Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

More than third of sexual assaults, homicides linked to domestic violence , ABS data shows  - More than a third of sexual assaults and homicides recorded in Australia last year were domestic violence -related, according to new figures released ...

Childbirth education upgrade could help cut rate of medical interventions: experts  -  Medical experts argue there is a need for a drastic rethink towards childbirth education in Australia . Professor Hannah Dahlen, a professor in ...

Australia has world's second highest melanoma rates  -  Australia has world's second highest melanoma rates ... be diagnosed, according a major skin cancer report from the Australian Institute of Health and ...

Mick shares his battle with bipolar  - SANE Australia will target Orange as one of 155 communities in a campaign to ... Complex mental illness includes bipolar, schizophrenia, borderline ...

Call for more Indigenous people to help manage homelands  - Scientists are urging the Federal Government to help more Indigenous ... Ecologist and Research Fellow Sean Kerins from the Australian National ...

Without Video Evidence, Australians Find It Hard To Believe That Black Lives Matter  - As the death of Ms Dhu shows, the same shift is yet to occur in Australia , writes Amy McQuire. ... But for Aboriginal Australia , this is a common story.

West Australian plan favours large indigenous communities - The West Australian government will entice Aboriginal families away from the smallest of the state's 274 remote communities by upgrading services ...

Aboriginal mothers 17 times more likely to die from homicide  -  Aboriginal mothers 17 times more likely to die from homicide, WA study ... The Telethon Kids Institute analysed West Australian data about deaths from ...

Cardiac Rehabilitation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Western Australia  - Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Australia. Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) ...

Sydney's Indigenous communities are being forced out by gentrification -  Sydney's Indigenous communities are being forced out by gentrification ... A large portion of Sydney's Indigenous community now lives in south-west and .... needs of one of Australia's most vulnerable communities are being ignored.

Echuca-Moama songwriter Benny Walker inspired by his home town  - Grandfather Archie is an indigenous Australian from the region's Yorta Yorta clan, renowned as a shearer and guitar player who still, at the age of 88, ...

Gay former student speaks out on Safe Schools  - The Safe Schools Coalition Australia , which runs the program, said on its website it offers a “suite of free resources and support to equip school staff ...

Brisbane unveils new rainbow footpath to promote inclusion and diversity  - LGBTI citizens and their allies in Brisbane, Australia , has a good reason to celebrate ... our similarities unite us, where we value our lesbian, gay , bisexual, transgender and ... This is not the first rainbow footpath installed in Australia .

Roddenberry Would Approve Of Gay Sulu, Son Says  - “I think he would be 100 percent in favor of a gay character in Star Trek,” ... in an interview this past week during a “Beyond” premiere in Australia .

Liberal lose lawmakers, Australian PM to name more conservatives in new cabinet  -  Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday said he will ... vote this year on whether Australia should recognize same-sex marriage.

The End of AIDS' in Australia ? Don't Be Misled  - Another potential factor driving HIV figures could be the stigma around gay identity. Australia's LGBT community continues to suffer the brunt of new ...

Dementia vaccine may be just years away  - Essentially that's what happens in people who get Alzheimer's or dementia is they have lots of these broken down proteins in the brain. "Essentially ...

LGBT Visitors to Israel Remain Longer, Spend More Money Than Other Tourists  - Colin Michael Hall from New Zealand . It was given to 167 tourists at information centers, the Hilton Hotel beach and at an LGBT party held at the ...

New Zealand director Taika Waititi takes a 'Wild' road to success  - The New Zealand -born writer-director had just been inducted in the ... Waititi, whose father is Maori , talked to the Cap Times about the importance of ...

In New Zealand , Lands and Rivers Can Be People  - Chris Finlayson, New Zealand's attorney general, said the issue was resolved by taking the Maori mind-set into account. “In their worldview, 'I am the ...

Heritage New Zealand charges dropped against Marlborough landowners Haysley and Phillip ...  - Heritage New Zealand withdrew charges against Haysley MacDonald and ... Dr Peter Meihana, a lecturer in Maori history at Massey University and ...

We need to talk about how white the NZ Olympic team is  - That could be the New Zealand Olympic Committee's motto as they put the ... Around a fifth of the population identifies as Maori or Pacific Islander.

High rates of death from heart disease for Maori and Pasifika  - A new study shows major ethnic inequalities in the risk of death from heart diseases in New Zealand with Maori and Pacific people having the highest ...

Better health care needed for Maori and Pacific people in NZ  - A new study shows major ethnic inequalities in the risk of death from heart disease in New Zealand , highlighting much higher rates of death for Maori  ...