Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Depression and asthma among biggest health threats to Australian youth: report  - But in Australia , chronic and non-communicable diseases were responsible for 80% of the poor health experienced by young people aged 10-24, ...

A Definitive Answer to Whether You Can "Make Up" Sleep  - There is a universal, scientific consensus that seven to eight hours of sleep is necessary for optimal health . Lack of sleep over time can lead to an ...

Self-harm is one of the biggest killers of young adults, experts warn as they call for urgent change  - The report's lead author, Professor George Patton, of the University of Melbourne, Australia , claimed that addressing global health is the most pressing ...

Cosmetic Surgery Rules Get Tougher In Australia  - Tough new guidelines are in store for Australia's burgeoning cosmetic industry. A major crackdown by the Medical Board has introduced a host of ...

Helping Older Women at Risk of Poverty  - It comes in response to what CAPPA calls a “hidden epidemic” – that one in three Australian women over 60 are living in permanent income poverty  ...

Australian election 2016: Shorten tells Greens they're 'dreaming' on partnership – politics live  - He says the note is old , and Labor doesn't have a housing affordability ... 96% will either be better off, particularly older Australians and women and ...

Geraldine Roman to be Philippines' first transgender politician  - The Philippines is set to elect its first out transgender person to public office in a breakthrough for the predominantly Catholic country's LGBT  ...

AIDS Candlelight Memorial this Sunday  - The state representatives of the National Association of People Living with HIV Australia invite everyone to attend this important community event.

ACCC action sees reseller banned from entering indigenous communities  - As well as undertaking not to enter indigenous communities, Anni and ... Australian Consumer Law wherever they are trading, including Indigenous  ...

Stranded on both sides of the colour bar BOOKS  -  Indigenous bands of that tumultuous era had whitefellers as musicians, ... inner landscape of aboriginality and spirituality in contemporary Australia .

Ghenoa takes out prestigious Keir Award DANCE  - The awards, sponsored by the Keir Foundation, Carriageworks and Dancehouse, with the Australia Council, is the only award in Australia that ...

Warning for grandparents: infection could put you and your grandchildren at risk  - The pneumococcal vaccination is available to all Australians aged 65 and over, Indigenous Australians over the age of 50, and Indigenous Australians  ...

Northern Australia plan about balancing competing interests says Shorten  - Labor yesterday kicked off its campaign, announcing it would provide 400 additional scholarships over four years to help Indigenous Australians  ...

Aurukun teachers evacuated after alleged carjacking in Indigenous community  - the Aurukun campus of Noel Pearson's Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy to Cairns after she became “deeply concerned” for their safety.

Survey of the AOD Knowledge Centre now open  - The Australian Indigenous Alcohol and Other Drugs Knowledge Centre (the Knowledge Centre) is conducting an online evaluation of our web ...

Kiwis 'probably surprised at how low' foreign buyer numbers are - agent  - Many New Zealanders are probably surprised at how low the number of foreign property buyers are, says an Auckland agent after official figures today ...

Family violence rate in NZ 'horrific'  - Imagine if every one of those people was the victim of family violence. ... New Zealand has the worst rate of family violence in the developed world.

Te reo parade to start language week  - Rotorua's Kingi Biddle, a former Toastmasters New Zealand champion, said te reo Maori had a major influence on his speaking and speeches.

Racist backlash won't put off Maori seeking election onto New Plymouth council  - Racist backlash won't put off Maori seeking election onto New Plymouth council ... New Plymouth mayor Andrew Judd's attempt to shine the light on Maori ... was "out of touch with middle New Zealand " and that any Maori could stand ...

Being Maori more than words  -  Maori Party co-founder Dame Tariana Turia is rejecting suggestions fluency in te reo Maori should be seen as a mark of being Maori . The question ...

The breathtaking racism of Seven Sharp and Mike Hosking's white privilege  - The abuse he has had to resign from because he had the courage to push for Maori rights should shame NZ because such naked ignorance makes us ...

Boost for Maori Housing Network  - With housing prices continuing to rocket up, the Government is tipping another $12.6 million over the next four years into Te Puni Kokiri's Maori  ...

Shearer, farmer and former soldier wins premier book award  - Far from succumbing to triumphalist history, Tangata Whenua meets Māori history on its own terms and rejects some of the comfortable assumptions ...

Hosking rant brings out Judd supporters  - Manu Caddie says as a Pakeha he was impressed with the way Mr Judd came to embrace Maori concerns and push for better Maori representation.