailer  - Koen belongs to a persecuted minority, the treatment of which mirrors that of Australia's Indigenous population. It's Koen's job to come to terms with his ...

New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment Rates  - NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) chair Roy Ah-See said the billions of dollars governments poured each year into Australia's prisons had ...

Peter cooks up a dream for Cunnamulla kids MEDIA  - Michael Cook was an inside centre during the magnificent Ella Brothers era in the mid-1980s when Australia dominated world rugby. He was a bloody ...

Grieving Indigenous families lament lack of deaths in custody reform  - The whole policy of the Australian Government, through the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, is to retard the ...

Race row rages on over Gurrumul hospital ordeal  - Remote Indigenous Australia is third-world Australia ,” Grose said. “I think if you flew someone in from the UK or from Europe and said this is where ...

Former top cop named in human rights report  - There were two indigenous persons in the Western Australia state parliament and six in the Northern Territory legislative assembly, which included ...

Pepe Maori missing out on health checks  - MPs got the hard word today that Maori are less likely to receive the post-natal support they are entitled to than other groups of New Zealanders.

NZ research 'proves fluoridation not needed'  -  Maori children living in all areas had poorer dental health than non- Maori children (both fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas). This research shows ...

UN to hear drug addictions as health problem not criminal offence  - A New Zealand delegation is flying to New York to the United Nations General Assembly on the World's drug problem. Māori Health Provider, Hāpai ...

Two Young Māori stars help feed needy children  - Two Māori actors are lending a helping hand to make lunches for needy Auckland school children as part of the Eat My Lunch programme. Both are ...

Maori Language Bill passed  - The bill repeals the Maori Language Act 1987 and establishes an independent entity, Te Matawai, to provide leadership for promotion and protection.

Let Papuans protest peacefully, activists say  - We maintain that we fully support the constitutional right of the Papuan people's freedom of expression," the coalition said in a joint statement ...

Papua New Guinea food shortage leads parents to 'sell children for rice'  - A severe food shortage in the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea has ... Mr Komengi said the drought had divided families and forced some people to ...

These People Have a Mind-Bending Way to Navigate  - This is one of the most striking features of the Yupno language, spoken by around 8,000 people in the Finisterre mountain range of Papua New ...

Rights group describes Indonesian state hypocrisy in Papua  - The military consists of so many units, also go to Papua or sitting there. ... It showed the number last year of more than 1,200 people suffer from ...