Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Does Australia have some of the highest rates per capita of fetal alcohol syndrome ...  - Data from the Lililwan project in the Fitzroy Valley of Western Australia show that 120 per 1000 children, or 12% examined by the multi-disciplinary team of health professionals had physical features and neurodevelopmental impairment consistent with FAS or partial FAS. In 127 of the pregnancies studied, 55% of the mothers drank during pregnancy.

Not Content With Wrecking The Environment, Greg Hunt Is Now Desecrating Sacred Sites  - In May next year the Australian public is scheduled to vote on whether our Constitution should be amended to recognise Indigenous Australians .

Aboriginal Australian Man Shares Racist Messages He Regularly Receives On Grindr  - The Yolngu is group of Aboriginal people who originally inhabited north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia . Because of his ...

71-Year- Old Man Becomes World's First HIV Patient With Alzheimer's  - A 71-year- old man became the first HIV patient with Alzheimer's disease, the researchers from Georgetown University have found. The study ...

Older and Casual Workers at Risk of Redundancies  - A new report has found that older Australians and casual workers of all ages have a higher likelihood of being laid-off, and struggling to find new jobs.

Breaking the poverty cycle, one snip at a time  - By doing five days of cutting in the Philippines we can really skill them well, and while we can't do that in Australia , we now know that we teach people ...

The new way to beat the market: Go LGBT  - The bank took 270 companies with openly LGBT staff as leaders or senior managers and compared their performance to a stock index tracking North America, Europe and Australia, because most of the LGBT companies Credit Suisse could identify were in one of these three regions.

Vision 2020 helps Kalamunda residents see the future   - It is the first survey of its kind to map the prevalence of vision impairment and blindness in both indigenous and non- indigenous Australians .

End Aboriginal cult of victimhood  - Further, I write as a part- Aboriginal Australian . I do not believe that this ancestry makes my opinion more valid than anyone else, but in a world ...

Public art celebrates Indigenous histories  - It's known nationally as one of the key, if not the key hub, of Indigenous activism. It has been the site for many positive initiatives in the Australian  ...

Plan to increase cannabis penalties to match harder drugs under attack  - Dr David Caldicott, a drug and alcohol expert from Australian National University, said increasing penalties for cannabis possession had no ...

How do you buy Indigenous Australian art ethically?  - Cowboys, conmen, chancers and fly-by-night gallerists would swoop into the most remote parts of Australia and return with a haul of dot paintings, obtained by methods fair and foul.

From the sublime to the stupendous  - Then, out across the vast, dusty, smoky, desert with Australia's indigenous peoples. Next, the lick of fire, which comes first to destroy, then to purify and ...

Not Content With Wrecking The Environment, Greg Hunt Is Now Desecrating Sacred Sites  - In May next year the Australian public is scheduled to vote on whether our Constitution should be amended to recognise Indigenous Australians .

Huawei and Clontarf Foundation bring tech to young indigenous students  - A new partnership has been announced between Huawei Australia and the Clontarf Foundation 'to help deliver its successful education programme ...

Mike King calls for mental health overhaul  - Last year 564 people committed suicide in New Zealand - that's the highest figure ever recorded. Are you affected by an issues in this article?

Drug war profiling decried  - The former New Zealander of the year told a Sunday television talk show that young Maori men in particular get caught by laws that criminalise the ...

Early help critical for cot death prevention  - That's one of the messages coming out of a seminar on ways to cut down on the incidence of sudden unexpected death in infancy among Maori .

New Zealand Māori Council Wants to Move Forward  - The New Zealand Māori Council has elected a new sole Chairman. Sir Taihakurei (Eddie) Durie was voted to chair the council at the weekend.

Māori keen for doctors and healers to work together  - Latest research shows that Māori are keen for traditional rongoā Māori ... a Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Māori health postdoctoral ...

Hariata among winners of 28 Maori Battalion scholarships  - Hariata among winners of 28 Maori Battalion scholarships ... qualities that earned the battalion an honoured place in New Zealand history, she says.

New ideas' needed on Māori health  - The Public Health Association wants to change the conversation about why Māori have worse health outcomes than other New Zealanders .

Papua named worst region for income equality, Babel the best  - The vast, mineral-rich province of Papua has the worst income equality in ... run by Freeport and others, while people are still living very traditionally.

Manus Island detainees plead: anywhere but Papua New Guinea  - He claims that we caused to damage the reputation of Manus people ... We are 100% happy to leave this country as soon as possible not to damage ...