Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Mental health: support on the way for regional Australians  -  Australians facing mental health issues will be targeted in a new national campaign to help ensure they get the support they need.

Children's 'horrific abuse recorded by their parents'  - TWO children were tied to trees, locked in cages, had their fingers slammed in car doors and whipped by a father and stepmother who recorded their ...

Young women poisoning themselves using painkillers  - Pharmacists are well placed to help support those suffering from mental health issues, according to Australia's leading pharmacy organisations.

Australian Study Finds Highest Mesothelioma Rate Among Aboriginals , According to Surviving ...  - The native people of Western Australia have the world's highest per capita incidence of mesothelioma and the culprit is likely a long-closed asbestos ...

Classwashing' Australia's racism problem won't make it disappear - Yes, this is the same Hanson who warned of "being swamped by Asians," who declared "Islam has no place in Australia ," complains that Aboriginal  ...

Mr Sulu Comes Out As Gay In Star Trek Beyond  - Hikaru Sulu, as played by John Cho, is shown to be in a same-sex marriage and father to a daughter, according to Australia's Herald Sun, adding “in ...

New Zealand leads the way for Australia on same-sex marriage: Barr  - ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr says New Zealand'€™s approach to same-sex marriage should lead the way for Australia , showing how a ...

Fresh calls to lift ban on gay men donating blood in Tasmania  - We need a more rational blood donor screening process in Australia that screens everyone gay and straight for the safety of their sexual activity, not ...

Bilingual students leaders in te reo Maori  - Maori is from here, Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand, we ... “We are travelling to Australia next term so the research in indigenous  ...

Noel Pearson under fire from all sides over Aurukun school experiment  -  Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has been launching salvos against an array of critics. His Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy school at ...

Aboriginal comedian Karen Edwards says laughter the key to understanding culture  - One of Australia's only Aboriginal female stand-up comedians says laughter can be a powerful tool in promoting understanding between Indigenous  ...

Indigenous Australians unfairly jailed due to racism in legal system  -  Indigenous Australians are being unfairly sentenced for their crimes because of the racist and prejudicial views held by some members of the judicial ...

A perfect blend of indigenous tradition and folk, Black Smoke is a delightfully unique offering from ...  - Poignant in its release shortly before NAIDOC week, Aboriginal musician Emily is a newcomer to the Australian indie folk scene. Lyrically stunning ...

A treaty with first Australians is divisive and dangerous  - In the context of a potential treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, there is no second sovereign state. We are all Australians — indigenous  ...

Native Australian Artwork Featured on Hornsdale Wind Tower  - An announcement made during this ceremony highlighted that indigenous Australian artwork produced by local people will be presented on one of ...

Fabulous Five heading for Canberra to fight the fight NEWS  - It's been an extraordinary election for Indigenous Australia , with five MPs set to take seats in the new parliament, regardless of who forms government.

Parson James coming to New Zealand to support LGBT community  - Parson James coming to New Zealand to support LGBT community ... Parson James was on his way to perform at a Pride festival in New Jersey.

Big gains to be made growing doctors' cultural competence  - Cultural competence and genuine partnership with Maori are important ... students entering medical school proportionate to the Maori population .

Māori place names and what they mean  - Off to Te Puke! Here's episode four of Tēnei, a series Maui Studios put together for us as part of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori . # MāoriLanguageWeek ...

A nation without language is a nation without heart': the Welsh case for compulsory te reo in schools  - This week is Te Wiko o Te Reo Māori , Māori Language Week. Paul Brislen remembers growing up in Wales and why retaining and teaching Māori  ...

Maori relationship still vital as Labour turns 100  - He says the support of Maori has always been important to Labour, even before its pact with the Ratana movement, and even if it has let Maori down at ...

Hitting drug dealers where it hurts  - Our partner agencies in the ISR pilot - Child, Youth and Family, Corrections, Health, specialist family violence NGOs and kaupapa Māori services ...

Uproar prompts name switch reversal  -  Chief executive Paora Maxwell says audiences and supporters can be assured the Maori in Maori Television will remain in the organisation's future ...

Most Māori te reo speakers kōrero with their pre-schoolers  - Most Māori adult te reo speakers living with pre-schoolers speak at least some te reo Māori at home to the children.