Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Western Australians 'half as likely to seek crisis support'  - NEW data shows that Western Australians are almost half as likely to ... as the rest of Australia , despite having one of the highest suicide rates in the ...

Tablets best shopping device for 55 and older  - The UK has more tablets (60 per cent), compared to the US (57 per cent) or Australia (54 per cent), and we use it for shopping more frequently (34 per ...

Australia's first and only indigenous hatted chef shares his passion about the food of his youth  - CLAYTON'S earliest memories in the kitchen were watching his mum whip up something delicious, “usually from a Margaret Fulton cookbook, ...

How to survive - physically and mentally - on an artist's income  - Life in Australia is expensive and our relatively small and dispersed ... can be just as precarious, and often requires difficult mental or physical labour.

Aboriginal leaders call for greater 2016 Census participation  - Curtin University's Noongar Danjoo presenter and Rivervale resident Neil Coyne was Australia's first Aboriginal wrestler, known as NC Viper, and is ...

NT's alcohol protection orders discriminatory, Court of Appeal told  - The appeal is being fought on behalf of Dennis Munkara, who was homeless and an alcoholic when he stole about $4 worth of food from a supermarket and was issued with the first of three APOs, according to his lawyers.

Teen ploughs new direction in snow for Indigenous athletes  - Her first lesson in what's been a steep learning curve on her road to becoming Australia's first Indigenous Winter Olympian, in one of the Games most ...

Dispute turns deadly as indigenous Brazilians try to 'retake' ancestral land  - A summit of Guarani-Kaiowá leaders after the violent events of 14 June, when one of their community was killed and six others were injured.

Is It Legal To Climb Uluru?  - To the Anangu , Uluru is a sacred site with spiritual significance. They're also concerned about the safety of the climb — nearly 40 people have died ...

How Australia Eliminated AIDS as a Public Health Threat  - AIDS is no longer a public health threat in Australia , officials declared ... mobilization of gay men, sex workers, and drug users following Australia's first ...

AIDS as a fatal disease is over - AIDS rates are so low in Australia now that researchers from two institutes and the Australian Federation of AIDS Organizations ...

BlackLivesMatter hits Australia  - Both the Sydney and Melbourne marches were in solidarity with the US movement but also highlighted issues with Australia's treatment of indigenous  ...

Medal recognition for 'impressive and imaginative work'  - It is fitting that the Australian Historical Association recognised Dundalli's historical significance in the midst of national celebrations of Aboriginal  ...

Call for more services and professionals to combat suicide in regional Australia  - A leading mental health expert is calling on Federal MPs and Senators to get more health professionals and services to regional ...

West Coast residents 'sick of burying people ' after suspected suicides  - The fact that there are more suicides in New Zealand than deaths from drowning and car crashes combined means our fire brigade are more likely to ...

Papua New Guinea: interactive drama as a tool to lessen suffering  - In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, hundreds of people are killed or displaced due to tribal conflict each year. Ongoing violence has caused ...

Give Papua more freedom  - The fact that Papuan people have to risk arrest and jail sentences on treason charges to simply exercise their freedom of expression will only ...

Rates remission policy for Maori land considered  - Some Maori land was listed as abandoned, which allowed rates to be ... a policy was causing "significant hardship for the local Maori population '' and ...

NZ baseballers in training mode ahead of World Champs - Two New Zealand baseball teams are preparing to depart for their ... and includes a surge of ballplayers represented Maori and Pacific Islander ...

Smokefree campaign uses text to help smokers quit  - around 550,000 people smoke daily in New Zealand , which is about 15 percent of the adult population, and the figure is as high as 40% for Maori .

Māori Language Policy  - For its part the New Zealand Māori Council considers the restoration of Māori group housing should be recognised as a necessary step for the revival ...

Home ownership gets much tougher for Maori  - According to figures released by Statistics New Zealand , 42.3 per cent of Maori in Whanganui lived in resident-owned homes - the rest lived in ...