Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Education and health are most important issues in Australia , new poll finds  -  Australians are more positive about the benefits of immigration but education and health and the most important issues facing the country today, ...

Australia's successful gun reforms could inform US policies, researchers say  - A new study from Australia shows how the country's sweeping gun law ... have again presented Australia as an example of successful gun reform. ... it seems ideology and politics are delaying standard public health measures,” ...

Mandatory reporting' of suspected child abuse is a mad, bad idea  - In 2010, those in the US received 3.3 million reports of possible child abuse, while in New South Wales, Australia , 10 per cent of all children had been ...

Growing a healthy future with traditional Aboriginal foods  - A healthier Australian diet could include some of the foods Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have used for millennia, if a South Australian  ...

The rate of all suicides and homicides in Australia has declined since the gun buyback  - The rate of all suicides and homicides in Australia has declined since the ... with an initial spike in suicide deaths immediately following the buyback ...

Local Government Association members support marriage equality  - The Australian Local Government Association have passed a motion at their ... to the Marriage Act to achieve marriage equality for same sex couples.

Adam Lambert joins The X Factor Australia as a judge  - Adam Lambert has announced that he's the third and final celebrity to take to the judging panel on Australia's own version of The X Factor this year.

7 things Vote Compass reveals about Australians ' views on same-sex marriage  - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has promised to hold a national vote on same- sex marriage if the Coalition is re-elected, while Labor leader Bill ...

Australian military cadets were 'forced to rape each other'  - A public inquiry into child sex abuse in Australia started today where ... he had been raped by older recruits and staff and forced to rape other recruits.

Tackling Indigenous family violence needs more than band-aid solutions  - Many Indigenous communities have been enduring family violence crises with ... The majority of Australia's Indigenous population reside in the latter.

Liberal candidate Ben Willis threatens people who use term Invasion Day  - As I also commented on Facebook that same day: " Australia Day is also a celebration of the nation's Indigenous heritage and how the first peoples of ...

1 in 5 Aboriginal children are growing up away from their parents  - Too many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are separated from their families, with one in five living in alternative care. One third of these children are placed with non-indigenous carers. 

Nova Peris misses out on AFL diversity job to Recognise's Tanya Hosch  - Hosch was the driving force behind the creation of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and the Australian Indigenous Governance ...

Federal Court grants native title to Indigenous group  - The Federal Court of Australia has formally recognised the Indigenous people of central Queensland as the traditional owners of the land.

Human rights failures say a lot about our government  - The economic and social rights of Indigenous Australians remain unfulfilled across health, housing, employment and education. Indigenous  ...

Morrison says Christians also face bigotry  - Treasurer Scott Morrison says conservative Christians who oppose same-sex marriage face bigotry similar to LGBT Australians . The government ...

Family upset Māori girl's photo 'stolen'  - An 11-year-old girl is the latest to have her image used and sold on an American arts website featuring Māori images on products. Her family says it's ...

US arts website removes Māori images  - Shower curtains, cushions and t-shirts featuring Māori portraits and images of a shrunken Māori head (mokomōkai) have been removed from sale on ...

Punks unite for West Papua  - He admitted before he was contacted last year he had no idea what the people of West Papua were going through. “I was pretty horrified,” he said.

NZ seafood firms rebel against sanctuary plan - It follows action lodged in the High Court in late March by the Maori fisheries body, Te Ohu Kaimoana, based on concerns that the proposal breaches ...

Karakia threatened?  -  Maori prayers could be banned from the classroom if campaigners succeed in their bid to remove religious instruction from state schools, an academic ...

Shower curtain site stealing Maori IP  - Singer Moana Maniapoto says the people behind a website selling historic images of Maori printed on to shower curtains are plagiarists and ...

University focus on Maori smoking  - The first is a head to head trial that will use more than 2000 Maori participants from the Lakes District Health Board region to compare the effective use ...

The World We Live In As LGBT Travelers  - So as the summer travel season officially kicks off, here is a new summary of those ... Alternatively, New Zealand grants full equality across the board.